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Reconciling European Data Privacy Concerns with US Discovery Rules: Conflict and Comity

Global Competition Litigation Review
July 2009

The need for multinational corporations to prepare for, manage and vigorously prosecute transnational litigation is often in tension with cultural norms. Few areas have provoked as much attention as the recent conflict between the intensely adversarial truth-seeking function of US litigation and European efforts to protect spheres of personal privacy.

This article was first published by Thomson Reuters (Legal) Limited in the Global Competition Litigation Review, [2009] G.C.L.R. Issue 3. and is reproduced by agreement with the Publishers.