Tanya J. Monestier

a woman wearing glasses and blue shirt standing outside.

Professor; Honorable Dawn B. Girard Faculty Scholar

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

Links:Curriculum Vitae,  SSRN

Contact Information

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

Publications Biography

Formal Objections and Related Motions

Reply Brief Redacted, Tanya Monestier (2025)

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

Recent Reports

Books

SALES LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (with Michael Greefield) (Foundation Press, forthcoming 2026).

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

Articles

Limits on Damages for Breach of a Forum Selection Clause (with John Coyle), 66 SANTA CLARA LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2026).

Amazon’s Dirty Little Secret, 69 VILLANOVA LAW REVIEW 521 (2024)

Cake-and-Eat-it-Too Clauses, 2024 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 87 (2024)

The Scope of Generic Choice of Law Clauses, 56 UC DAVIS LAW REVIEW 959-1018 (2023)

Amazon as a Seller of Marketplace Goods Under Article 2, 107 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 101 (2022)

Damages for Breach of a Forum Selection Clause, 58 AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 271 (2021)

Fixer Upper: Buyer Deposits in Residential Real Estate Transactions, 80 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 1149 (2019)

When Forum Selection Clauses Meet Choice of Law Clauses, 69 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 325 (2019)

Forum Selection Clauses and Consumer Contracts in Canada, 36 BOSTON UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 177-220 (2018)

You’re It! Tag Jurisdiction Over Corporations in Canada, 50 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW (2017)

Whose Law of Personal Jurisdiction? The Choice of Law Problem in the Recognition of Foreign Judgments, 96 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2016)

Registration Statutes, General Jurisdiction, and the Fallacy of Consent, 36 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW (2015)

Where is Home Depot “At Home”? Daimler v. Bauman and the End of Doing Business Jurisdiction, 66 HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 233-293 (2014)

Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, 42 THE ADVOCATES’ QUARTERLY (2013)

(Still) A “Real and Substantial” Mess: The Law of Jurisdiction in Canada, 36 FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2013)

Is Canada the New Shangri-La of Global Securities Class Actions? 32 NORTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND BUSINESS (2012)

Transnational Class Actions and the Illusory Search for Res Judicata, 86 TULANE LAW REVIEW (2011)

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)

Personal Jurisdiction Over Non-Resident Class Members: Have We Gone Down the Wrong Road?, 45 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 537-572 (2010)

A “Real and Substantial” Mess: The Law of Jurisdiction in Canada, 33 QUEEN’S LAW JOURNAL (2007)

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)

Lépine v. Canada Post: Ironing Out the Wrinkles in the Inter-provincial Enforcement of Class Judgments, 34 THE ADVOCATES’ QUARTERLY (2008)

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

What is it Like Being a First-Generation Student?, The Law School Lounge Podcast,  Episode 1 (2023)

How to Take (Good) Notes in Law School, The Law School Lounge Podcast, Episode 2 (2023)

How do I Prepare for Class and the Socratic Method?, The Law School Lounge Podcast, Episode 3 (2023)

What is Outlining for a Law School Course?, The Law School Lounge Podcast, Episode 4 (2023)