Peter

D.

Trooboff

Peter D. Trooboff is Senior Counsel in the Washington office of Covington & Burling LLP and specializes in public and private international legal matters.  He is a former president of the American Society of International Law (1990-92) and an honorary member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.  He served for 26 years on the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law. He is currently a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law.  Together with Professor Arthur von Mehren of the Harvard Law School, Mr. Trooboff served on the U.S. delegation to the Organization of American States’ CIDIP II and he headed the U.S. delegation to CIDIP III. He also served on the U.S. delegation to the Diplomatic Conference in 2005 that the Hague Conference on Private International Law convened at which was negotiated the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements.  Mr. Trooboff received the Manley O. Hudson Medal from The American Society of International Law in 2018 which is “awarded to a distinguished person of American or other nationality for outstanding contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law.”  He received in April 2010 the Leonard J. Theberge Award for Private International Law from the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, which is awarded “to honor persons who have made distinguished longstanding contributions to the development of private international law.”  His Hague Academy general course titled “Globalization, Personal Jurisdiction and the Internet” was published in 2021 as Volume 415 of the Recueil des cours.