Introduction

On April 27, 2005, the District of Columbia Bar's International Dispute Resolution Committee and Litigation Section jointly sponsored a challenging program on "Litigating Across Borders: Hot Topics and Recent Developments in Transnational Litigation." The Program focused on the many special issues arising in U.S. court litigation involving parties from different countries, including forum selection issues, international evidence-gathering, foreign sovereign immunity, anti-suit injunctions and the problems of multiple proceedings in different forums, and enforcement of ...