U.S. Discovery and Foreign Blocking Statutes

11 Pages Posted: 16 Feb 2016

Date Written: February 15, 2016

Abstract

What is the reality between U.S. discovery and the foreign blocking statutes that impede it in France and other civil law states? How should we understand their interface at a time when companies are multinational in composition as well as in their areas of commerce? U.S. courts grapple with the challenge of understanding why they should adhere to strictures that seem to compromise constitutional or quasi-constitutional rights of American plaintiffs, while French and German lawyers and judges struggle with the challenges U.S. discovery poses to values of privacy and fair trial procedure in their legal systems. This article seeks to address these issues.

Keywords: foreign blocking statutes; U.S. discovery; transnational litigation; Hague Convention on Evidence; international arbitration

Suggested Citation

Curran, Vivian Grosswald, U.S. Discovery and Foreign Blocking Statutes (February 15, 2016). Louisiana Law Review, Forthcoming, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-05, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2732802

Vivian Grosswald Curran (Contact Author)

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