(311) University of Pennsylvania Law Review FOUNDED 1852 ________________ Formerly American Law Register ________________________ VOL. 151 DECEMBER 2002 NO. 2 ARTICLES THE GLOBALIZATION OF JURISDICTION PAUL SCHIFF BERMAN † Supposing however that the Act [at issue] had said in terms, that though a person sued in the island [of Tobago] had never been present within the juris- diction, yet that it should bind him upon proof of nailing up the summons at the Court door; how could that be obligatory upon the subjects of other coun- tries? Can the island of Tobago pass a law to bind the rights of the whole world? Would the world submit to such an assumed jurisdiction? 1 † Associate Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law. I owe the following people special thanks for help at various stages of this project : Kenneth Anderson, Ra- chel Barkow, Lofty Becker, Patricia L. Bellia, Bethany Berger, Phillip Blumberg, Anuj Desai, Laura Dickinson, Mark Drumbl, Graeme Dinwoodie, Christine Haight Farley, Marc Galanter, Kate Gordon, Robert W. Gordon, Rhoda Howard-Hassman, Helen Hershkoff, Dan Hunter, Mark W. Janis, Jonathan Kahn, Lisa Kloppenberg, Harold Hongju Koh, Peter Lindseth, Stewart Macaulay, Sally Merry, Diane Orentlicher, Leonard Orland, Jer- emy Paul, Richard Pomp, David G. Post, Ellen Rigsby, Mark Rosen, Richard J. Ross, Ted Ruger, Vicki Schultz, Gregory Shaffer, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Avi Soifer, Catherine T. Struve, Colin Tait, David R. Tillinghast, Leti Volpp, Steven Wilf, and Carol Weisbrod. This Article was selected for presentation at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, held at Yale Law School in June 2002. Versions of the Article have also been presented at the Annual