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Hague Securities Convention: The Explanatory Report
As I noted a few months ago, the Hague Securities Convention has now come into force. The Hague Conference has now published a second edition of the explanatory report that accompanies the Convention.
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Hague Securities Convention Will Soon Come Into Force
I remember receiving a gift of a few shares of stock in some large company or other when I was a kid. I received an engraved certificate with the company’s logo, my name, and a lot of legalese that at the time I couldn’t decipher. The naive thought, of course, is that the piece of……
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Save The Date! “Toward a Global Framework for International Commercial Transactions: Implementing the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts”
Readers, the Hague Conference and the University of Lucerne are hosting a conference on the new Hague Principles on September 8 and 9, 2016 in Lucerne. Here at Letters Blogatory we have taken a pretty good look at the new Principles in light of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws. The event looks terrific—it……
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Event Announcement: The Effects of the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements on International Arbitration
Readers, if you are in Washington on February 10, I invite you to attend a panel discussion on “The Effects of the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements on International Arbitration,” being held at Jones Day’s Washington office from 9 to 11 a.m. The event is part of the Georgetown International Arbitration Society’s fourth……
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Hague Conference: The Experts’ Group Issues Its Report
Earlier this year, the Council on General Affairs and Policy of the Hague Conference established an Experts’ Group on the Use of Video-Link and other Modern Technologies in the Taking of Evidence Abroad. The mandate of the group was to “investigate the issues that may arise with the use of video-link and other modern technologies……