Teaching Resources

There are many law school classes that have a connection to transnational litigation, including Civil Procedure, International Business Transactions, Conflict of Laws, U.S. Foreign Relations Law, and Transnational Litigation. The posts below contain links to a wealth of materials - blog posts, primers, cases, statutes, treaties, and charts - that may be incorporated into each of these classes.

Materials

A Plea for Private International Law

In early January 2025, I published a post titled “Teaching Conflict of Laws at U.S. Law Schools.” The post surveyed the course offerings of the top 50 U.S. law schools to see whether Conflict of Laws had been offered during the previous two academic years. Shortly after it went live, I received the following email from…

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Teaching Conflict of Laws at U.S Law Schools

To kick off 2025, I thought it would be interesting to look at how many top U.S. law schools offer a course in Conflict of Laws. While the topics covered here at TLB overlap with those covered in several traditional law school courses—including Civil Procedure, International Business Transactions, and International Law—significant overlap exists with respect…

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Using TLB to Teach Civil Procedure (2024 Update)

If you are teaching civil procedure this fall, TLB can help. This post gathers materials that can complement a standard civil procedure course, whether by providing concise overviews of doctrines, helping to track Supreme Court developments, or suggesting recent cases that can spark discussions of perennial procedural issues. Personal Jurisdiction TLB has a new primer…

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Born & Rutledge, International Civil Litigation in United States Courts (2018) (Aspen)

Bradley, Deeks & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law (2020) (Aspen)

Brilmayer, Goldsmith, O'Connor & Vázquez, Conflict of Laws (2019) (Aspen)

Childress, Ramsey & Whytock, Transnational Law and Practice (2020) (Aspen)

Chow & Schoenbaum, International Business Transactions (2023) (Aspen)

Dean, Skelton & Stephan, Doing Business in Emerging Markets (2022) (Foundation)

Folsom, Van Alstine, Ramsey & Schaefer, International Business Transactions (2019) (West)

Murphy, Swaine & Brunk, U.S. Foreign Relations Law (2023) (West)

Symeonides & Purdue, Conflict of Laws (2024) (West)

Vagts, Dodge, Buxbaum & Koh, Transnational Business Problems (2019) (Foundation)

Zekoll, Collins & Rutherglen, Transnational Civil Litigation (2013) (West)

Bermann, Dodge & Childress, Transnational Litigation in a Nutshell (2021) (West)

Spillenger, Principles of Conflict of Laws (2020) (West)

Hay, Borchers, Symeonides & Whytock, Conflict of Laws (2018) (West)