2016-2019 Cumulative Supplement to Donald Earl Childress III, Michael D. Ramsey & Christopher A. Whytock, Transnational Law and Practice (2015)

Abstract

This is the Fall 2019 Cumulative Supplement for Donald Earl Childress III, Michael D. Ramsey & Christopher Whytock, Transnational Law and Practice (2015). Highlights include excerpts of the Supreme Court’s decisions in RJR Nabisco Inc. v. European Community and WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation, involving extraterritorial application of the RICO Act and the Patent Act; new developments regarding Alien Tort Statute litigation including the Supreme Court’s decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank PLC, involving corporate liability for international human rights violations; new Supreme Court and appellate court decisions in the areas of personal jurisdiction, including Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company v. Superior Court of California; discussion of pending litigation at the International Court of Justice; references to new Restatements issued by the American Law Institute; discussion of new Supreme Court and lower court developments in the law of foreign sovereign immunity; and an update on the ongoing dispute involving claims against Chevron, Inc. by Ecuadorian plaintiffs

Instructors using the Childress, Ramsey & Whytock casebook are authorized to distribute this supplement to their students for classroom use.

Keywords: Transnational Law, International Law, Transnational Litigation, International Litigation, Extraterritorial Law, Alien Tort Statute, Foreign Sovereign Immunity

JEL Classification: K33, K41