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Case of the Day: EM Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina
The case of the day is EM Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina (2d Cir. 2012). This is yet another installment in NML Capital’s efforts to collect from Argentina on a judgment it obtained in New York following Argentina’s default on its sovereign debt. In today’s case, NML had served subpoenas on Bank of America and……
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Martyniszyn on Transnational Discovery in Antitrust Cases
I wanted to call attention to an interesting new paper by Marek Martyniszyn, a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a friend of Letters Blogatory, titled Discovery and Evidence in Transnational Antitrust Cases: Current Framework and the Way Forward, available on SSRN. Here……
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Case of the Day: CFTC v. Rubio
The case of the day is Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Rubio (S.D. Fla. 2012). The CFTC sued Jose S. Rubio, alleging that he had misused investor funds to pay his personal debts and expenses. The CFTC attempted service at Rubio’s last known addresses, but it was unsuccessful. Rubio had been questioned under oath during……
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Mediation and Arbitration Mechanism under the Mainland-Taiwan Bilateral Investment Agreement
Jie Huang is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Foreign Affairs Department at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade School of Law. On August 9, 2012, Mainland China and Taiwan concluded the Cross-Strait Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (hereinafter “BIA”) during the eighth Chen-Jiang Meeting (meeting between the Association for Relations across……
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Jie Huang Joins The IJA Brigade
Letters Blogatory warmly welcomes the newest member of the IJA Brigade, Jie Huang, associate professor of law and director of the Foreign Affairs Department at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade’s School of Law. I’m pleased to publish her post on the new Cross-Strait Bilateral Investment Protection & Promotion Agreement between China and Taiwan, a……