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Breaking: Arbitral Panel Issues New Order In Favor Of Chevron
[UPDATE: I have a full post up on this here]. Published reports say that the tribunal considering Chevron’s claims against Ecuador under the US/Ecuador bilateral investment treaty has issued a new order in favor of Chevron. It’s not precisely clear what relief has been ordered, or how the order differs from the earlier interim award.……
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Case of the Day: L’Institute National De L’Audiovisuel v. Kultur International Films, Ltd.
The Paris Commercial Court goes two for two with today’s case of the day, L’Institute National De L’Audiovisuel v. Kultur International Films, Ltd. (D.N.J. 2012). INA is the repository of all French government audio and audiovisual archives, and it owns the copyright for many of the recordings. Kultur is a distributor of audiovisual recordings of……
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Peter H. Pfund on Federalism and U.S. Participation in Unification of Private Law
I want to draw readers’ attention to interesting remarks by Peter H. Pfund on Federalism and U.S. Participation in Intergovernmental Efforts to Unify Private Law, in 56 Vill. L. Rev. 559 (2011), which I’ve just had the chance to read. Mr. Pfund was an assistant legal advisor for private international law in the Office of……
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Invictus: Speculation About Enforcement Of The Ecuadoran Judgment
In Latin, invictus means “unconquered.” The word is most familiar to English readers from William Ernest Henley’s poem of that name: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not……
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Case of the Day: Servaas, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq
The case of the day is Servaas, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq (S.D.N.Y. 2012). According to the underlying judgment of the Paris Commercial Court, Servaas had a contract with the Ministry of Industry of Iraq for supply of equipment and machinery for a copper scrap refinery plant in Anbar Province. The contract, which the parties……