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Argentina Bonds: Argentina Held In Contempt
As reported a few days ago on Cartas Blogatorias (and elsewhere, of course), Judge Griesa has held Argentina in contempt of court for attempting to make payments to its bondholders in defiance of his prior orders. This raises interesting questions of US law and of public international law.
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Lago Agrio: Update On The Arbitral Award
As I suggested a few days ago, the Lago Agrio plaintiffs have trumpeted their intention to seek to compel the government of Ecuador to pay the $100+ million arbitral award in favor of Chevron, which is now final, to the LAPs rather than to Chevron. I am still trying to determine what happened to the……
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Book Review: Michael Goldhaber’s Crude Awakening: Chevron In Ecuador
I don’t know whether the timing of Michael Goldhaber’s new e-book, Crude Awakening, which came out shortly before Paul Barrett’s Law of the Jungle, was mere coincidence, but it is fair to say that for Steven Donziger, September is the cruelest month. Folks who have not been following the twists and turns of the Chevron/Ecuador……
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Book Review: Paul Barrett’s Law of the Jungle
As I was reading Paul M. Barrett’s new book, Law of the Jungle I was kicking myself. There’s obviously a market for popular treatments of the Chevron/Ecuador case. Barrett’s book is not the only one: Michael Goldhaber’s Crude Awakening has just been published, too (here’s my review). I coulda been a contender! When we spoke,……
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Lago Agrio: My Visit to Aguarico 4
Since returning from Ecuador, I’ve had two jobs: digging out from the pile of emails and papers that taking a week off from work generated, and doing my best Woodward and Bernstein imitation. I’ve tried to gather some more information about the sites we saw before writing about them. I’ve spent a fair amount of……