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The Hague Conference Turns 125
Letters Blogatory congratulates the Hague Conference on Private International Law on its 125th anniversary! As Letters Blogatory readers know, the Hague Conference organizes diplomatic meetings and meetings of experts that lead to the promulgation of private international law conventions such as the Service and Evidence Conventions and many others. The Conference then monitors the operation……
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Case of the Day: G2A.com v. United States
The case of the day is G2A.com Sp. z.o.o. v. United States (D. Del. 2018). G2A was a Polish company. The Polish government requested judicial assistance from the US government under the US/Poland Tax Treaty in connection with a Polish tax investigation concerning G2A. Specifically, the Polish government sought evidence from the Corporation Trust Co.,……
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Lago Agrio: Estoppel in the Arbitral Award
This is the second post on the new award in the Chevron/Ecuador arbitration. I think there will be a few more. I wrote this on Sunday, and it’s possible that there has been some relevant coverage from others since then, so I hope that events haven’t overtaken this post! One critique of a claim like……
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Lago Agrio: Chevron Wins Investment Treaty Arbitration Against Ecuador
The tribunal hearing the investment treaty dispute between Chevron and Ecuador has issued a partial award that decides the case in Chevron’s favor. I learned of the award on Friday, and there’s a lot in there that eventually I want to write about. But I do want to take an initial look at an issue……
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No Profile In Courage
The New York Times published a piece yesterday by an anonymous “senior official in the Trump administration.” The official declared himself or herself to be part of the “resistance,” a group of senior officials who “believe our first duty is to this country,” and who “have vowed to do what we can to preserve our……