Introduction

On March 5, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court announced one of its rare decisions on the doctrine of forum non conveniens . The decision has a somewhat narrow scope, and therefore is unlikely to give observers of transnational litigation quite as much to talk about as the court's last major statement on the doctrine. Nevertheless, the decision is an interesting one, for it resolved a significant circuit split and, because of both what it addressed and what it failed to address, it may have broader implications for forum non conveniens practice. The case, ...