Add to ORKGPersonal jurisdiction usually focuses on the rights of the defendant. This is because a plaintiff implicitly consents to personal jurisdiction in the court where the plaintiff chooses to file. But what if the defendant seeks to transfer venue to a court in a state in which the plaintiff has no contacts and never consented to personal jurisdiction? Lower courts operate on the assumption that in both ordinary venue-transfer cases under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) and multidistrict-litigation cases under § 1407(a), personal-jurisdiction concerns for plaintiffs simply do not apply. I contest that assumption. Neither statute expands the statutory authorization of federal-court personal jurisdiction. And theories based on implied consent stretch that not...
No coherent or cohesive procedure or theory has emerged either in regard to the entire question of p...
This Article engages with some of the key debates that have emerged among international law and civi...
At several junctures, scholars have wondered what constitutional personal jurisdiction doctrine can ...
Personal jurisdiction usually focuses on the rights of the defendant. This is because a plaintiff im...
[Excerpt] Personal jurisdiction doctrine plays a major role in many civil disputes in the United St...
Lawyers are increasingly engaging in multi-jurisdictional practice—and their representation is incre...
In Part I, the Article discusses the history of the U.S. Supreme Court’s substantive due process lim...
Commentators have routinely noted the complexity, opacity, and multiple functions of U.S. personal j...
The increasing prevalence of noncitizens in U.S. civil litigation raises a funda-mental question for...
In Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the st...
The time has come for the Supreme Court to declare that a state may not apply its own law to a case ...
The Supreme Court has recently clarified one corner of personal jurisdiction—a court’s power to hale...
The Supreme Court has never articulated a coherent theoretical justification for the law of personal...
A foundational concept of American jurisprudence is the principle that it is unfair to allow litigan...
Personal jurisdiction doctrine as articulated by the Supreme Court is in disarray. As a constitution...
No coherent or cohesive procedure or theory has emerged either in regard to the entire question of p...
This Article engages with some of the key debates that have emerged among international law and civi...
At several junctures, scholars have wondered what constitutional personal jurisdiction doctrine can ...
Personal jurisdiction usually focuses on the rights of the defendant. This is because a plaintiff im...
[Excerpt] Personal jurisdiction doctrine plays a major role in many civil disputes in the United St...
Lawyers are increasingly engaging in multi-jurisdictional practice—and their representation is incre...
In Part I, the Article discusses the history of the U.S. Supreme Court’s substantive due process lim...
Commentators have routinely noted the complexity, opacity, and multiple functions of U.S. personal j...
The increasing prevalence of noncitizens in U.S. civil litigation raises a funda-mental question for...
In Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the st...
The time has come for the Supreme Court to declare that a state may not apply its own law to a case ...
The Supreme Court has recently clarified one corner of personal jurisdiction—a court’s power to hale...
The Supreme Court has never articulated a coherent theoretical justification for the law of personal...
A foundational concept of American jurisprudence is the principle that it is unfair to allow litigan...
Personal jurisdiction doctrine as articulated by the Supreme Court is in disarray. As a constitution...
No coherent or cohesive procedure or theory has emerged either in regard to the entire question of p...
This Article engages with some of the key debates that have emerged among international law and civi...
At several junctures, scholars have wondered what constitutional personal jurisdiction doctrine can ...