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Call for Paper: Private International Law and Business Compliance in Asia Pacific

Conflict of Laws

This national conference will be held on 21 February 2024 at The University of Sydney Law School in Australia. The event will take place at the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney Law School in Sydney, Australia, on February 21, 2024 in a hybrid format (in-person or online presentation).

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The Trump Trial in Manhattan is an Indictment of the New York Legal System

JonathanTurley

After an absurd $450 million decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. However, this is a Pyrrhic victory for the New York legal system.

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The Odor of Mendacity: 2024 Could Turn on Smell of Selective Prosecution from Georgia to New York

JonathanTurley

It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system. These and other cases have fulfilled Trump’s narrative about a politically weaponized legal system. Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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Nightmare Scenario: How a Trump Trial Could Now Run Up to (or Through) the 2024 Election

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Hill on real possibility of a federal trial of former president Donald Trump just before or even through the 2024 election. The claim that this schedule is the result of treating Trump like other criminal defendants is increasingly dubious given statements of courts and the Special Counsel. It is not a law.”

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Biden’s Break-The-Glass Option: Pardon Hunter and Withdraw from the 2024 Election

JonathanTurley

Facing an impeachment inquiry , low public support , and a son in the legal dock, Biden could use the case to close out his political career. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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Jack Smith’s War on Free Speech: Attorney General Garland Should Rein in His Special Counsel

JonathanTurley

The court dismissed the “tawdry tales” offered by the DOJ and declared that it was far more concerned with the damage that Smith was causing to the legal system with his virtually limitless interpretation of criminality. Some of us have previously denounced the gag order issued by U.S.

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French Supreme court ruling in the Lafarge case: the private international law side of transnational criminal litigations

Conflict of Laws

Written by Hadrien Pauchard (assistant researcher at Sciences Po Law School) In the Lafarge case (Cass. Following this ruling, the Defendants petitioned to the French Supreme Court to have the charges annulled, arguing that French law did not apply to the litigious employment relationship.