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Author Putnam, Tonya L. (Tonya Lee), author.
Title Courts without borders : law, politics, and U.S. extraterritoriality [Electronic book] / Tonya L. Putnam.
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Media type computer
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Descript Electronic book.
Series Cambridge books online.
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Contents Machine generated contents note: 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?
Summary Courts without Borders is the first book to examine the politics of judicial extraterritoriality, with a focus on the world's chief practitioner: the United States. For much of the post-World War II era, the United States has been a frequent yet selective regulator of activities outside its territory, and US federal courts are often on the front line in deciding the extraterritorial reach of US law. At stake in these jurisdiction battles is the ability to bring the regulatory power of the United States to bear on transnational disputes in ways that other states frequently dislike both in principle and in practice. This volume proposes a general theory of domestic court behavior to explain variation in extraterritorial enforcement of US law, emphasizing how the strategic behavior of private actors is important to mobilizing courts and in directing their activities.
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Subject Conflict of laws -- Jurisdiction -- United States.
Exterritoriality.
Courts -- United States.
Effectiveness and validity of law -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Law and legislation.
Related To Print version: 9781107137097
ISBN 9781316480304 electronic bk.
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