John Coyle

University of North Carolina School of Law

John Coyle

John F. Coyle is the Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He is a past chair of the AALS Section on Conflict of Laws and is currently an Adviser for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. His articles on choice-of-law clauses, forum selection clauses, cross-border dispute resolution, and international commercial contracts have appeared in journals such as the Notre Dame Law Review, the William & Mary Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, and the Iowa Law Review. Before entering the academy, he worked as a transactional attorney at Covington & Burling LLP and clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Posts by John Coyle

Idiosyncratic Approaches to Enforcing Choice-of-Law Clauses

On December 16, 2025, the Sixth Circuit decided Andujar v. Hub Group Trucking, Inc. The issue presented was whether the Tennessee Supreme Court had adopted Section 187 of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws as the test for determining whether a choice-of-law clause should be given effect as a matter of Tennessee common law….

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The Most-Viewed TLB Posts of 2025

To celebrate the end of another year at TLB, I wanted to highlight the posts that received the most views in 2025. A Primer on Choice-of-Law Clauses A Primer on Choice of Law Choice-of-Law Methodologies: Updating the List Throwback Thursday: The Tate Letter and Foreign Sovereign Immunity The $24 Billion Judgment Against China in Missouri’s…

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Happy New Year!

TLB will be on break until January 6, 2026. We wish you all the best in the new year!

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