Last Friday, Magistrate Judge Paul Kohler (District of Utah) granted a motion for alternative service of process, allowing ...

Over the past several months, three state appellate courts in the United States have examined whether a “talaq” divorce ...

This is just a reminder for those in the DC area that on Thursday and Friday the George Washington Law Review is hosting a ...

Two new cases have been filed seeking the return of artwork that was taken from Jewish people during the Nazi era. Both cases were brought under a 2024 California law, Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 338.2, ...

Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), the agencies and instrumentalities of foreign states are generally immune ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in United States v. Nasri that Fifth Amendment due process is violated if a federal court exercises in rem jurisdiction but lacks custody or ...

Signing of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Convention Last week, the D.C. Circuit held in Titan Consortium 1 v. Argentine Republic that suits brought in the ...

In Cimex, the Supreme Court faced a question about the impact of the Helms-Burton Act, which Congress passed in 1996 to increase economic and political pressure on Cuba, on the sovereign immunity of ...

Last week, in Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments LLC, the Solicitor General (SG) weighed in on whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction to enforce arbitral awards arising from disputes ...

Sociedad Concesionaria Metropolitana de Salud (SCMS) won a Chilean arbitral award against Astaldi. During the arbitration, Astaldi underwent restructuring and merged part of its business into Webuild ...

A transfer of copyright, such as an assignment of copyright or a license of copyright, is often executed with transnational scope. Business transactions in most types of copyrighted works are ...

The thirty-ninth annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. The survey covers significant cases decided in 2025 on choice of law, party autonomy, ...