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27 Feb 2019, 5:42 pm by Amy Howe
The Supreme Court today ruled that, just like foreign countries, international organizations such as the World Bank can be sued in U.S. courts when they are acting as private players in the market. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 10:25 am
It then considers the “second sword”, the use of market power by sovereign investors to influence compliance oriented corporate governance reform that parallels those advanced by prosecutors. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 2:37 pm by admin
Because eminent domain cases present a conflict between the rights of property owners and the right of a sovereign government to seize property for public use, courts are required to strike a delicate balance. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 5:56 pm by Dennis Crouch
And that goes all the way back to Dollar Savings Bank in the 19th Century. [read post]
To be clear, we are not suggesting that, for example, the United States has agreed that China’s theft of intellectual property and personally identifiable information, Russia’s interference in U.S. elections, and North Korea’s exploitation of the SWIFT banking system are acceptable behaviors. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 8:49 am by Elena Chachko
It found that the treaty could apply to commercial—as opposed to sovereign—activity of the Central Bank of Iran, and that more facts are necessary to ascertain the nature of its activities in the U.S. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 11:17 am by Charles Gallmeyer
In preliminary objections, the US had contested the ICJ’s jurisdiction on three counts: (1) that Executive Order 13599, which called for the freezing of Iranian assets, fell outside the scope of the US-Iran Treaty of Amity; (2) that the Treaty of Amity does not provide for sovereign immunity and thus the ICJ does not have jurisdiction to consider Iran’s claims of the US violating customary international law principles of sovereign immunity; and (3) that Iran cannot… [read post]
10 Feb 2019, 5:23 am by Simon Lester
Although the Bank of England refused comment, top news agencies reported that the bank “is reluctant to release” Venezuelan gold reserves (Reuters, Bloomberg, CNN). [read post]
3 Feb 2019, 6:45 am by Mark Weidemaier
And the sovereign can change that law to facilitate a restructuring. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 10:51 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer; Tauluseinä Tavelväggen, Wall of Printings (1977); Nörrköping Art Museum Turku Findland))Every year for almost 25 years, the Corporate Practice Commentator (with great thanks to Robert Thompson (Georgetown)) announces the results of its annual poll to select the ten best corporate and securities articles. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 12:00 am by Jan von Hein
This is likely due to the outbreak of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. [read post]
27 Jan 2019, 11:14 am by Mitu Gulati
And Jason Yackee tackles the corruption defense for sovereigns in the BIT context here. [read post]
25 Jan 2019, 7:01 am by Peter D. Hardy and Marjorie J. Peerce
  However, when a cryptocurrency transaction does include sovereign currency, it may be money transmission depending on how the sovereign currency is handled. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 12:06 pm by Mark Weidemaier
To be sure, sovereign debt practice (and maybe law) generally does not let a government avoid debts incurred by a predecessor, even when the debt is odious or illegitimate. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 5:00 am by Andrew Miller
The separation of business and personal assets means that the owner of a bankrupt business can sometimes walk away with a healthy bank account and all of their prized possessions, including homes and cars. [read post]
18 Jan 2019, 1:05 pm by John K. Ross
New on the Short Circuit podcast: No Fly List games and a pair of sovereign immunity cases. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 6:51 pm
Plaintiffs advance at least five distinct theories of how they have been, or will be, injured due to the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 census, namely: (1) diminished political representation, both between and within states; (2) loss in government funds, again both between and within states; (3) harm to the sovereign interests of state and local governments caused by degradation of the census data upon which they rely; (4) diversion of resources; and (5) loss of privacy. [read post]