Transnational Litigation Blog

There is one sentence in Fuld v. PLO (2025) that has always bothered me: that “The Constitution confers upon the Federal Government—and it alone—both nationwide and extraterritorial authority.” This statement is demonstrably wrong, so much so that I was ea...

TLB’s primer on foreign sovereign immunity has been updated to reflect recent cases, global developments, and new statutes.

The primer on foreign sovereign immunity is part of a popular series of TLB pr...

Many professional athletes compete at the international level, and some have accused the governing bodies of various sports of unlawfully restricting global competition for their services. When athletes bring antitrust claims in U.S. courts, however, it can be difficult to establish personal jurisdiction over foreign sports organizations. In a

In July 2022, I authored a blog post about a Ferrari F50 that was sitting in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol warehouse in upstate New York while a federal court tried to sort out who owned it. I recently discovered that this famed Italian supercar is still sitting in t...

Editors’ Note: This post is cross-published at Just Security.

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