Tanya J. Monestier

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Professor

Research Focus: Contracts, Sales, Conflict of Laws, Transnational Litigation

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Contact Information

 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone: 716-645-7878
Email: tanyam@buffalo.edu

Publications Biography

Formal Objections and Related Motions

Motion for Reconsideration, Tanya Monestier (2024) and Suggestions in Support of a Motion, Tanya Monestier (2024)

Recent Reports

Books

SH*T NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT LAW SCHOOL (Carolina Academic Press, 2022)
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Articles

Amazon’s Dirty Little Secret, 69 VILLANOVA LAW REVIEW 521 (2024)
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Cake-and-Eat-it-Too Clauses, 2024 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 87 (2024)
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The Scope of Generic Choice of Law Clauses, 56 UC DAVIS LAW REVIEW 959-1018 (2023)
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Amazon as a Seller of Marketplace Goods Under Article 2, 107 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 101 (2022)
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Damages for Breach of a Forum Selection Clause, 58 AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 271 (2021)
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Fixer Upper: Buyer Deposits in Residential Real Estate Transactions, 80 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 1149 (2019)
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When Forum Selection Clauses Meet Choice of Law Clauses, 69 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 325 (2019)
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Forum Selection Clauses and Consumer Contracts in Canada, 36 BOSTON UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 177-220 (2018)
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You’re It! Tag Jurisdiction Over Corporations in Canada, 50 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW (2017)
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Whose Law of Personal Jurisdiction? The Choice of Law Problem in the Recognition of Foreign Judgments, 96 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2016)
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Registration Statutes, General Jurisdiction, and the Fallacy of Consent, 36 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW (2015)
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Where is Home Depot “At Home”? Daimler v. Bauman and the End of Doing Business Jurisdiction, 66 HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 233-293 (2014)
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Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, 42 THE ADVOCATES’ QUARTERLY (2013)
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(Still) A “Real and Substantial” Mess: The Law of Jurisdiction in Canada, 36 FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2013)
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Is Canada the New Shangri-La of Global Securities Class Actions? 32 NORTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND BUSINESS (2012)
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Transnational Class Actions and the Illusory Search for Res Judicata, 86 TULANE LAW REVIEW (2011)
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A “Real and Substantial” Improvement? Van Breda Reformulates the Law of Jurisdiction in Ontario, eds. T. Archibald and R. Echlin, ANNUAL REVIEW OF CIVIL LITIGATION (2010)
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Personal Jurisdiction Over Non-Resident Class Members: Have We Gone Down the Wrong Road?, 45 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 537-572 (2010)
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A “Real and Substantial” Mess: The Law of Jurisdiction in Canada, 33 QUEEN’S LAW JOURNAL (2007)
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Foreign Judgments at Common Law: Rethinking the Enforcement Rules, 28 DALHOUSIE LAW JOURNAL (2005)
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Book Reviews and Shorter Articles

Book Review, Cross-Border Torts, Canadian-U.S. Litigation Strategies, by Wyatt Pickett, 51 CANADIAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2013)
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Lépine v. Canada Post: Ironing Out the Wrinkles in the Inter-provincial Enforcement of Class Judgments, 34 THE ADVOCATES’ QUARTERLY (2008)
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A Win-Win Proposition: The Viability of a Rule 23(B)(1)(b) Class Action in the American Mass Tort Context, CLASS ACTION: A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO CLASS PROCEEDINGS, PROCEDURE AND LEGISLATION, Vol. I, No. 3 (2002)

Amicus Briefs

Brief of Professor Tanya Monestier as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondent, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (U.S. Supreme Court, 2022) (No. 21-1168)
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Misc

The Law School Lounge, What is it Like Being a First-Generation Student? - Episode 1

The Law School Lounge, How to Take (Good) Notes in Law School - Episode 2

The Law School Lounge, How do I Prepare for Class and the Socratic Method?- Episode 3

The Law School Lounge, What is Outlining for a Law School Course? - Episode 4