International Law and American Courts: Ignoring the Framers
The current treatment of international law in the United States is a very significant departure from what the Framers prescribed, with great care and specificity, in the Nation’s C...
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The current treatment of international law in the United States is a very significant departure from what the Framers prescribed, with great care and specificity, in the Nation’s C...
An interesting illustration of how American courts handle (correctly, I think) foreign marriages.
I. Introduction This is certainly a genuinely interesting case from Bahrain, involving the application of “foreign” Jewish customs in a succession dispute that appears to be betwee...
"Plaintiff claims that these policies and laws 'have been exported to the United States through their nationals' and 'have directly caused catastrophic harm to Plaintiff, a gay Uni...
Nearly 240 years ago, Congress enacted the Alien Tort Statute, which allows foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts for serious violations of international law. On Tuesday, the...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared poised to further narrow the extent to which U.S. courts can be used as a forum to consider alleged violations of international law.
I. Introduction Finally out: the new Moroccan Code of Civil Procedure (Law No. 58.25), the preparation of which was
From a decision last year in Ali v. Osman, from Judge Stephanie Hayden (N.D. Cass County Dist. Ct.); I just… The post North Dakota Court Refuses to Recognize Foreign Islamic Divorc...
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The International Law Commission (ILC), during its seventy-sixth session in May 2025, provisionally adopted the first-reading draft conclusions on Subsidiary means for the determin...
Foreign Judgment fails in India if no proper trial is held; the Supreme Court says summary rulings without a full hearing violate Section 13 CPC.
This post is written by Timon Milan Solár, Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Law, Trnava University, Slovakia. In October 2025, the High Court of England and Wales (King’s Bench Divi...
In an increasingly multipolar world, national and regional actors are reasserting regulatory control over cross-border economic activities. States such as the United States and Chi...
By Attorney Francis M Boyer Last fact-checked: May 2026 By Attorney Francis M. Boyer Summary: When a foreign government claims sovereign immunity to avoid paying an arbitration aw...
By Attorney Francis M Boyer Last fact-checked: May 2026 Quick Summary: A foreign prenup can be enforced in Florida, but only if it was valid in the country where you signed it and...
Mohammed, a Muslim citizen of India, operated a family-owned slaughterhouse business that became the subject of hostility from local Hindus associated with the Bharatiya Janata Par...
When a court denies a motion for alternative service on a foreign defendant, the answer is not to give up but to come back with better facts. And when building that factual record,...
SCOTUS oral arguments on aiding and abetting liability for US companies that facilitate atrocities abroad highlighted cross-cutting legal views amongst the Justices The post The Or...
Brief Facts The appellants Nagaraj V. Mylandla and Sharada Mylandla are promoters and directors of Financial Software and Systems Private Limited. The respondents were PI Opportuni...
A native of Ivory Coast and citizen of Mali entered the United States in 2000 on a student visa. The post Abuse of Discretion Standard-Exceptional Circumstances-Immigration first a...
On April 17, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled 8-0 that Louisiana's sprawling coastal-erosion litigation against American energy producers belongs in federal court. This landm...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Monday that strengthens protections against the application of foreign and religious laws. HB 1471 reinforces that Florida court...
We need to seriously consider the exclusion of aliens who support genocide, the imposition of apostasy or blasphemy laws, the establishment of governmentally-enforced religious law...
By Attorney Francis M Boyer Last fact-checked: May 2026 By Attorney Francis M. Boyer Quick Summary: If you hold a foreign arbitral award and the losing party won’t pay, Florida of...
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