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Informationen zum Autor Simona Grossi is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She worked for the UN from 2000 to 2002, and then she went into private practice and worked for Clifford Chance LLP and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo doing national and transnational litigation from 2002 to 2008. She worked for Judge Charles Breyer at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in 2010. She is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure and transnational litigation. She is the author of the Commentary to the Italian Code of Civil Procedure (2010). Klappentext This book studies the US Supreme Court and its common law approach to judicial decision making from a national and transnational perspective. Zusammenfassung This book studies the US Supreme Court and its current law approach to judicial decision-making from a national and transnational perspective. It suggests the adoption of a judicial decision-making model that proceeds from principles and rules and uses them as premises for developing consistent unitary theories to meet current social conditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The US Supreme Court's decision-making process: deciding when and what to decide; 2. Personal jurisdiction; 3. Forum non conveniens; 4. Personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens in a transnational context; 5. Subject matter jurisdiction; 6. A look abroad: is the US Supreme Court's decision-making process unique?; 7. Concluding remarks.
