EXPANDING THE JURISDICTIONAL BASIS FOR TRANSNATIONAL SECURITIES FRAUD CASES: A MINIMAL CONDUCT APPROACH

This Note examines subject matter jurisdiction in transnational securities fraud cases. The approaches adopted by the circuit courts and the Draft Restatement are critically analyzed, and the language and purpose of the Act are reviewed. A new test for determining subject matter jurisdiction in a United States forum is proposed, which will result in a Read More …

EXECUTIVE AGREEMENTS IN THE AFTERMATH OF WEINBERGER V. ROSSI: UNDERMINING THE CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY-MAKING POWER

This Note suggests limiting the use of international agreements which are not treaties. To accomplish this, it determines the proper limits of executive agreements and establishes a procedure by which courts should analyze their constitutional validity. Julie E. Arnold

EUROPEAN UNION LAW AND INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AT A CROSSROADS

It is no exaggeration to describe the relationship between the European Union and international arbitration as the most dramatic confrontation between two international legal regimes seen in a great many years. International law scholars commonly lament the “fragmentation” of international law,1 i.e., the co-existence of multiple international legal regimes whose competences overlap and whose policies Read More …

EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENSHIP AND THE UNLAWFUL DENIAL OF MEMBER STATE NATIONALITY

Increasingly some European Union (“EU”) Member States are undertaking practices to revoke or refuse nationality and thus EU citizenship, yet some of these practices are unlawful. It does not seem correct that a Member State’s unlawful act would have the result of denying an individual EU citizenship, but in principle EU Member States are the Read More …

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COMPETITION LAW- A REJOINDER BY JUDGE PESCATORE

This article contests the contention by Dr. Marenco that Judge Pescatore asserts a theory that Member States of the EED are prevented by Community law from intervening in the marketplace by legislation. Rather, Judge Pescatore explains how his article envisaged acts of legislation by which Member States specifically intervene in the normal play of competition. Read More …

ETHICS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN PALESTINE

On April 3, 2016, the Council of Palestinian Bar Association (“P.B.A.”) adopted the long-awaited Legal Profession Code of Ethics (hereinafter “the Code”). The Code came after a century of the legal profession’s practice in Palestine. Throughout the past century, there have been a set of ethical standards observed by Palestinian lawyers. Such standards were based Read More …

EMERGING DATA PROTECTION IN EUROPE; COMMUNITY LAW THROUGH THE CASES

The vastly increased capacities for the retention and dissemination of data on individuals created by the continuing development of computer technology has brought into sharper focus the conflict between the growing needs for information, in both the public and private sectors, of advanced industrial societies and their citizens’ rights to personal privacy and individual liberty. Read More …

EEC COMPETITION ACTIONS IN MEMBER STATES’ COURTS – CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES, DECLARATIONSN AND INJUNCTIONS FOR BREACH OF COMMUNITY ANTITRUST LAW

It seems likely that the need for protection against private claims for damages will cause more corporations to notify the Commission of their agreements and practices so as to obtain exemptions or, if appropriate, negative clearances. Whether this will cause a net increase in the Commission’s workload is not clear, since there will be a Read More …

ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF DEBTOR NATIONS: A COMPARISON OF MEXICAN AND ARGENTINE REACTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND STABILIZATION

Part I of this Note examines the concept of sovereignty and the role of the International Monetary Fund (Fund) as an instrument of supranational or joint sovereignty. Part II traces the development of economic dependence in Mexico and Argentina, examines the history of both public and private lending to these nations, and suggests that their Read More …

DISPUTE SETTLEMENT PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT ON TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE: THE UNITED STATES-JAPAN METAL BAT DISPUTE

In this Note, the dispute settlement case involving the marketing of United States-made metal baseball bats in Japan will be examined. The effectiveness of the Standards Code’s dispute settlement procedures will be analyzed through an examination of the metal bat case and its effect on Japan’s standards laws and certification systems. Fred J. Coccodrilli