Last Friday, Magistrate Judge Paul Kohler (District of Utah) granted a motion for alternative service of process, allowing ...

Over the past several months, three state appellate courts in the United States have examined whether a “talaq” divorce ...

This is just a reminder for those in the DC area that on Thursday and Friday the George Washington Law Review is hosting a ...

Over the past several months, three state appellate courts in the United States have examined whether a “talaq” divorce obtained in another country is entitled to recognition as a matter of comity. In ...

The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act discourages forum shopping in child custody disputes by assigning subject-matter jurisdiction to the court located in the “home state” of the ...

Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), the agencies and instrumentalities of foreign states are generally immune ...

The phrase “without regard to principles of conflict of laws” appears at the end of many choice-of-law clauses: This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of England without regard to its principles ...

Given the difficulties that parallel proceedings create in transnational litigation, there have been repeated attempts to design a multilateral framework to resolve them. A new effort at legal reform ...

Georgia (the country) recently argued in Enka Renewables LLC v. Georgia against the enforcement of an arbitral award that would purportedly violate U.S. public policy. Georgia relied on the U.S.