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Forum Non Conveniens, Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, and the Chevron Litigation
Douglass Cassel is Notre Dame Presidential Fellow and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. He was also an advocate for Chevron in proceedings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Views expressed herein are his personal views, and not necessarily those of Notre Dame Law School, Chevron or any other……
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Tinkering with Private International Law as a Response to Alleged Human Rights Violations
Ronald A. Brand is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. Professors Christopher A. Whytock and Cassandra Burke Robertson, have provided a solid discussion of the doctrines of forum non conveniens and the recognition of foreign judgments in their Columbia Law Review article. I have commented on that article in the Columbia……
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Forum Non Conveniens and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Christopher A. Whytock is Assistant Professor of Law and Acting Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. The proper relationship between the forum non conveniens (“FNC”) doctrine and the enforcement of foreign judgments is debatable—but it seems quite clear that the status quo isn’t optimal. The Problem Here’s the problem. Based on……
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Minding The Gap
Cassandra Burke Robertson is Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. The Lago Agrio case may be the most salient case to illustrate the doctrinal gap between the doctrines of forum non conveniens and judgment enforcement, but it is part of a growing trend of “American lawyers outsmarting themselves” by seeking dismissal……
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Symposium: Forum Non Conveniens And Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
I am very pleased to welcome readers to the first ever Letters Blogatory symposium! I got the idea from the folks at Opinio Juris, who do such things regularly and well. The topic of our mini-symposium is the relationship between the doctrine of forum non conveniens and the defenses that a judgment debtor can offer……