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The Reluctant Partner: Making Procedural Law For International Civil Litigation, Stephen B. Burbank Jul 1994

Perspectives On Sovereignty In The Current Context: An American Viewpoint, Richard B. Bilder Jan 1994

Discussion After The Speeches Of Jonathan Fried And Gary Horlick, Discussion Jan 1994

Where There Is A Will, There Is A Way: Cooperation In Canada-U.S. Antitrust Relations, Lawson A. W. Hunter, Susan M. Hutton Jan 1994

Discussion After The Speeches Of Stanley M. Spracker And J. Christopher Thomas, Discussion Jan 1994

Discussion After The Speech Of Joel P. Trachtman, Discussion Jan 1994

Coercion Or Cooperation; Social Policy And Future Trade Negotiations, Michael Hart Jan 1994

Sovereignty And Human Rights, Robert F. Drinan Jan 1994

When Sovereignties May Collide: In The Antitrust Area, Joseph P. Griffin Jan 1994

Sovereignty And International Trade Regulation, Gary N. Horlick Jan 1994

Discussion After The Speeches Of Richard B. Bilder And Donat Pharand, Discussion Jan 1994

Conference Opening, Henry T. King Jr. Jan 1994

Discussion After The Speech Of Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Discussion Jan 1994

Discussion After The Speeches Of Joseph P. Griffin And Lawson A. W. Hunter, Discussion Jan 1994

Discussion After The Speeches Of Charles Levy And W.L. Hayhurst, Discussion Jan 1994

Sovereignty And The Regulation Of International Business In The Environmental Area: A Canadian Viewpoint, J. Christopher Thomas Jan 1994

Sovereignty And The Regulation Of International Business In The Environmental Area: An American Viewpoint, Stanley M. Spracker Jan 1994

The Canadian Cultural Industries Exemption Under Canada-U.S. Trade Law, Donald S. Macdonald Hon. Jan 1994

Discussion After The Speech Of The Honorable Donald S. Macdonald, Discussion Jan 1994

Closing Remarks, Henry T. King Jr. Jan 1994

Masthead, Volume 20 (1994) Jan 1994

Cartesian Logic And Frontier Politics: French And American Concepts Of Arbitrability, Thomas E. Carbonneau, Francois Janson Jan 1994

China And The Gatt Agreement On Government Procurement, John Linarelli Jan 1994

Toward An International Fourth Amendment: Rethinking Searches And Seizures Abroad After Verdugo-Urquidez, Eric Bentley, Jr. Jan 1994

International Abductions, Low Intensity Conflicts, And State Sovereignty: A Moral Inquiry, Fernando R. Tesón Jan 1994

Volume 20, Canada-United States Law Journal Jan 1994

The Limitations Of Sovereignty From Nuremberg To Sarajevo, Henry T. King Jr. Jan 1994

Positivism Regained, Nihilism Postponed, Jose E. Alvarez Jan 1994

Promises To Keep And Miles To Go: A Look At Europe Poised Between Two Treaties, Willajeanne F. Mclean Jan 1994

The Hague Evidence Convention: The Need For Guidance On Procedures And Resolution Of Conflicts In Transnational Discovery, John C. Plaster Jan 1994

The Hague Evidence Convention: The Need For Guidance On Procedures And Resolution Of Conflicts In Transnational Discovery, John C. Plaster

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

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As international commercial disputes become more common, United States courts increasingly face difficult issues involved in transnational discovery. Two frequently encountered issues are choosing whether to use the discovery procedures of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Hague Evidence Convention and whether to enforce a discovery order when the order conflicts with a law of the state in which discovery is to occur. Although the Supreme Court has addressed both of these issues, it has left lower courts considerable discretion to deal with these issues case by case. Lower courts, therefore, have not been uniform in their approaches …

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