Product Description: International courts and tribunals are key actors in international law, both because of their primary dispute resolution function and for their role in developing international law in a more general sense. Their growing number and complexity makes a detailed study of their practice particularly relevant...read more

Product Description: Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective: Theory and Application is the only casebook that examines the principal issues in transnational litigation from a comparative perspective. Each chapter focuses on a particular core problem that all legal systems must address...read more

Product Description: In its Fourth Edition, the book continues to provide the most in-depth coverage of the major topics in international litigation and to retain the features that made prior editions so popular. This timely revision is the most current international civil litigation product on the market, featuring significant changes in the field over the past several years, including: <ul> <li> expanded examination of the Alien Tort Statute, including excerpts and extensive notes on the impact of Sosa and subsequent decisions on human rights litigation </li> <li> expanded, in-depth analysis of personal jurisdiction in international cases, including excerpts and discussion of the First Circuit's important decision in Swiss American Bank case, post-Asahi cases such as Roche Holdings, a jurisdictional veil-piercing decision in Telectronics, expanded treatment of "jurisdictional discovery," and a comparison of jurisdictional principles under federal law and EC Directive 44/2001 </li> <li> updated and comprehensive treatment of sovereign immunity law, including excerpts and discussions of retroactivity after Altmann, the immunity of sovereign-owned entities after Dole Foods, the D...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the strategic and practical aspects of handling a transnational case. It first discusses the essentials, e.g., finding the right lawyer for the job overseas and communicating with foreign clients and lawyers.

Product Description: This book is a tribute by the International Association of Procedural Law to its honorary president, the late Mauro Cappelletti (1927-2004). Mauro Cappelletti can be considered one of the most indeed, perhaps the most outstanding scholars in the field of the judicial process in general and comparative procedural law in particular...read more

Product Description: The ALI (American Law Institute) and UNIDROIT (the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) are preeminent organizations working together toward the clarification and advancement of the procedural rules of law. Recognizing the need for a “universal” set of procedures that would transcend national jurisdictional rules and facilitate the resolution of disputes arising from transnational commercial transactions, Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure was launched to create a set of procedural rules and principles that would be adopted globally...read more

Contains the principal treaties concerning litigation and arbitration, as well as selected American and foreign statutes relating to jurisdiction of courts, recognition of judgments, discovery and secrecy, and claims against foreign sovereigns. Documents range from excerpts of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Act, and the Federal Arbitration Act, to rules of various arbitral institutions, excerpts from British statutes and rules dealing with jurisdiction and judgments, and the confidential documents laws of the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland. Prepared for use with Lowenfield's International Litigation and Arbitration, but may also be used with other course materials.

Product Description: This title identifies and explores recurring problems caused by private cross-border disputes, while presenting the solutions that appear to be emerging, whether in the form of legislation, case law, treaty or Restatement enumeration...read more

Product Description: International judicial assistance, which is reasonably well settled in criminal law, is still finding its way in civil matters. Here is a very useful survey of problems in this area, describing how they are being handled in various jurisdictions worldwide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This work is a clear, easy-to-understand guide to the issues and decision points encountered when planning to resolve, or avoid, a transnational dispute. Each basic concept and all facets of litigation procedure and strategy are explored in the context of multi-jurisdictional interaction; that is, exposing the characteristics of one legal system which may, or may not, be available in the other...read more

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Lawrence Collins, a leading international lawyer, has made a profound contribution to the study and understanding of the Conflict of Laws in England during the past twenty years. He has successfully combined his practice in one of London's leading law firms with unparalleled academic achievement. This volume combines a number of his most widely acclaimed and influential articles on important aspects of the Conflict of Laws, including a reprint of his fascinating 1992 Hague Academy Lectures entitled "Provisional and Protective Measures in International Litigation." Collins has updated and written introductory prefaces for each article to outline the most important subsequent developments since their original publication. Scholarly and incisive, these essays will be compulsory reading for all academics and practitioners interested in international litigation. (view table of contents)

This 1,200 page work is the established text in the rapidly expanding international civil litigation field. This third edition is comprehensively revised and expanded. It includes new sections on international commercial arbitration, choice of law, subject matter jurisdiction, and 28 U.S.C. 1782, as well as comparative materials on the Brussels Convention. The following subjects are treated in depth: Subject Matter Jurisdiction over International Disputes; Personal Jurisdiction over Foreign Defendants; Foreign Sovereign Immunity; Forum non conveniens; Forum Selection Clauses; Lis alibi pendens and Antisuit Injunctions; Legislative Jurisdiction; Extraterritoriality and Choice of Law; Act of State Doctrine; Foreign Sovereign Compulsion; Service of Process Abroad; Taking of Evidence Abroad and Extraterritorial Discovery; Recognition of Foreign Judgments; and International Commercial Arbitration.

Product Description: The contributions in this Liber Amicorum deal with questions of procedural law in an international context. They cover not only problems of international civil procedure and international arbitration, but also questions of administering justice in the domestic civil and criminal law contexts, as well as in the fields of public international law and European Law...read more