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Article of the Day: Jie Huang on Recognition of Judgments In Hong Kong
In today’s article of the day, Conflicts Between Civil Law and Common Law in Judgment Recognition and Enforcement: When is the Finality Dispute Final?, 29 Wis. Int’l L. J. 70 (2011), Professor Jie Huang, of the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade’s School of Law, examines the difficulties involved in recognition and enforcement of Mainland Chinese……
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Legislation of the Day: Ecuador To Refuse To Enforce Spanish Mortgages
Nicolás Zambrana Tévar has posted at Conflict of Laws.net on an unusual and maybe ridiculous bill before the Ecuadoran parliament on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. I’ve written before about the SPEECH Act, the new US statute that forbids recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in defamation cases unless the foreign proceedings gave……
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Update on the Belfast Project Case: The Proposed Intervenors’ New Brief
We return today to the Belfast Project saga. If you haven’t been following this, the case involves a request by the government of the UK for judicial assistance under the US/UK mutual legal assistance treaty for issuance of a subpoena to obtain oral histories that participants in the Northern Ireland conflict gave to researchers at……
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Developments in the Boston College Belfast Project Case
Last week, there was a new development in the UK’s efforts to obtain judicial assistance in the US and obtain materials from the Belfast Project, Boston College’s oral history project on the conflict in Northern Ireland, for use in a UK criminal prosecution. Our previous coverage is here and here. Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre,……
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Article of the Day: Christina Weston on “The Enforcement Loophole”
The concern about what Professors Whytock and Robertson have called the transnational access to justice gap is front and center in a new student article in the Emory International Law Review by Christina Weston, called The Enforcement Loophole: Judgment-Recognition Defenses as a Loophole to Corporate Accountability for Conduct Abroad, 25 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 731……