Transnational Litigation at the Supreme Court, October Term 2025
Today is the first day of the Supreme Court’s October Term. This post briefly discusses transnational litigation cases in which the Court has already granted cert, as well as others that are in the pipeline and could be decided this Term. Cases in which the Court Has Granted Cert So far, the Supreme Court has…
Continue ReadingHalkbank and the “Unitary” Executive
Last week, the Second Circuit issued its decision on common law immunity in United States v. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., on remand from the Supreme Court. Ingrid thoroughly summarized the Second Circuit’s ruling earlier this week. This post follows up to flag one further aspect of the decision. As readers know, a central question on…
Continue ReadingHow to Criticize U.S. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (Part II)
[This post is based on a lecture delivered at Wuhan University School of Law on October 15, 2023] There are better and worse ways to criticize U.S. extraterritorial jurisdiction. In yesterday’s post, I discussed some shortcomings of a February 2023 report by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “The U.S. Willful Practice of Long-arm Jurisdiction and…
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