Introduction

Just over ten years ago, a new undertaking in private international law was being inaugurated at the Hague in the form of a treaty on the enforcement of foreign judgments in the Hague Conference on Private International Law (Hague Conference), an intergovernmental organization composed of over 50 countries.[1] In an attempt to gain greater respect for U.S. judgments abroad, especially in an era of increasing international trade and commerce, the United States government in 1992-93 encouraged the Hague Conference to negotiate a multilateral convention on foreign judgments. In this ...