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Case of the Day: Chevron Corp. v. Republic of Ecuador
Today’s case of the day, Chevron Corp. v. Republic of Ecuador (D.D.C. 2013), is the latest installment in Chevron’s efforts to enforce a $96 million arbitral award it obtained against Ecuador in an investment treaty arbitration held in the Hague under the US/Ecuador bilateral investment treaty. This arbitration arose out of Chevron’s claim that it……
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Lago Agrio: The Argentine Supreme Court’s Decision, In English
Here is a translation of the Argentine Supreme Court’s decision vacating the embargo of the assets of Chevron’s subsidiaries and affiliates in Argentina.
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Two Modes of Comity
I’m very excited about my first paper on SSRN, Two Modes of Comity, which is to be published in the forthcoming issue of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. The paper is based on remarks I gave at JIL’s 2012 Fall Symposium in Philadelphia. Here is my point in a nutshell. Sometimes people……
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Lago Agrio: Argentina’s Attorney General Seeks Lifting of the Embargo
Argentina’s attorney general, Alejandra Magdalena Gils Carbó, has asked Argentina’s Supreme Court to lift the embargo or attachment of Chevron’s assets in Argentina, which the Argentine courts had entered under the Inter-American Convention on Execution of Preventive Measures. In November 2012, I reported on the embargo, and in January 2013 I reported on an Argentine……
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Case of the Day: Landstar Global Logistics v. Robinson & Robinson
The case of the day is Landstar Global Logistics, Inc. v. Robinson & Robinson, Inc. (Cal. Ct. App. 2013). Landstar had won a judgment against Robinson in the Florida state courts. Landstar brought an action to recognize and enforce the Florida judgment in the San Diego County Superior Court. The court recognized the Forida judgment……