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Back to Bedrock with U.S. Extraterritoriality? Safeguarding Domestic Rule Integrity as a Touchstone for Judicial Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Tonya Putnam*
Affiliation:
Columbia University, Department of Political Science

Abstract

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Type
New Voices II: Internationalizing and Domesticating Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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References

1 130 S. Ct. 2869 (2010).

2 A paradigmatic example in the securities realm is the practice of exercising jurisdiction over extraterritorial acts of improper passing of information in violation of Rule 10(b)(5) where that information is subsequently used in transactions on U.S. exchanges. This aspect of extraterritorial securities enforcement is not affected by the holding in Morrison.

3 Turley, Jonathan, “When in Rome”: Multinational Misconduct and the Presumption Against Extraterritoriality, 84 NW. U. L. Rev. 598 (1990)Google Scholar.

4 Slaughter, Anne-Marie, A Global Community of Courts, 44 Harv. Int’l L.J. 191 (2003)Google Scholar.

5 For a full account of how these arguments are operationalized, see Putnam, Tonya L., Courts without Borders: Domestic Sources of U.S. Extraterritoriality in the Regulatory Sphere, 63 Int’l Org. 459 (2009)Google Scholar, which also tests these arguments on data up to 2003.

6 See, e.g., Kramer, Larry, Extraterritorial Application of American Law After the Insurance Antitrust Case: A Reply to Professors Lowenfeld and Trimble, 89 Am. J. Int’l L. 750, 755 (1995)Google Scholar.

7 Morrison, supra note 1, at 2873.

8 542 U.S. 155 (2004).

9 See, for example, Buxbaum, Hannah, National Courts, Global Cartels: F.-Hoffman La Roche v. Empagran S.A. (U.S. Supreme Court 1984), 5 German L.J. 1095, 1106 (2004)Google Scholar.