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Abstention At The Border, Maggie Gardner

Maggie Gardner

The lower federal courts have been invoking “international comity abstention” to solve a range of problems in cross-border cases, using a wide array of tests that vary not just across the circuits, but within them as well. That confusion will only grow, as both scholars and the Supreme Court have yet to clarify what exactly “international comity abstention” entails. Meanwhile, the breadth of “international comity abstention” stands in tension with the Supreme Court’s recent reemphasis on the federal judiciary’s obligation to exercise congressionally granted jurisdiction. Indeed, loose applications of “international comity abstention” risk undermining not only the expressed preferences of …

Dual Regulation Of Insurance, Christopher French

Christopher C. French

Retiring Forum Non Conveniens, Maggie Gardner

Maggie Gardner

When it comes to transnational litigation in the federal courts, it is time to retire the doctrine of forum non conveniens. The doctrine, which allows judges to decline jurisdiction in cases they believe would be better heard in foreign courts, is meant to promote international comity and protect defendant fairness. But it is not well-designed for the former purpose, and given recent developments at the Supreme Court, it is dangerously redundant when it comes to the latter. This Article seeks to demythologize forum non conveniens, to question its continuing relevance, and to encourage the courts and Congress to narrow its …

Rjr Nabisco And The Runaway Canon, Maggie Gardner

Maggie Gardner

In last Term’s RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community, the Court finished transforming the presumption against extraterritoriality from a tool meant to effectuate congressional intent into a tool for keeping Congress in check. In the hands of the RJR Nabisco majority, the presumption has become less a method for interpreting statutes than a pronouncement on the proper scope of access to U.S. courts, a pronouncement that Congress must labor to displace. Besides the worrisome implications for separation of powers, the majority’s opinion was also disappointing on practical grounds. By applying the presumption too aggressively, the Court missed an opportunity to …

Marc Rich: An Expansion Of United States Criminal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Defendants, 6 Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 615 (1984), Debra Pogrund Stark

Debra Pogrund Stark

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The Three C'S Of Jurisdiction Over Human Rights Claims In Us Courts, Chimene I. Keitner

Chimene I Keitner

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Who Decides The Arbitrators' Jurisdiction? Separability And Competence-Competence In Transnational Perspective, John J. Barceló Iii

John J. Barceló III

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My Paper Makes Ssrn Top Ten List, Gabriela Steier

Gabriela Steier

My paper, "THE WTO'S BLIND SPOT: DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD INDUSTRY", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Food Law & Policy eJournal, PSN: Politics of the WTO (Topic), PSN: Politics of the WTO (Topic), SRPN: Agribusiness (Topic), SRPN: Biotechnology (Topic), SRPN: Politics of Food (Topic) and SRPN: World Trade Organisation (Topic).

Ending Judgment Arbitrage: Jurisdictional Competition And The Enforcement Of Foreign Money Judgments In The United States, Gregory Shill

Gregory Shill

Recent multi-billion-dollar damage awards issued by foreign courts against large American companies have focused attention on the once-obscure, patchwork system of enforcing foreign-country judgments in the United States. That system’s structural problems are even more serious than its critics have charged. However, the leading proposals for reform overlook the positive potential embedded in its design.

In the United States, no treaty or federal law controls the domestication of foreign judgments; the process is instead governed by state law. Although they are often conflated in practice, the procedure consists of two formally and conceptually distinct stages: foreign judgments must first be …

State Courts And Transitory Torts In Transnational Human Rights Cases, Chimene I. Keitner

Chimene I Keitner

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Judicial Re-Use:«Codification» Or Return Of Hegelism? The Comparative Arguments In The “South” Of The World, Prof. Michele Carducci

Michele Carducci Prof.

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Idee Di Giustizia E Tradizioni Giuridiche, Prof. Michele Carducci

Michele Carducci Prof.

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Circolazione Coloniale Del Costituzionalismo, Prof. Michele Carducci

Michele Carducci Prof.

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Semantica Storica Dei Formanti Giuridici, Prof. Michele Carducci

Michele Carducci Prof.

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The Central American Constitutional Identity. A Study Of The Constitutional Imitation Phenomenon In The Integration Process Of The Region, Prof. Michele Carducci

Michele Carducci Prof.

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The Central American Constitutional Identity, Prof. Michele Carducci

Michele Carducci Prof.

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Is “Transnational” Constitutional Law Possible?, Prof. Michele Carducci

Michele Carducci Prof.

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Officially Immune? A Response To Bradley And Goldsmith, Chimene I. Keitner

Chimene I Keitner

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