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   "text": "Geographic tests create the risk of a no man's land transaction: defendants may persuade the courts of every jurisdiction that the transaction took place outside their borders, leaving the transaction governed by no law and with no available forum.",
   "abstract": "Alternatively, defendants might successfully persuade courts in all jurisdictions that a transaction took place outside their borders or for some other reason outside their jurisdictions. Such a \"no man's land\" transaction would be governed by no law and there would be no forum.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Richard W. Painter, Forum Competition and Choice of Law Competition in Securities Law after Morrison v. National Austral (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2029983",
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   "text": "A contract selecting non-U.S. securities law can fail entirely: if the chosen jurisdiction's courts decline jurisdiction because the transaction did not clear there or the parties lack a local presence, the contract may as a practical matter mean that no law applies.",
   "abstract": "If so, the contract to apply non- U.S. law might as a practical matter mean that no law applies.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Richard W. Painter, Forum Competition and Choice of Law Competition in Securities Law after Morrison v. National Austral (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2029983",
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