INTERNATIONAL CIVIL LITIGATION IN UNITED STATES COURTS FOURTH EDITION by GARY B.BORN, Gary Born, Peter B. Rutledge, Gary B Born ISBN 9780735569195, 9780735563070, 0735569193, 0735563071 instant download

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL LITIGATION IN UNITED STATES COURTS FOURTH EDITION by GARY B.BORN, Gary Born, Peter B. Rutledge, Gary B Born ISBN 9780735569195, 9780735563070, 0735569193, 0735563071 instant download

In its Fourth Edition, the book continues to provide the most in-depth coverage of the major topics in international litigation and to retain the features that made prior editions so popular. This timely revision is the most current international civil litigation product on the market, featuring significant changes in the field over the past several years, including:

• expanded examination of the Alien Tort Statute, including excerpts and extensive notes on the impact of Sosa and subsequent decisions on human rights litigation


• expanded, in-depth analysis of personal jurisdiction in international cases, including excerpts and discussion of the First Circuit's important decision in Swiss American Bank case, post-Asahi cases such as Roche Holdings, a jurisdictional veil-piercing decision in Telectronics, expanded treatment of \"jurisdictional discovery,\" and a comparison of jurisdictional principles under federal law and EC Directive 44/2001


• updated and comprehensive treatment of sovereign immunity law, including excerpts and discussions of retroactivity after Altmann, the immunity of sovereign-owned entities after Dole Foods, the D.C. Circuit's opinion concerning due process rights of foreign sovereigns in Price, further consideration of the definition of \"commercial activity,\" and the UN Draft Convention on State Immunities


• extensive treatment of recent developments concerning forum selection clauses and forum nonconveniens principles, including the new Hague Convention on Choice of Courts Agreements, excerpts and discussions of the Second Circuit's decisions in Iragorri and Wiwa, as well as the recent Lloyds of London litigation


• updated analysis of the doctrine of lis pendens and antisuit injunctions, including the Fifth Circuit's recent decision in Kaepa and a comparison of these doctrines under federal law and EC Directive 44/2001


• updated discussion of legislative…