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Sophie Turner v. Joe Jonas: A High-Profile Abduction Convention Case
The BBC has reported that the actress, Sophie Turner, has filed a petition under the Hague Abduction Convention for the return of her children to the UK. Her husband, the singer Joe Jonas, recently filed a divorce petition in Florida, and Turner filed the new petition in New York. The basic scheme of the Abduction……
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Let’s Meet Up In Paris!
Readers, I will be attending the IBA’s Annual Conference in Paris from October 29 to November 3. If you will be in Paris, and you would like to meet, please let me know. There are many interesting-sounding programs during the conference, but as with all such events, the best part is meeting up with colleagues……
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China Amends Its Foreign Sovereign Immunity Law
Bill Dodge has an excellent post at the Transnational Litigation Blog explaining China’s new Foreign State Immunity Law, which adopts the restrictive theory of foreign sovereign immunity. The United States and many other countries follow the restrictive theory, but China, until now, had been one of the holdouts for the older absolute theory of foreign……
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HCCH Announces E-Country Profiles
The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference has announced the launch of the e-Country Profiles project. The idea is for governments to provide information regarding the operation of several of the conventions in a standardized way that would be available on the HCCH website. In addition to the Service and Evidence Conventions, the project will……
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Elephant Habeas: Next Stop, Colorado
The Nonhuman Rights Project has taken its traveling show to Colorado, where it has filed a habeas corpus petition, supposedly on behalf of elephants kept by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society. The petition is highly similar to the earlier petitions, so I won’t review it in any detail. What a great country! Instead of advocating……