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Obtaining Personal Jurisdiction Over Alien Corporations--A Survey Of U.S. Practice, John D. Gleissner, David C. Veeneman, S. Rodgers Wheaton
Obtaining Personal Jurisdiction Over Alien Corporations--A Survey Of U.S. Practice, John D. Gleissner, David C. Veeneman, S. Rodgers Wheaton
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
With the increase in international trade, civil litigation between persons of different nationalities has become increasingly important. Today alien and foreign corporations are being brought before American courts to defend actions arising out of products liability, contract, and tort. There is considerable authority holding alien and foreign corporations amenable to jurisdiction on the basis of a single act or business transaction. The states themselves are affecting international trade since state law is chosen to determine the amenability of alien and foreign corporations to suit in diversity actions in federal court.
This survey presents a cross-section of recent cases and attempts …
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Books Received, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A COMMENTARY ON THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT REVIEW ACT
By Graeme C. Hughes
Toronto: Carswell, Ltd., 1975. Pp. 214. $20.65.
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THE EXPORT TRADE: THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE By Clive M. Schmitthoff
6th ed. London: Stevens & Sons,Ltd., 1975. Pp. 461. $28.75.
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FOREIGN DISINVESTMENT BY U.S. MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: WITH EIGHT CASE STUDIES
By Roger L. Tourneden
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. Pp. 157. $15.00.
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THE GATT LEGAL SYSTEM AND WORLD TRADE DIPLOMACY
By Robert E. Hudec
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. Pp. 399, $25.00.
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS--GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS
By Jack N. Behrman, J.J. Boddeayn, & Ashok …