Exploring cross-border cases in U.S. courts and their relevance to business, politics, and people's lives. At + of civ pro, int'l law, IBT, & foreign affairs.
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🧵Today CAL, @CivicResponse and @UG_SchoolOfLaw jointly filed a historic grievance with @ghcocobod on behalf of 30 cocoa farmers concerning its failure to adequately monitor and address issues of deforestation, illegal pesticide use, and hazardous child labor in the sector
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The prohibition of annexations lies at the core of international law, but it is often misunderstood, esp its relationship to jus ad bellum, as @MonicaHakimi and I argue in a newly published article: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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How many monetary judgments that Chinese courts decided to enforce are successfully enforced? conflictoflaws.net/2024/how-…
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🇩🇴🇸🇻The 1965 #Service Convention has entered into force for the #DominicanRepublic and #ElSalvador!
👉More information: bit.ly/3N3LlBY
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📣 Call for Applications: Research on the use of international law by domestic courts 📣
We are currently hiring professionals or graduate students to provide research assistance for a project led by @VLanovoy & me. Please share this opportunity with your networks! @ulaval_droit
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🇺🇾 The 2019 #Judgments Convention has entered into force for #Uruguay!
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September 2024 Update: List of China’s Cases on Recognition of Foreign Judgments conflictoflaws.net/2024/sept…
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Help celebrate David Stewart!
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Review of Ronald A. Brand, Michael S. Coffee, and Paul Herrup, The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 416pp, hb £125 conflictoflaws.net/2024/revi…
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In Jan, I wrote @WorldTradeLaw re how Doe Run was arguing that the enviro chp of the U.S.-Peru FTA required dismissal of a tort case against the co in Missouri
ielp.worldtradelaw.net/2024/…
Today, the 8th Cir fortunately rejected this defense: media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndi…
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Major jury verdict against @Chiquita in bellwether human rights case-- more trials to come. Congrats @EarthRightsIntl
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Please consider joining us @brooklynlaw for the Int'l Business Law Scholars' Roundtable next Fall. There's hardly a better forum for sharing and discussing your scholarship on int'l business/economic/private law. Abstracts due June 28. More info below. *Please share widely*
Brooklyn Law announces a Call for Papers on international business law topics for a Scholars’ Roundtable sponsored by the Block Center. The event is Sept. 27, and deadline for submissions is June 28. Details here: bit.ly/3VrZSfA
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Faculty news: congratulations to Prof. Chris Whytock, along with @ProfBillDodge and Prof. @maggiekgardner, whose @DukeLawJournal article “The Many State Doctrines of Forum Non Conveniens” received the Berkeley Civil Justice Research Initiative’s Best Paper Prize. @TL_Blog
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“This verdict sends a powerful message to corporations everywhere: profiting from human rights abuses will not go unpunished. These families, victimized by armed groups and corporations, asserted their power and prevailed” @Power_of_Law
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🚨BREAKING🚨
CHIQUITA BANANA HELD LIABLE BY U.S. JURY FOR FUNDING PARAMILITARY ABUSE IN COLOMBIA.
This may be the first time that a U.S. corporation has been held liable by a U.S. jury for human rights violations abroad.
earthrights.org/media_releas…
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Call for Papers: The Case of the S.S. Lotus: The First 100 Years dlvr.it/T7q2Lq
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Keith Bishop blogs about a company - unnamed, maybe private? - organized in Nevada with a Delaware forum selection clause for disputes.
I.e., they want Nevada's lax corporate law but Delaware judges to decide the cases.
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Bahraini Supreme Court on the Enforceability of a Foreign Judgment Ordering the Payment of Contingent Fees conflictoflaws.net/2024/bahr…
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Who is bound by Choice of Court Agreements in Bills of Lading? Guest post on CJEU Maersk by @mukarrumahmed
gavclaw.com/2024/05/27/who-i…
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Australasian Association of Private International Law conflictoflaws.net/2024/aust…