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.
Cross-Border Discovery of Evidence From Non-Parties
It’s rare for me to read a decision on transnational litigation and conclude that the court paid too much attention to international comity. In a recent order resolving a discovery dispute, though, the Southern District of Florida engaged in what struck me as a completely unnecessary comity analysis. The order seemed to misread the Supreme…
Continue ReadingPersonal Jurisdiction in Tennis Antitrust Case
Many professional athletes compete at the international level, and some have accused the governing bodies of various sports of unlawfully restricting global competition for their services. When athletes bring antitrust claims in U.S. courts, however, it can be difficult to establish personal jurisdiction over foreign sports organizations. In a recent decision, Judge Margaret M. Garnett…
Continue ReadingThe 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…
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