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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……
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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:……
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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……
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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……
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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……