Res Ipsa Loquitur (Or Why the Other Essays Prove My Point)

Abstract

As all the Roundtable essays note, DaimlerChrysler asks the Supreme Court to decide whether and when the in-­forum activities of a corporate subsidiary should give rise to general personal jurisdiction over the corporate parent. My four co-­contributors provide four wonderfully different perspectives on that question. And what those different perspectives should tell us is􀂳as I argued in my original contribution􀂳that it would be a mistake for the Supreme Court to decide that question in this case.