About John Coyle
John Coyle joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2010 and serves as the Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law. His teaching and research interests include contracts, corporate law, and private international law.
Entries by John Coyle
U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision
/in Views/by John CoyleThis post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. It is cross-posted at
Data on Choice-of-Court Clause Enforcement in US
/in Views/by John CoyleThe United States legal system is immensely complex. There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. When I imagine a foreign lawyer trying to explain this system to a foreign client, my heart fills with pity. This feeling of pity is compounded when I […]
China’s Draft Law on Foreign State Immunity—Part II
/in Views/by John CoyleWritten by
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey
/in Views/by John CoyleThe 36th Annual Survey of Choice of Law in the American Courts (2022) has been
More on the Validity of the PDVSA 2020 Bonds
/in Views/by John CoyleWritten by Mark Weidemaier, the Ralph M. Stockton, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mitu Gulati, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Governments with no realistic prospect of paying their debts often gamble for redemption, trying desperately to avoid default. […]
Now or Then? The Temporal Aspects of Choice-of-Law Clauses
/in Views/by John CoyleSeveral years ago, I published a
Conflicting Views on the Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws
/1 Comment/in Views/by John CoyleThe American Law Institute is currently drafting the Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. Lea Brilmayer (an eminent scholar of conflict of laws and a professor at Yale Law School) and Kim Roosevelt (the Reporter for the Restatement (Third) and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) recently engaged in a spirited […]