Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1995
ISSN
0040-4381
Publisher
UT Law Publications
Language
en-US
Abstract
The text of a legal rule is often less important than the context of its interpretation and application. If a dispute between an American buyer and a French seller were to come before a French court, the buyer might be apprehensive not so much from any fearful oddity of French law, but because the adjudicatory procedure arguably gave the French side a "home court advantage." In some other countries, the integrity or independence of the judiciary may also be a matter of concern. In an international transaction, the absence of any reasonably neutral forum with compulsory jurisdiction makes the consequences of a business deal gone sour much more disagreeable than in an otherwise similar domestic transaction.
Recommended Citation
William W. Park,
Illusion and Reality in International Forum Selection
,
in
30
Texas International Law Journal
135
(1995).
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