International Law Blog Postings

This Saturday, territorial-based approaches to jurisdiction will be challenged and, hopefully, expanded to accommodate multijurisdictional international cases within domestic courts. Through the use of videoconferencing and the state-of-the-art courtroom at the William and Mary School of Law, two courts will concurrently hear and decide on a transborder child abduction case. The two courts represent civil courts in Virginia, the United States, and in Monterrey, Mexico. Judge John J. Specia, Jr. of Texas will preside over the court in Virginia. The intent of the experimental trial will be to enable real-time collaboration between the two courts for the purpose of producing concurrent rulings. Continue Reading