John Gotanda is Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Director of the J.D./M.B.A. Program at Villanova University School of Law. His scholarly interests focus on damages in international law and international commercial arbitration. His book Supplemental Damages in Private International Law was published in 1998 by Kluwer Law International, the world's largest publisher of international legal materials. Professor Gotanda's articles have been published in the American Journal of International Law, the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, Law & Policy in International Business, the Michigan Journal of International Law, the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum, and the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. His scholarly writings have been cited by courts, tribunals and commentators, including most recently by U.S. Supreme Court (in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. ___ (June 25, 2008), U.S. courts of appeals for the second, ninth and eleventh circuits, U.S. district courts in Illinois and the District of Columbia, arbitral panels deciding cases under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, and tribunals deciding cases under the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Professor Gotanda has spoken widely on the subject of damages in international law. Last year, he gave a series of lectures on damages at the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law, which was published in 326 Recueil des Cours 73-407 (2007). He also was invited by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law to speak on monetary remedies in international arbitration at Gray’s Inn in London, by the International Chamber of Commerce to speak on the awarding of interest at the 2007 Annual Conference of the ICC World Business Law Institute in Paris, and by Wu Han University in China to speak on the awarding of damages under the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods.

Professor Gotanda has served as an expert on damages for the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. State Department, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the United Nations Conventions on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and the Rapporteur for the Council’s Opinion on Calculating Damages under the CISG. He also is a member of the Academic Council of The Institute for Transnational Arbitration and an Associate Editor of Transnational Dispute Management.

Professor Gotanda received his J.D. from the William S. Richardson School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Hawaii Law Review. Following law school, he was a staff attorney with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then worked as an associate attorney with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and later with Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in Boston before joining the faculty in 1994.

Professor Gotanda is admitted to practice in Hawaii, the District of Columbia and Massachusetts. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law, the ABA Section on International Law and Practice, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the International Law Association.