Suchergebnisse

National law -- International law -- Nonbinding and private norms -- National courts -- International courts -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Court judgments -- Arbitral awards -- Transnational service of process -- Alternative forums -- Foreign sovereign immunity -- Foreign affairs limits on transnational cases -- Transnational discovery.

From its earliest decisions in the 1790s, the US Supreme Court has used international law to help resolve major legal controversies. This book presents a comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's use of international law from its inception to the present day. Addressing treaties, the direct application of customary international law and the use of international law as an interpretive tool, this book examines all the cases or lines of cases in which international law has played a material role, showing how the Court's treatment of international law both changed and remained consistent over the period. Although there was substantial continuity in the Supreme Court's international law doctrine through the end of the nineteenth century, the past century has been a time of tremendous doctrinal change. Few aspects of the Court's international law doctrine remain the same in the twenty-first century as they were two hundred years ago.

Commerce or isolation: the decision to trade, transfer technology, and invest abroad -- The actors: the countries and institutions of international business -- Forms of international business -- Agreements for the international trading of goods -- Financing the international sale of goods -- Tariff and nontariff import barriers -- Responses of domestic producers to import competition -- Exports -- Licensing, theft and forced technology transfers -- Establishing and operating a foreign investment -- The resolution of international disputes.