Local courts are, by far, the most commonly used courts in our justice system. Cases filed in
local courts outnumber those filed in federal court by a factor of over two hundred. Few …

Global lawmaking by international organizations holds the potential for enormous influence
over world trade and national economies. Representatives from states, industries, and …

Over the past half-century, courts in the United States have developed canons of
construction that they use exclusively to construe choice-of-law clauses. These canons are …

The Principles and Practice of International Aviation Law provides an introduction to, and
demystification of, the private and public dimensions of international aviation law. Unlike …

Do international merchants or commercial actors want to break free from the laws of states
and replace them with their own trade usages and commercial customs? Do they want to …

ABSTRACT The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
(" CISG") operates as an" international" version of UCC Article 2-it supplies the governing …

International transactions present unique legal risks. When a contract touches several
different nations, a party may not know where it will be called upon to defend a lawsuit or …

Choice-of-law agreements are widely used in international business transactions, with a
substantial majority of all cross-border commercial and investment contracts containing a …

In recent years, the US judiciary has taken steps to limit the role played by international law
in the US legal system. This Article seeks to explain this retreat and to identify ways by which …

In Reshaping the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System: Journeys for the 21st Century,
editors Jean E. Kalicki and Anna Joubin-Bret offer for the first time a broad compendium of …