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8 Nov 2010, 2:53 pm by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford “By no means should Google Maps be used as a reference to decide military actions between two countries. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 12:58 pm by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford That’s a remarkable statement, but it actually is true. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 9:37 pm by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford Harold Koh’s keynote address today at the University of Virginia conference did a nice job surveying the legal landscape from the Legal Adviser’s perspective. [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 2:49 pm by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford The transcript for the oral argument in Abbott v. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 7:50 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford Here’s a wonderful story from my friend and former student Jeff Cook on the wonderful work he is doing in Cambodia with International Justice Mission to fight child prostitution. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 10:21 am
by Roger Alford The Ninth Circuit last week argued that it did not have personal jurisdiction over DaimlerChrysler Corporation AG because it did not have continuous and systematic contacts with the forum. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 10:21 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford Last week Julian Ku and I had the pleasure of working with Business Roundtable and a wonderful group of international law scholars-Rudolf Dolzer, Burkhard Hess, Herbert Kronke, Davis Robinson, Christoph Schreuer, and Janet Walker-on a Second Circuit amicus brief addressing the propriety of antisuit injunctions under international law. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 8:33 am
by Roger Alford Today it was announced that Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 10:44 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford Today’s announcement that Chinese political dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace Prize is welcome news. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 10:15 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford As discussed here, one of the key arguments that the Ecuador plaintiffs are making in response to Chevron’s Motion is that the damaging quotes are being taken out of context. [read post]
9 May 2012, 9:00 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford When is an arbitral panel an international tribunal for purposes of Section 1782? [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 8:39 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford Having followed the terrorism litigation against Iran for years, I was fascinated to read of the recent legislation—Section 502 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights–that creates a legislative fix for victims of one particular group of terrorist victims but not thousands of others. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 8:34 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford On March 7, a federal court in New York issued an anti-suit injunction order enjoining Ecuador plaintiffs from enforcing the $9 billion Ecuador judgment against Chevron. [read post]
26 May 2010, 6:10 pm by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford The news coming out of China of ten suicide deaths at Foxconn industrial park is terribly distressing. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 9:49 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford When Bill Dodge, Michael Ramsey and David Sloss approached me to write a chapter for their forthcoming book, I told them that I would be interested in doing so as long as I did not have to rehash the tired contemporary debate about constitutional comparativism. [read post]
2 May 2011, 8:55 am by Roger Alford
by Roger Alford The best lines in President Obama's speech last night were at the beginning: It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 3:13 pm
Over at Opinio Juris (Link), Roger Alford of Pepperdine Law School (Link) has an interesting post about American exceptionalism. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 9:44 am
by Roger Alford This story from the New York Times about the corruption of Teodoro Obiang certainly hits close to home. [read post]
12 Feb 2012, 10:21 am by Kenneth Anderson
Following the splendid University of Virginia School of Law conference last Friday at which DOS Legal Adviser Harold Koh delivered the keynote address, Notre Dame professor and Opinio Juris blogger Roger Alford commented on part of Koh’s speech in which he defended himself against various charges of inconsistency and even hypocrisy in not holding to all the views he expressed as an academic over several decades. [read post]