Foreign Relations and the City
Cities, or more particularly global cities, increasingly channel foreign relations that we think of belonging to nation–states. But one should not think that this is an entirely good thing, leading us towards enlightened progress and away from injustice. The foreign relations law that cities make has a dark side.
DOJ Announces Revised Export Control and Sanctions Enforcement Policy for Companies, Including Financial Institutions
On December 13, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division announced a new policy designed to encourage business organizations to make voluntary self-disclosures to the DOJ in connection with potentially willful export control and economic sanctions violations.
Top 10 American Indian Law Cases of 2019
Matthew Fletcher of Michigan State University College of Law shares his list of the top 10 American Indian Law Cases of 2019.
A French Perspective on Extraterritorial Enforcement of U.S. Laws
In June 2019, President Donald Trump suggested the European Union’s (EU) suits against certain American companies, such as Facebook and Google, were inappropriate legal actions.
Model law proposes automatic expungement of non-conviction records
In recent decades, criminal records have become widely available as a result of digitized records systems and a new commerce in background screening and data aggregation.
When Legislatures and Agencies Rely on Restatements of the Law
The ALI has been keeping tabs on judicial citations to Restatements of the Law since the early days. At the 1937 Annual Meeting, for instance, Herbert Goodrich reported that as of that time, “there were 459 citations by the Federal Courts, [and] 3023 by the state courts, making a total of 3482 court citations.”
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