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iiclr-20785	Burress, Joshua	Sovereign Disobedience: The Role of U.S. Courts in Curtailing the Proliferation of Sovereign Default	2015	41	.pdf	application/pdf	18906	763	52	2. Recognition and Enforcement of U.S. Judgments Abroad Where a sovereign debtor has no attachable assets in the U.S., a judgment creditor can attempt to satisfy its judgment by seeking to have it recognized by a court in a foreign jurisdiction where the sovereign debtor has attachable assets.164 However, there is currently no enforcement mechanism available to compel foreign courts to recognize U.S. judgments.165 Because the United States is not currently a signatory to any treaty or convention guaranteeing the recognition and enforcement of its judgments abroad,166 a judgment creditor seeking to enforce its judgment in another country is at the mercy of that country’s domestic laws and “the principles of comity, reciprocity and res judicata. Although NML ultimately prevailed in the U.K., it took nearly five years and an appeal all the way to the U.K. Supreme Court.195 This substantiates the point that enforcement campaigns in foreign courts are often rife with great difficulty and uncertainty, and thus should not be embarked on haphazardly.196 Second, these proceedings demonstrate that despite the potential obstacles that await, attempting to have a judgment enforced in a foreign court can be a valid option,197 especially where all other enforcement options available under the FSIA have been exhausted.	cache/iiclr-20785.pdf	txt/iiclr-20785.txt