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US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in commercial arbitral tribunals case

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a case concerning federal district courts’ authority to apply a particular statute to private commercial arbitral tribunals. The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard oral arguments in ZF Automotive US, Inc. Luxshare, Ltd. , In August 2017, Luxshare, Ltd. Luxshare) purchased business units from ZF Automotive US, Inc. (ZF)

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Judge rules MLB owes minor leagues compensation for unpaid wages

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However, in March 2018, Congress enacted the Save America’s Pastime Act (“SAP”) which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to exempt baseball players from the statute’s minimum wage and overtime requirements.

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UK Supreme Court in Jalla v Shell: the claim in Bonga spill is time barred

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Shell submitted, on the contrary, that the spill was a one-off event, that the cause of action accrued with the coast was flooded, and that the claim was time barred under the relevant limitation statutes. This degree of detail is certainly not surprising, due to the relevance of English law for the Nigerian legal system.

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Out now: the Swiss IPRG in English

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1294 (1990), 1295 , “Translation of Legal Texts: Three English Versions of the Swiss Federal Statute on Private International Law”). Indeed, a civil law codification usually “contains many legal terms which either do not exist in common law jurisdictions or have different connotations in the case of literal translations”.

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Out now: Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (ZVglRWiss) 121 (2022) No. 1

Conflict of Laws

Thereafter, the present essay analyses the term “network”, using the classic means of interpretation of statutes and secondary European law in light of the jurisprudence of the ECJ (IV.). Since its founding in 1949, the PRC have undertaken numerous endeavors to codify its civil law, which finally culminated in this codification.

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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

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It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. Concluding the first panel (and day) of the conference, Rachel Mulheron (Queen Mary University) shared her insights into “Punitive Damages in English Law”.

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The Chinese villages win a lawsuit in China to repatriate a Mummified Buddha Statue hold by a Dutch Collector —What Role has Private International Law Played?

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After an unsuccessful negotiation, the Committee of Yunchun Village and the Committee Dongpu Village sued Van Overeem to demand the statue’s return both in Fujian Province of China and in Amsterdam of the Netherlands at the end of 2015, [2] fearing that a statute of limitation might bar their case. De dr. int. privé(1967). [16]

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