Jennifer Morinigo | March 1, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Signed into law in January, the new law relates to foreign judgments (except for taxes, fines, or domestic relations) and protects against monetary judgments entered in nations whose courts fail to provide due process. From the New Jersey Law Revision Commission’s...
Louise Ellen Teitz | July 28, 2017 | Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws, U.S. Foreign Relations Law
INTRODUCTION Treating internal U.S. conflicts and international conflicts law the same, without distinguishing between them, has always puzzled non-U.S. lawyers and scholars. Europeans often do not understand how we can treat transnational choice of law decisions as...
William S. Dodge | June 13, 2017 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
This essay for the Yearbook of Private International Law discusses the draft Fourth Restatement of Foreign Relations Law on the topic of jurisdiction. The essay describes the Fourth Restatement’s division of jurisdiction into the three categories of jurisdiction to...
Jennifer Morinigo | May 22, 2017 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
At ALI’s Annual Meeting on Monday, May 22, members voted to approve the Tentative Draft No. 3 of the Jurisdiction portion of the Foreign Relations Law Restatement.* New content reviewed and approved at this meeting includes the following in the Jurisdiction draft...
Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan and William S. Dodge | March 31, 2017 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Sections of Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Jurisdiction, Sovereign Immunity, and Treaties, are on this year’s Annual Meeting Agenda. With member approval, these three portions of the project will be completed this year....
