Litigation of International Disputes in U.S. Courts analyzes issues pertinent to the expanding field of transnational litigation. With nearly 1,000 pages of revised content, it examines nuts-and-bolts issues and immunity doctrines such as:
• Personal jurisdiction
• Service of process
• Extraterritorial discovery
• Forum non conveniens
• The Convention on the International Sale of Goods
• Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
• Immunity of officials
• Act-of-state doctrine
You''ll find examinations of both systemic and theoretical issues, such as international torts (customary international law), treaties, federal common law, and the political-question doctrine.