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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

China’s push to internationalize the renminbi (RMB, or yuan) since 2008 has led to the growing share of RMB-denominated bonds in the international bond market. So-called “panda bonds” and “dim sum ...

is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Jamshidi concludes that Iran has a strong claim that terrorism exceptions violate the customary international law rules governing state immunity. Focusing on immunity ...

On March 7, 2025, Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. (Eastern District of Missouri) entered a default judgment for more than $24 billion against the People’s Republic of China and eight other Chinese ...

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 ...