The Most-Viewed TLB Posts of 2025

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To celebrate the end of another year at TLB, I wanted to highlight the posts that received the most views in 2025.

1. A Primer on Choice-of-Law Clauses
2. A Primer on Choice of Law
3. Choice-of-Law Methodologies: Updating the List
4. A Primer on Forum Selection Clauses
5. The $24 Billion Judgment Against China in Missouri’s COVID Suit
6. A Primer on Forum Non Conveniens
7. The CISG and Choice-of-Law Clauses
8. A Primer on Personal Jurisdiction
9. A Primer on Foreign Judgments
10. Prenuptial Agreements and Choice-of-Law Clauses

As this list makes clear, you (our readers) love the Primer pages. This is gratifying because there were no Primers at TLB when we launched the site in March 2022; we gradually added them over the course of the next two years. They now consistently rank among our most-visited pages. We have heard from many law school professors that they regularly assign the Primers to students in classes devoted to Conflict of Laws, International Business Transactions, and Transnational Litigation. We hope that this practice will continue in 2026.

The post by Symeon Symeonides on “Choice-of-Law Methodologies: Updating the List” is also a perennial favorite because it contains a link to an incredibly useful chart detailing the methodology utilized by every U.S. state to resolve conflict of laws relating to torts and contracts. This chart was compiled by Symeon over many years and we are very grateful to him for allowing us to reproduce it at TLB.

The Most-Viewed TLB Posts (Excluding Primers and Charts)

When one excludes the Primer pages, and Symeon’s post on choice-of-law methodologies, the list of most-viewed posts in 2025 is as follows.

1. The $24 Billion Judgment Against China in Missouri’s COVID Suit
2. The CISG and Choice-of-Law Clauses
3. Prenuptial Agreements and Choice-of-Law Clauses
4. Throwback Thursday: The Tate Letter and Foreign Sovereign Immunity
5. Cisco’s Cert Petition
6. Multistate Defamation, Cross-Border Torts, and Choice of Law
7. North Carolina Court Recognizes Ghanaian Proxy Marriage
8. Demystifying Borrowing Statutes
9. Transnational Litigation at the Supreme Court, October Term 2024
10. Enforcing Foreign Judgments in Non-Uniform Act States

The “The $24 Billion Judgment Against China in Missouri’s COVID Suit” post, authored by Bill Dodge, attracted a remarkable number of readers for a post about a single case decided by a federal court in Missouri. Whenever Bill writes about China, many readers in China take an interest.

Another favorite was the “CISG and Choice-of-Law Clauses” post, which was written by Ben Köhler. While we have no way of knowing for sure, we suspect that the post’s popularity is attributable to students preparing for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. That competition always features a problem involving the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). When the problem also features a choice-of-law clause, students flock to Ben’s post to gain a deeper understanding for how these clauses interface with the CISG.

The appeal of “Prenuptial Agreements and Choice-of-Law Clauses,” penned by John Coyle, likely stems from two sources. First, the question of whether a choice-of-law clause is enforceable when it appears in a prenuptial agreement arises with some regularity in the real world. Second, the post discussed the divorce of an NHL hockey player who scored more goals for the Minnesota Wild than any other player in team history.

The post on “Throwback Thursday: The Tate Letter and Foreign Sovereign Immunity,” by Simon Jerome, also proved to be exceptionally popular. Simon offers a concise and readable history of the Tate Letter that shines a light on separation of powers issues in the area of foreign relations. We suspect that this post was assigned in quite a few courses devoted to International Business Transactions and Transnational Litigation.

Bill Dodge’s post on “Cisco’s Cert Petition” rounds out the top five. In this post, Bill discussed a petition for certiorari filed with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to rule that corporations may not be held liable for aiding and abetting violations of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). If the Court were to grant cert and rule in favor of the petitioner, Bill argued that this would “give another blow—perhaps a fatal one—to corporate liability under the ATS.” In light of the significant attention that the ATS has attracted from scholars and practitioners over the past few decades, it is no surprise that our readers were curious to learn more about this case. As a side note, the Solicitor General recently recommended that the Supreme Court grant cert.

The next post, “Multistate Defamation, Cross-Border Torts, and Choice of Law,” was written by Symeon Symeonides. The post first discusses a defamation case brought against CNN by a U.S. congressman. It then provides a thorough overview of how various nations address the complex choice-of-law issues that arise when plaintiffs allege violations of privacy and rights relating to personality. The breadth and depth of this post doubtless played an important role in attracting readers to TLB

The next two posts, “North Carolina Court Recognizes Ghanaian Proxy Marriage” and “Demystifying Borrowing Statutes” were both authored by John Coyle. Reader interest in the first was likely attributable to the fact that proxy marriages are largely unknown in the United States. Reader interest in the second can probably be chalked up to the fact that nobody really understands borrowing statutes.

The final two posts, “Transnational Litigation at the Supreme Court, October Term 2024” and “Enforcing Foreign Judgments in Non-Uniform Act States” were penned by Bill Dodge. One post provided a preview of several Supreme Court cases last term that touched on issues relating to transnational litigation. The other discussed a court decision in Kansas where the judge had to apply that state’s common law rules to determine whether a foreign judgment should be given effect.

Wrapping Up

We never quite know which posts will catch our readers’ eyes. As we move into 2026, however, we will continue to seek out engaging topics in the field of transnational litigation that might not otherwise come to your attention.