Anton Moiseienko | September 13, 2023 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Below is the abstract for “The Freezing and Confiscation of Foreign Central Bank Assets: How Far Can Sanctions Go?,” available for download on SSRN. The freezing of $350 billion in Russian central bank assets in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine...
Pauline Toboulidis | November 1, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Courts across the country have already begun citing to the Restatement Fourth’s Tentative Drafts on Jurisdiction, Sovereign Immunity, and Treaties. These three portions of Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, were completed...
Forrest Tahdooahnippah | July 26, 2018 | American Indian Law
Last Friday, in an anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided a controversial case regarding the St. Regis Mohawk’s ability assert sovereign immunity in inter partes review proceedings. The Federal Circuit held that tribal...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Wenona T. Singel, Kaighn Smith, Jr. and Jennifer Morinigo | April 17, 2018 | American Indian Law
In the American Indian Law project draft that will be presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting, two Sections deal with tribal powers over nonmembers – § 34, Civil Regulatory and Adjudicatory Authority over Nonmembers and § 35, Tribal-Court Exhaustion Rule. This is the...
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...
