Following up on an earlier post, the agenda for the Third Conflict of Laws Annual Workshop (CLAW3) is now available here. TLB ...

A U.S. gas company has sued four Russian defendants in the Southern District of New York for seizing helium containers that the gas company had sent to Russia pursuant to a helium supply contract. One ...

Tomorrow, the Second Circuit will hear argument in United States v. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. to consider whether Halkbank, a Turkish state-owned bank (but not its central bank), is immune from ...

Editors’ Note: This post is cross-published at Just Security. In April, I wrote that Nicolás Maduro was likely to argue that he is immune from prosecution for cocaine importation, weapons possession, ...

The task of deciding whether a forum selection clause should be given effect can be burdensome. A federal court must evaluate whether the clause is valid. It must interpret the clause to determine ...

is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Ninth Circuit’s decision in Cisco has three main holdings. First, the court held that claims for aiding and abetting human rights violations can be brought under ...

The threat to confiscate Russian assets is unprecedented for an additional reason: it involves assets of Russia’s central bank. To be sure, central bank assets have been the target of sanctions in ...

Foreign official immunity refers to rules of international and domestic law that shield foreign officials from suit and from criminal prosecution. These rules are related to the rules of foreign ...

Banana Tree by Arminas Raudys under Pexels License. In a win for international human rights advocacy, a Florida jury has found a U.S. corporation liable for human rights violations committed in a ...

I recently discussed the Fifth Circuit’s remarkably unremarkable personal jurisdiction analysis in a case involving a Montreal Convention claim. Before reaching the constitutional personal ...

The thirty-ninth annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. The survey covers significant cases decided in 2025 on choice of law, party autonomy, ...