Hannah L. Buxbaum
UC Davis School of Law
Hannah Buxbaum is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. Her research on private international law and jurisdiction focuses on transnational economic regulation. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the Advisory Committee on Private International Law for the U.S. Department of State. She currently serves as the U.S. member on the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law.
The Proposed Hague Convention on Parallel Proceedings: A Role for Anti-Suit Injunctions?
Given the difficulties that parallel proceedings create in transnational litigation, there have been repeated attempts to design a multilateral framework to resolve them. A new effort at legal reform is currently underway at the Hague Conference on Private International Law, where a working group has published a draft text of a convention on parallel proceedings…
Continue ReadingSecond Circuit: Revenue Rule Does Not Block Fraud Claims by Danish Tax Authority
Two weeks ago, in Skatteforvaltningen v. Markowitz, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision involving one of the less frequently invoked doctrines of transnational litigation: the so-called “revenue rule.” This rule essentially bars courts in one country from enforcing the tax laws of another. As the recent decision indicates, though, it does not…
Continue ReadingUsing TLB to Teach Transnational Litigation (2026 update)
One of TLB’s goals is to compile a set of educational resources for students and teachers. For the past couple of weeks we’ve been publishing updated guides on using TLB to teach different classes (all of which are available at our Teaching Resources page). This post focuses on, well, everything! It describes how teachers of…
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