The International Litigation Committee is the committee in the Section on Litigation engaged in the monitoring of, presentation of programs on, formulation of policy and rules concerning International Litigation and International Arbitration.

The committee produces programs, articles, newsletters etc., with respect to international litigation, including questions of service, jurisdiction, evidence, enforcement of judgments, international arbitration, ethics, international criminal issues, etc. The committee is delighted to extend an invitation to all members of the Section to join with it in its work. We encourage members to be active.

The plaintiffs sued the People’s Republic of China (PRC) seeking to recover on bonds issued in 1913 by the PRC’s predecessor government. The bonds, worth an estimated current value of $2,392,194,873, were not originally available for purchase in the United States but were purchased in 1955 on a secondary market by U.S. investors.

The plaintiff sued the defendants Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (the OHR) and Ambassador Miroslav Lajcak in his official capacity as the High Representative, for wrongful termination. The defendants moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and for insufficient service of process. Because the court found that it lacked personal jurisdiction, it granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss and declined to decide the other issues raised by the defendants.

The plaintiff, who was injured by a defective aerial fireworks shell on July 4, 1994, commenced an action in 1995 against various parties, including China National Native (Tuhsu) as the purported manufacturer of the shell. Tuhsu did not appear in response to the complaint, and in 1995, following the plaintiff’s settlement with the other defendants, he moved to convene a non-jury trial for purposes of obtaining a judgment against Tuhsu.