Bill Dodge to Join Faculty at George Washington University Law School
TLB is pleased to announce that founding editor Bill Dodge will join the faculty of the George Washington University Law School in August 2024. He expects to teach International Litigation and Arbitration, International Business Transactions, and Contracts, among other subjects. Bill will join GW Law after 29 years with the University of California, including 20…
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The American Society of International Law is hiring for two important positions: Director of Finance and Administration and Director of Programs. These are key positions with a wonderful organization. More information here.
Continue ReadingVisiting Judges at Home and Abroad
Readers may be familiar with phenomenon of visiting judges—where judges from one federal court sit by designation on a different federal court. These judges are typically restricted from holding any other office or sitting on foreign or international courts. But after they leave they bench, they may do whatever they please. The latest issue of…
Continue ReadingMaterial Support of Terrorism Looms over Supreme Court’s Social Media Case
On February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Twitter v. Taamneh. The case concerns an act of violence committed by ISIS in a Turkish nightclub in 2017. In bringing suit in the lower courts, plaintiffs alleged that Twitter, Facebook, and Google aided and abetted ISIS’s attack, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §…
Continue ReadingClimate Change Litigation Is Global
As readers of this blog may know, climate litigation is exploding across U.S. courts. States, municipalities, nonprofits, investors, children, and myriad other plaintiffs are bringing lawsuits against private actors for contributing to global climate change and against government officials for failing to take steps to stop it. I have written on this blog about one…
Continue ReadingRecent Scholarship on Ethnocentrism and Transnational Litigation
Asif Efrat has published Intolerant Justice: Conflict and Cooperation on Transnational Litigation. This interesting book argues that prejudice against foreign legal systems (or “out-group negativity”) plays an important role in domestic political debates over transnational litigation. The author is a political scientist, and the book accordingly focuses on domestic political dynamics and not just on…
Continue ReadingAdmiralty’s Influence on Transnational Procedure
Admiralty was the original site of transnational litigation in U.S. courts. Given the breadth of admiralty jurisdiction, the federal courts developed a number of procedural tools for balancing international comity and practical concerns in these international business disputes. Just because a foreign ship showed up in a U.S. port, for instance, didn’t mean a U.S….
Continue ReadingOne More Thought on Halkbank
The recent Supreme Court argument in Türkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. (Halkbank) v. United States has captivated the transnational litigation community. Experts have weighed in in many forms, including on this blog. In this post, I want to add one more thought that I have not seen raised in this context. Even if the Court decides…
Continue ReadingAmerican Law Institute Launches Second Phase of Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law
Yesterday, the Council of the American Law Institute (ALI) approved a project to complete the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. The project will be chaired by John Bellinger and Harold Koh. Curt Bradley, Bill Dodge, and Oona Hathaway will serve as reporters. The first phase of the Restatement (Fourth)…
Continue ReadingZachary Clopton Joins TLB as Editor
Starting today, I will be joining TLB as an editor. I am excited to take on this new role as I am an avid consumer of the blog, as well as an occasional contributor.
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