Indictments of top FIFA officials by the Department of Justice and ongoing investigations into corruption in the World Cup bidding process have intensified speculation about whether FIFA will strip the 2022 World Cup from the host Qatar Football Association (“QFA”) and instead award it to...

Scholars have proposed numerous solutions to the procedural hurdles facing non-U.S. claimants like forum non conveniens and non-recognition of foreign money judgments, including allowing an arbitration forum as part of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). This Article explains and applies...

Governmental and private investigations have generated evidence of corruption in the bidding process to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which went to Qatar rather than the United States. One economic study has shown an increase in professional soccer attendance in European countries that host the...

Overlooked in the indictments of top FIFA officials and continuing investigations into corruption in the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup is the harm to Major League Soccer from not having the event in the United States. Applying current data about MLS revenues to a concept studied by...

Expert testimony backed by economic models is essential for showing discrimination in employment cases, proving causation in antitrust suits, and measuring damages in an array of complex business litigation. Courts lack consistency and coherence in admissibility decisions regarding expert...

Courts expect plaintiffs in complex litigation to prove damages through sophisticated economic models using techniques like regression analysis. Courts in the Daubert era also scrutinize the assumptions underlying those models and sometimes exclude expert testimony because of dubious...

Numerous Latin American countries have enacted statutes to block the forum non conveniens dismissals from U.S. courts of their citizens' tort claims. This article applies two of the master tropes from rhetorician Kenneth Burke to one particular blocking statute, Nicaraguan Special Law 364, and...

When a judicial system lacks impartial tribunals or procedures, a United States court must decline to recognize a foreign money judgment from that nation. This mandatory ground for nonrecognition has received considerable scholarly attention, most notably for its interplay with the doctrine of...