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Supreme Court likely to let vape company’s FDA challenge proceed

SCOTUSBlog

In 2016, the FDA issued a rule indicating that the law applies to e-cigarettes and e-liquids. Suri countered that the provision merely directs courts to determine, based on the laws structure, who is adversely affected. A decision in the case is expected by summer. Justice Brett Kavanaugh echoed Roberts doubt.

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Report of the Oxford Conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws”

Conflict of Laws

On 20-21 March 2025, a conference on Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws was convened at St Hildas College, Oxford. This led him to discuss autonomous characterisation and functional comparative law approaches as the third direction through the work of Scipione Gemma and the changed views of Franz Kahn.

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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

Conflict of Laws

Very recently, Indonesian private international law has attracted significant scholarship in the English language. [1] 1] Dr Penasthika’s monograph (‘the monograph’) [2] is one such work that deserves attention for its compelling and comprehensive account of choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia.

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Territorial Jurisdiction for Breach of Contract in Nigeria or whatever

Conflict of Laws

Jurisdiction is a fundamental aspect of Nigerian procedural law. In Nigerian judicial parlance, we have become accustomed to the principle that the issue of jurisdiction can be raised at any time, even at the Nigerian Supreme Court – the highest court of the land – for the first time. [1] 6] This is wrong.

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A call for the wider study of Private International Law in Africa: A Review of Private International Law In Nigeria

Conflict of Laws

Written by Orji Agwu Uka, Senior Associate at Africa Law Practice (ALP)*. This is the fifth and final online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. Those pieces of advice and legal representations would have benefitted greatly from a comprehensive private international law treatise.

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

Conflict of Laws

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.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 5/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Gruber: A plea against ex post-adaptation of spousal inheritance rights Adaptation is recognized as a tool to eliminate the lack of coordination between the provisions of substantive law derived from different legal systems. This is exemplified by the decisions of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne for the international service of process.