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More on the Validity of the PDVSA 2020 Bonds

Conflict of Laws

The Venezuelan Constitution requires legislative approval for contracts in the national public interest. We have seen this pattern in Venezuela, Mozambique, Ukraine, Zambia, Liberia, Puerto Rico, and in other sovereign and sub-sovereign borrowers. The deal went ahead anyway. Will that court’s decision offer clarity?

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RabelsZ: New issue alert

Conflict of Laws

a CISG sets out for a sale of goods for personal use, the UN Sales Law may in individual cases be applicable to cross-border sales contracts that are also subject to national consumer protection law. The involved provisions are generally not compatible with each other, with the result that they cannot be applied to the same contract.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

SCOTUSBlog

As attorney general, he ordered a moratorium on federal executions, helped draft the Voting Rights Act and Fair Housing Act, and refused to enforce a provision of federal law involving confessions by criminal suspects because he believed it undermined the Supreme Court’s 1966 decision in Miranda v.

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