Professor Juenger Cited in Supreme Court International Law Opinion

Research by the late Professor Friedrich "Fritz" Juenger is cited in the recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Daimler Chrysler v. Bauman.

The case concerns Daimler, a German parent corporation that was sued in California by Argentinian plaintiffs for human rights violations allegedly undertaken by a Daimler subsidiary operating in Argentina. In an opinion authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the Court held that Diamler lacked sufficient connections to California to be subject to suit there, since the alleged human rights violations and other events in this litigation did not occur there. The opinion cites Juenger's research to buttress the notion that more expansive views of so-called "general jurisdiction" (where a state exercises jurisdiction even though the events in the lawsuit have no connection to it) may impede negotiations of international agreements regarding reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments.

Professor Juenger was born in Germany and studied law at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin, then attended the University of Michigan Law School as a Fulbright Scholar School and earned a master's degree in comparative law. He earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1960 and worked for Baker & McKenzie, a leading international law firm. He joined the King Hall faculty in 1975, and earned a reputation as an outstanding teacher and a prolific scholar, authoring four books and more than 70 articles. At the time of his death in 2001, he was considered one of the world's leading authorities on conflict of laws and comparative law.

U.S. Supreme Court opinion: Daimler Chrysler v. Bauman