Publication Title
International Journal of Legal Information
Volume
47
Page
22
Year
2019
Abstract
The Animal Science case is one of many cases in U.S. federal courts wherein parties rely in some measure on foreign law as part of a claim or defense. Yet, none of our legal research databases tracks and catalogs the foreign law and legal analysis filed in our courts. In fact, none of our legal research databases even provides an efficient way to find the foreign law and legal analysis filed in our courts. Despite the increasing frequency of cross-border litigation and the various types of cases that trigger a need to determine foreign law, access to foreign law as filed in our courts remains limited. Additionally, although several wonderful foreign legal research databases exist, they do not offer up-to-date certified translations of foreign law or expert interpretations and analysis by foreign counsel. Our court records do. The purpose of this article is to raise awareness that litigants in U.S. courts are producing documentation of foreign law with increasing frequency and that those documents are valuable and should be more accessible to future litigants, practitioners, scholars, and researchers.
Recommended Citation
Loren Turner, Buried Treasure: Excavating Foreign Law from Civil Pleadings Filed in U.S. Federal Courts, 47 Int'l J. Legal Info. 22 (2019), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/1185.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
