International Business Transactions

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum: Another Round in the Fight Over Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute

 

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14
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31
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Chimène I. Keitner
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NAFTA Chapter 19 Panel Follows WTO Appellate Body in Striking Down Zeroing

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14
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30
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Tania Voon
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The Treaty of Lisbon Expands the EU’s External Trade and Investment Powers

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14
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29
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Herrmann
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The Yukos Interim Awards on Jurisdiction and Admissibility Confirms Provisional Application of Energy Charter Treaty

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14
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23
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Dr. Chiara Giorgetti
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Morrison v. Nat’l Australia Bank Ltd.: The Supreme Court Rejects Extraterritoriality

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14
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22
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Paul B. Stephan
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Congress Continues to Attack Currency Manipulation as China Defuses G-20 Pressure For Now: the International Law Issues

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14
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19
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Claus D. Zimmermann
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ECJ Holds that West Bank Products are Outside Scope of the EU-Israel Association Agreement

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On February 25, 2010, in its ruling in Brita GmbH v. Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Hafen, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled on the trade implications of one of the hot-potato issues of international law: the status of the territories occupied by Israel.

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14
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17
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Itzchak Kornfeld
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Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Announces Equal Protection Exception for Customs Cases: Totes-Isotoner v. United States

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The power to tax is the power to destroy, or at the very least, the power to make imports of men’s gloves more expensive than imports of women’s gloves. An international business person importing goods into the United States might think that a law which treated differently an identical men’s and women’s product would somehow run afoul of the United States Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) has held that it does not.

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14
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12
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Claire Kelly
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Iceland's Financial Crisis – Quo Vadis International Law

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In October 2008, Iceland's banking system collapsed. Within a week, the three major banks comprising ninety percent of the Icelandic banking system had failed. It was one of the fastest and most comprehensive banking crises in history. This collapse occurred at the height of the global credit crunch and followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in the United States.

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14
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5
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Michael Waibel
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