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Lex & Forum 4/2021: A special on the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition of Foreign Judgments

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Professor Kerameus started his academic career at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in his home town, and completed his career at the University of Athens. He taught Civil Procedure, Comparative and International Procedural Law in Greek and other leading Universities abroad. In Memoriam Prof.

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The $24 Billion Judgment Against China in Missouri’s COVID Suit

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Dodge (George Washington University Law School) and first published on Transnational Litigation Blog. The original complaint asserted four claims under Missouri tort law: (1) public nuisance, (2) abnormally dangerous activity, (3) breach of duty by allowing the transmission of COVID, and (4) breach of duty by hoarding PPE.

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The Second Circuit Takes on the Clean Air Act’s International Air Pollution Provision and Climate Change

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The remaining question, then, is whether Section 115 preempts state law claims for some other reason. Michael Burger is the Executive Director of the Sabin Center and a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School. But that’s an analysis, and a set of arguments, for another day.

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Trumpunity: Sunstein Calls For Broader Use Of Defamation Lawsuit To Curtail “Fake News”

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The threat to the free press is obvious and was the basis for foundational court decisions. The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision over 50 years ago in New York Times v. Like “disinformation,” it is heavily laden with subjectivity.

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April 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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If selected for the program, the Impact Center hired an NYU Fellow to serve as special assistant attorney general to work in the attorney general’s (AG’s) office on matters related to the “advancement and defense of progressive clean energy, climate change, and environmental matters.”

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