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  • At Last: A Draft UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights

    Longtime guest poster Doug Cassel comments on the recently released draft of a treaty on business and human rights. Drafting a viable, meaningful, United Nations treaty on business and human rights would be daunting in the best of circumstances. It is even more challenging in the context of the current effort underway in Geneva. The……

  • Doug Cassel on Yaiguaje

    Friend of the blog and Chevron advocate Doug Cassel weighs in with his reaction to the Yaiguaje decision. Stay tuned for my own reaction this afternoon. Last week’s jurisdictional decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in Chevron v. Yaiguaje is a first-inning victory for the Lago Agrio plaintiffs, in their quest for a foreign……

  • Lago Agrio: Doug Cassel on the ICC Complaint

    Chevron advocate Doug Cassel gives his thoughts on the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ new complaint to the ICC prosecutor. Doug’s piece is pretty strident. In fact, he seems to take the complaint so seriously that I wonder whether a post like this really gets what the plaintiffs are trying to do. Maybe the ICC complaint should……

  • Chevron Wins. What Now?

    In this, the first of a series of responses to the RICO judgment in Chevron v. Donziger by representatives or allies of the protagonists, Chevron advocate Doug Cassel takes a victory lap and, in the last paragraph, holds out an olive branch. Two starkly differing narratives compete to explain the Lago Agrio environmental lawsuit against……

  • Lago Agrio: Doug Cassel on the New Ecuadoran Judgment

    Here is Letters Blogatory contributor and Chevron advocate Doug Cassel on the recent Ecudaoran judgment. I comment below the post. To update the late Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, “$9 billion here, $9 billion there—pretty soon you’re talking real money.” In manipulating their $19 billion Lago Agrio judgment against Chevron (reduced last week to a……

  • Doug Cassel on the New Partial Arbitral Award

    Chevron advocate, professor of law, and friend-of-Letters-Blogatory Doug Cassel weighs in on the new arbitral award in the Chevron-Ecuador investment treaty arbitration. In his recent post on the new arbitral award in the Chevron-Ecuador investment treaty arbitration, Ted Folkman wondered, first, whether Chevron “will seek to use the ultimate arbitral award as the basis for……

  • Lago Agrio: Doug Cassel on the Argentine Attorney General’s Opinion

    We welcome back Notre Dame law professor and Chevron advocate Doug Cassel, who offers a view of the Argentine Attorney General’s opinion on the embargo of Chevron’s assets in the country and her request for action by the Argentine Supreme Court. Doug focuses on the two issues I mentioned in my post on the opinion:……

  • Response to Ted Folkman

    In his various comments on the symposium contributions, our host Ted Folkman makes three points to which I respond here. Case-Specific Exceptions Generally First, Ted questions whether case-specific grounds for non-enforcement of foreign judgments are needed, so long as the systemic inadequacy of a foreign judicial system is a ground for non-enforcement. If the foreign……

  • Response to Aaron Marr Page

    Many thanks to Ted Folkman and the symposium contributors for a rich discussion.  Here I respond to Aaron Page’s post.  Later I will comment on Ted’s posts and comments addressed to me. In Page’s rhetorical view, the fraud in the Ecuadorian litigation against Chevron was a triviality in a teapot that should not deter US……

  • Forum Non Conveniens, Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, and the Chevron Litigation

    Douglass Cassel is Notre Dame Presidential Fellow and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. He was also an advocate for Chevron in proceedings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.  Views expressed herein are his personal views, and not necessarily those of Notre Dame Law School, Chevron or any other……