Courses Offered:

Civil Procedure
International Litigation
International Arbitration
International Business Transactions

Professional Biographical Information:

Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge is an associate professor and his teaching and research interests include international dispute resolution, arbitration, international business transactions and the Supreme Court.

He is co-author with Gary Born of the book International Civil Litigation in the United States (Aspen Publishers, 2007) and has published numerous articles in journals such as the University of Chicago Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the University of Georgia Law Review and the Journal of International Arbitration. He also regularly advises parties on matters of international dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration). 

In 2008, the Supreme Court appointed Rutledge to brief and argue the case of Irizarry v. United States as amicus curiae in defense of the judgment below. He subsequently won the case, joining the ranks of a select few advocates who have successfully defended a judgment below when the government refused to do so. A former law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Clarence Thomas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit for Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Rutledge regularly files briefs and advises lawyers in matters before the Supreme Court and lower courts.

An accomplished teacher, he has received teaching awards in five of his six years of teaching, including most recently the 2009 John C. O'Byrne Award for Furthering Faculty-Student Relations.

In addition to his academic and legal work, Rutledge regularly comments on public policy matters. He has testified on several occasions before Congress, has regularly spoken to broadcast and print media and has given speeches around the country on matters such as international dispute resolution, arbitration and the Supreme Court. He currently serves as part of the American Arbitration Association's delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration and is a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.

Before entering the teaching academy, Rutledge practiced at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr), where his practice included international dispute resolution and Supreme Court matters, and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where his practice concentrated on international arbitration.

He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University, an M.Litt. in Applied Ethics from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and a J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago, where he served as executive editor of The University of Chicago Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.