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The Use Of Anti-Suit Injunctions In International Litigation, George A. Bermann
The Use Of Anti-Suit Injunctions In International Litigation, George A. Bermann
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Of the various forms of provisional relief in the context of inter-national litigation, none has sparked as much interest and controversy as the international anti-suit injunction. In many ways the international anti-suit injunction, an instrument by which a court of one jurisdiction seeks to restrain the conduct of litigation in another jurisdiction, resembles more conventional forms of international provisional relief such as the foreign attachment or preliminary injunction. Like them, the anti-suit injunction affords courts an important opportunity to affect the course and significance of litigation abroad. However, such intervention strongly implies – and often actually creates – jurisdictional conflict …
The Devolution Of The Legal Profession: A Demand Side Perspective, Ronald J. Gilson
The Devolution Of The Legal Profession: A Demand Side Perspective, Ronald J. Gilson
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Economic analysis has not played a significant role in the increasingly intense debate over the decline of professionalism among lawyers.Economists' lack of interest in the issue may be understandable. The lawyers' lament is that the legal profession is devolving into the business of law. That this concern has not captured the economists' attention may reflect only that economists do not view the label "business" as a pejorative. If becoming a business means efficiently rendering an important service in a competitive environment, then of what is there to complain?
Lawyers, more directly concerned with maintaining their professional status, would find little …