Background Much of the litigation arising from transnational discovery disputes involves the choice between ordering discovery under local (federal or state) procedural rules and under the Hague ...

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 ...

In Salisbury v. Costco Wholesale Corp., plaintiffs brought a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District ...

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

Signing of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Convention Last week, the D.C. Circuit held in Titan Consortium 1 v. Argentine Republic that suits brought in the ...

In Exxon Mobil Corp v. Corporación CIMEX, S.A. (Cuba), the Supreme Court held that the Helms-Burton Act abrogated the sovereign immunity of Cuban agencies and instrumentalities for suits brought under ...

Last week, in Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments LLC, the Solicitor General (SG) weighed in on whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction to enforce arbitral awards arising from disputes ...

Sociedad Concesionaria Metropolitana de Salud (SCMS) won a Chilean arbitral award against Astaldi. During the arbitration, Astaldi underwent restructuring and merged part of its business into Webuild ...

In 2019, Energy Transfer, the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline, sued Greenpeace International, a Dutch foundation, in North Dakota state court. Last year, Greenpeace responded with an ...

YPF was privately owned from the early 1990s until 2012, when Argentina expropriated a majority of YPF’s common shares following economic decline and rising nationalism. Argentina did not conduct a ...

Editor’s Note: This article also appears in Just Security. Between October and December 2003, interrogators hired by CACI Premier Technology, Inc., along with members of the U.S. military, abused ...

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, ...