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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.

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U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision

June 28, 2023/in Views/by John Coyle

This 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

May 17, 2023/in Views/by John Coyle

The 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

April 27, 2023/in Views/by John Coyle

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China’s Draft Law on Foreign State Immunity Would Adopt Restrictive Theory

April 12, 2023/in Views/by John Coyle

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Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey

February 9, 2023/in Views/by John Coyle

The 36th Annual Survey of Choice of Law in the American Courts (2022) has been

More on the Validity of the PDVSA 2020 Bonds

November 3, 2022/in Views/by John Coyle

Written 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. […]

The Billion-Dollar Choice-of-Law Question

October 24, 2022/2 Comments/in Views/by John Coyle

Now or Then? The Temporal Aspects of Choice-of-Law Clauses

October 3, 2022/in Views/by John Coyle

Several years ago, I published a

Conflicting Views on the Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws

May 24, 2022/1 Comment/in Views/by John Coyle

The 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 […]

Transnational Litigation Blog

April 13, 2022/in News/by John Coyle

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