Victor Morton | April 5, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
A lawsuit accusing the Saudi Arabian government of complicity in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and seeking billions of dollars in damages, can go forward, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan dismissed Saudi Arabia’s motion to...
Paul B. Stephan | April 5, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Foreign relations law focuses on the domestic institutions that conduct a state’s relations with foreign actors, whether states, international organizations, or foreign persons. One of its tasks is to intervene between international and domestic law. This function...
Jennifer Morinigo | March 1, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Signed into law in January, the new law relates to foreign judgments (except for taxes, fines, or domestic relations) and protects against monetary judgments entered in nations whose courts fail to provide due process. From the New Jersey Law Revision Commission’s...
Pauline Toboulidis | February 6, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
In Leidos Inc. v. Hellenic Republic, a security company (Leidos) hired during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Greece filed a petition in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to confirm and enforce a 2013 arbitral award it had obtained against the...
Curtis Bradley and Jack Goldsmith | December 1, 2017 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
We have a new draft paper, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, on how extensively the president has come to control international law for the United States, and what, if anything, should be done about it. As we explain at the end of this post, one of the central...
Ralf Michaels and Christopher A. Whytock | August 17, 2017 | Conflict of Laws, U.S. Foreign Relations Law
This Article [originally published in the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law] highlights three proposals for addressing internationalization in the Restatement of the Law Third, Conflict of Laws. INTRODUCTION Some sixteen years ago, on the occasion...
