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Transnational Discovery In The Extraterritorial Application Of U.S. Antitrust Laws, Maria Eugenia Gimenez

LLM Theses and Essays

After World War II, there was a push for economic integration to promote growth and prevent conflict. Multinational corporations became key players, but their mobility and links to different countries created legal challenges, with nations seeking to assert their laws and policies over foreign entities. U.S. courts’ efforts to compel compliance with antitrust laws abroad can lead to conflicts with foreign jurisdictions, especially concerning the disclosure of evidence held by foreign entities. The “effects doctrine” allows U.S. antitrust laws to be applied to foreign conduct if they have intended economic effects in the U.S. Subsequent cases refined this doctrine, considering …

Choice Of Law Issues In International Sale Of Goods Contracts, Bayu Seto Hardjowahono

LLM Theses and Essays

The growing quality and quantity of today’s international sales of goods activities is unquestionably influential and vital to the shaping of current national economies throughout the world.

The present work will explore the issue of choice of law questions in international sale of goods contracts by examining the approaches of the Vienna 1980 Convention, the Hague 1955 Convention and the 1985 Draft Convention. The present work concludes by showing that it is advisable for a forum to use the 2^nd Restatement approach in such a situation because of the degree of flexibility it offers in international trade practices.