Courts Without Borders - Law, Politics, and Us Extraterritoriality

This book is about the US politics and law of judicial extraterritoriality and how it influences international rule making and enforcement.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. A theory of judicial extraterritoriality; 3. US domestic courts and transnational governance; 4. Extraterritoriality in the absence of agreement: international antitrust; 5. Extraterritoriality's limits and US bargaining over intellectual property protections; 6. US extraterritoriality and human rights: shaping a treaty regime from within; 7. The waning of US extraterritoriality?

About the author

Tonya L. Putnam is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, New York. She is a lawyer with experience in international public law litigation, and a member of the California State Bar.

Summary

This is the first book to examine the US politics of judicial extraterritoriality, the practice of domestic courts unilaterally applying domestic laws to conduct and persons outside the US borders. This volume proposes and tests a general theory of domestic court behavior to explain variation in extraterritorial enforcement of US law.

Product details

• Authors: Tonya L. Putnam, Tonya L. (Columbia University Putnam, Putnam Tonya L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781316502075
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50207-5
• No. of pages: 329
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, LAW / International, LAW / Public, United States of America, USA, Public international law: territory and statehood, International law of territory & statehood