Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Analysis and Proposed Federal Statute (previously titled International Jurisdiction and Judgments Project)

 

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The ALI has undertaken a project aimed at drafting proposed federal legislation that would impose uniform standards for recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments throughout the United States. It was originally expected that this would take the form of legislation implementing the General Convention on International Jurisdiction and the Effects of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters being drafted by The Hague Conference on Private International Law. Because of the Convention’s present uncertain outcome, however, the project’s current drafting efforts are aimed at producing a proposed federal statute independent of the Convention.

The above links provide access to a memorandum describing the project as originally conceived by its Reporters, to a memorandum discussing the significance of the Convention and of the ALI project from the perspective of the United States Department of State, and to the current Convention drafts from The Hague Conference.