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Review of E Aristova, Tort Litigation Against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 352 pp, hb £125

Conflict of Laws

The book is particularly notable for its observation—citing Professor Robert McCorquodale—that FDL claims intersect with various fields of law, such as domestic criminal law, tort law, contract law, human rights and constitutional law, comparative law, public international law, and private international law.

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Global Value Chains and Transnational Private Law Workshop at Edinburgh Law School – Report

Conflict of Laws

He illustrated the procedural mechanisms in the UK that are available for mass tort litigation of this kind and suggested that the Group Litigation Order (GLO) would be the appropriate mechanism in the majority of cases of mass tort litigation. Finally, he suggested examining the Okpabi case to see how GLOs work.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 5/2024: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Klink: Der Commercial Court nach dem Justizstandort-Stärkungsgesetz – ein Modellprojekt für grenzüberschreitende Gerichtsverfahren The Legal Venue Strengthening Act allows the German states to establish Commercial Courts at the higher regional courts as of 2025. Reibetanz: The ‘purely domestic case’ under Art.

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Comparing Recent Federal Circuit Judges

Above The Law

Biden appointed the most judges to the Second Circuit in 2021, to the Ninth in 2022, and even had one judge begin active service in 2025 ( Embry Kidd in the Eleventh Circuit). It also touches on procedural law, particularly the standards for amending a complaint after a motion to dismiss.