Forum shopping is problematic because it may lead to forum selling. For diverse motives,
including prestige, local benefits, or re-election, some judges want to hear more cases …

Back in the 1940s the political scientist C. Herman Pritchett began tallying the votes and
opinions of Supreme Court Justices. His goal was to use data to test the hypothesis that the …

There are ninety-four federal district courts in the United States, but nearly half of the six
thousand patent cases filed in 2013 were filed in just two of those courts: the District of …

Choice of Law provides an in-depth sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part
Conflicts Law (or Private International Law) in torts, products liability, contracts, forum …

Personal jurisdiction is a mess, and only Congress can fix it. Courts have sought a single
doctrine that simultaneously guarantees convenience for plaintiffs, fairness for defendants …

Human beings are the central problem of politics because they have personal interests, and
they tend to pursue them, even when they are tasked with pursuing the public interest …

This Article warns against developing the law of personaljurisdiction on the assumption that
general jurisdiction will guarantee an available forum in which to sue defendants. Instead …

Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also
affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in …

This article sets out a pragmatic justification for the main features of current personal
jurisdiction doctrine: personal jurisdiction rules minimize litigation costs and bias. This …

Suppose that you were a lawyer representing a plaintiff injured in a foreign country by a
defendant arguably subject to personal jurisdiction in the United States. Where would you …