The ongoing case of Khulumani v. Barclay National Bank presents interesting questions concerning the nexus of the public and private in international law.  In Khulumani, a large class of South African plaintiffs assert that several multinational corporations (including Daimler, Ford, General Motors, and IBM)  aided and abetted apartheid crimes (including torture, extrajudicial killing, and arbitrary denationalization) […]

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On May 19, 2009, the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts held a hearing entitled “Leveling the Playing Field and Protecting Americans:  Holding Foreign Manufacturers Accountable.”  The purpose of the hearing was to explore whether legislation is necessary to deal specifically with foreign defendants in products liability cases.  The […]

From June 3-5, 2009, the International Association of Procedural Law is holding its annual conference in Toronto, Canada.  Entitled “The Future of Categories–Categories of the Future,” the conference will showcase “leading proceduralists from around the world” who will present “their perspectives on the ways in which procedural reform is precipitating a collapse of the traditional categories […]