Course Description
This course focuses on litigation in U.S. courts containing a foreign element (i.e., when one party is a foreign national or a foreign government or when the injury complained of occurred abroad). The course covers various issues that arise in such cases, such as personal jurisdiction over foreign defendants, forum non conveniens, forum selection clauses, extraterritoriality, discovery, enforcing foreign judgments and arbitral awards, the act of state doctrine, foreign sovereign immunity, and prominently - the alien tort claims act.
Updated: 04/05/2011