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.
A Primer on Antisuit Injunctions
The antisuit injunction, which blocks a party from initiating or pursuing litigation in a foreign court, is a powerful tool in the judicial arsenal. Courts issue these injunctions, under appropriate circumstances, to prevent the development of parallel proceedings. They can also be used to prevent a party from taking action in a foreign forum intended…
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A recurring challenge in defining the geographic scope of U.S. securities law is how to characterize non-exchange-based transactions in American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). Under the Supreme Court’s Morrison test, such transactions have to qualify as “domestic” to trigger the application of U.S. law. If they don’t, the assumption is that investors would have to litigate…
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