Curtis Bradley | February 3, 2023 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Below is the abstract for “The Political Question Doctrine and International Law,” available for download on SSRN. Under the political question doctrine, some issues are deemed to be inappropriate for judicial resolution. The modern version of the doctrine is...
Pauline Toboulidis | February 12, 2021 | International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
In 2019, The American Law Institute completed and approved Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration, a 19-year project in the making and the first of its kind. The Restatement identifies the role of the national...
John B. Bellinger, III | May 4, 2020 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
In an article for The Washington Post, John B. Bellinger III of Arnold & Porter details six lawsuits that have been filed against China in U.S. federal courts seeking damages for deaths, injuries and economic losses caused by COVID-19. “Five of the lawsuits...
Dan Shefet | May 1, 2020 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
IntroductionData mining and AI are increasingly becoming an integral part of the legal profession.Searching precedent and statutes is now done in a few seconds and most legal documents are available in standard format instantaneously.There seems to be no reason to...
John Fellas | February 28, 2020 | International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
A Restatement of the Law is something of a misnomer. Restatements of Law are neither law nor state-sanctioned. They are the work of a private, independent organization—the American Law Institute. Moreover, Restatements of Law do not literally “restate” the current...
