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.
Eletson v. Levona: SDNY Vacates Arbitral Award but Declines to Issue Anti-Enforcement Injunction
An arbitral award that has been vacated by a court at the seat of arbitration can almost never be enforced in other states. But the authority to determine post-vacatur enforceability rests with courts in states where enforcement is sought, not with the vacating court. In a cogent and well-reasoned opinion issued last week, Judge Lewis…
Continue ReadingGreenpeace Anti-SLAPP Suit Blocked by International Antisuit Injunction
In 2019, Energy Transfer, the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline, sued Greenpeace International, a Dutch foundation, in North Dakota state court. Last year, Greenpeace responded with an anti-SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) lawsuit against Energy Transfer in Dutch court. In the latest twist in this lengthy dispute, the North Dakota Supreme Court issued…
Continue ReadingDifferential Targeting of the Forum in Jurisdictional Analysis
The doctrine of “effects” jurisdiction permits a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant when the defendant’s activity outside the forum causes harm within it. It is frequently used in e-commerce cases in which a defendant’s website is accessed by consumers nationwide (or indeed globally). One of the elements necessary to establish jurisdiction…
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