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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. This post is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog.].

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RabelsZ: New issue alert

Conflict of Laws

This article describes how private-law enforcement mechanisms so far have fallen short in ongoing human rights, environmental and climate litigation. The involved provisions are generally not compatible with each other, with the result that they cannot be applied to the same contract. 494–526, [link] Despite the exclusion which Art.

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

SCOTUSBlog

Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. He also founded the Constitutional Litigation Clinic (now the Constitutional Rights Clinic) at Rutgers. Huron’s impact extended beyond his work as a litigator. Born in Puerto Rico and orphaned at age nine, Celina Baez Sotomayor moved to New York during World War II.

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