Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Symposium: Lessons From Chevron

The latest issue of the Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation (Vol. 1, no. 2, Spring 2013) contains a symposium on "Lessons From Chevron." Contents include:
  • Keefe, Patrick Radden. Reversal of fortune: the Lago Agrio litigation
  • Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Ten lessons from the Chevron litigation: the defense perspective
  • Judith Kimerling, Lessons from the Chevron Ecuador litigation: the proposed intervenors’ perspective
  • S.I. Strong, Discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782: distinguishing international commercial arbitration and international investment arbitration
  • Michael D. Goldhaber, The rise of arbitral power over domestic courts
  • Howard M. Erichson, The Chevron-Ecuador dispute: forum non conveniens, and the problem of ex ante inadequacy
  • Manuel A. Gómez, The global chase: seeking the recognition and enforcement of the Lago Agrio judgment outside of Ecuador
  • Christopher A. Whytock, Some cautionary notes on the “Chevronization” of transnational litigation
  • Catherine A. Rogers, When bad guys are wearing white hats
  • Burt Neuborne, A plague on both their houses: a modest proposal for ending the Ecuadorian rainforest wars