Pauline Toboulidis | November 7, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
In the mid-1950s, lawyers, judges, and legal scholars gathered in New York City to discuss ALI’s possible work on a project in the field of foreign relations law. Future project Reporter Adrian S. Fisher noted that, at the time of its introduction, this Restatement...
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...
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...
Paul B. Stephan | April 5, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Foreign relations law focuses on the domestic institutions that conduct a state’s relations with foreign actors, whether states, international organizations, or foreign persons. One of its tasks is to intervene between international and domestic law. This function...
Jennifer Morinigo | March 1, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Signed into law in January, the new law relates to foreign judgments (except for taxes, fines, or domestic relations) and protects against monetary judgments entered in nations whose courts fail to provide due process. From the New Jersey Law Revision Commission’s...
Pauline Toboulidis | February 6, 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
In Leidos Inc. v. Hellenic Republic, a security company (Leidos) hired during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Greece filed a petition in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to confirm and enforce a 2013 arbitral award it had obtained against the...
