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Switzerland, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Society Science's (2009)
Switzerland has the traditional Austro-German representative association procedures. Debate on adoption of other models, given...
 

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Class Actions and Group Litigation in Switzerland, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business (2007)
Class actions have gone global. Foreign parties are no longer a rarity in U.S. class...
 

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How Well Do U.S. Judgments Fare in Europe?, George Washington International Law Review (2007)

Transnational cases have become a prominent part of the litigation landscape in the United States....

 

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Is Transnational Litigation Different?, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (2004)

During the last fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in litigation transcending national...

 

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Human Rights and Civil Litigation in United States Courts: The Holocaust- Era Cases, Washington University Law Quarterly (2002)

This is a comment on an article by Professor Burt Neuborne, in which he describes...

 

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The Proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments: Where We Are and the Road Ahead, European Journal of Law Reform (2002)

In June 1992, the U.S. delegation to the Meeting of the Special Commission on General...

 

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Debates over Group Litigation in Comparative Perspective, International Law Forum Du Droit International (2000)

Under this heading, Duke University School of Law and the Facult6 de droit de l'Universitd...

 

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Utility and Feasibility of Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure: Some German and Swiss Reactions to the Hazard and Taruffo Project (with Gerhard Walter), Texas International Law Journal (1998)

As Judge Vanderbilt pointed out earlier in this century, “judicial reform is no sport for...

 

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THE PROPOSED HAGUE CONVENTION ON JURISDICTION AND FOREIGN JUDGMENTS, TRANS-ATLANTIC LAWMAKING FOR TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION (2003)

In June 1993, a small working group of the Hague Conference on Private International Law...

 

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Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Outside the Scope of the Brussels and Lugano Conventions (with Gerhard Walter), Civil Procedure in Europe (2000)

Despite common roots, litigation practice in the various European countries can be remarkably different. Attempts...

 

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Transnational Litigation in the United States: The Emergence of a New Field of Law (reviewing Gary B. Born & Peter B. Rutledge, International Civil Litigation in the United States (2007)). (2007)

In this essay, I review the fourth edition of Gary Born's International Litigation in United...