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Atlantic Marine: The Supreme Court on Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements
Yesterday the Supreme Court decided Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (S. Ct. 2013). Atlantic Marine was a Virginia corporation with its principal place of business in Virginia. It had a contract with the Army Corps of Engineers to build a child development center at Fort……
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An Update on COCA
Where do things stand with the ratification of the Hague Choice Of Court Agreements Convention? I attended a talk on Friday that outlined where we are and how we got here. I am not going to give the details of the talk or even identify the speakers, but I thought it would be useful to……
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Peter H. Pfund on Federalism and U.S. Participation in Unification of Private Law
I want to draw readers’ attention to interesting remarks by Peter H. Pfund on Federalism and U.S. Participation in Intergovernmental Efforts to Unify Private Law, in 56 Vill. L. Rev. 559 (2011), which I’ve just had the chance to read. Mr. Pfund was an assistant legal advisor for private international law in the Office of……
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New Article on the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
This blog covers two areas: judicial assistance to international courts or arbitral tribunals; and enforcement of international arbitral awards. There is an obvious gap in our coverage: what about enforcement of the judgments of foreign courts? The reason for the gap should be no mystery to lawyers in the field: there is no multilateral convention……