Alyssa King, ‘Global Civil Procedure’, Harvard International Law Journal (forthcoming 2021), available at SSRN. Remember when civil procedure was making headlines? Dozens of courts relied on familiar procedures to dismiss meritless lawsuits lacking proof or factual support. The Supreme Court dashed President Trump’s hopes of a judicial reversal of fortune by relying on standing to reject Texas’s attempt to have the Court exercise original jurisdiction over its suit against Pennsylvania and other states. While Trump and his affiliates complained that cases were being dismissed based on ‘technicalities’, those dismayed by Trump’s attempt to subvert the election rejoiced that civil procedure did its basic job of protecting justice. These recent events – and more recent ones – provide a striking backdrop for Alyssa King’s ‘Global Civil Procedure’. Surveying procedural developments in litigation and arbitration around the world, King reveals an overlapping consensus in how institutions handle civil dispute resolution … (more)
[Pamela Bookman, JOTWELL, 4 February]
First posted 2021-02-04 17:28:16
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