Foreign Law

Optionality in Choice of Law

Choice-of-law clauses are sometimes described as tools for reducing legal uncertainty. This characterization, while correct, is incomplete. In cases where the suit is brought in a jurisdiction other than the one named in the choice-of-law clause, it is sometimes more accurate to think of the clause as an option. Either litigant may, if it so…

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New Book on Foreign Law in Asia

Hart Publishing has just released an important new book on foreign law in Asia, edited by Kazuaki Nishioka. As regular TLB readers might recognize, I am very interested in how courts grapple with the law of foreign jurisdictions. (New paper coming soon!) In the United States, federal courts apply Federal Rule 44.1, under which foreign…

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Vanderbilt Law School
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UC Davis School of Law
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Cornell Law School
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University of North Carolina School of Law
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Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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MKFL
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NYU School of Law
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Vanderbilt Law School
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University of Amsterdam
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Constantine Cannon
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Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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Ben Köhler

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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