Conflict of Laws

MARCH 1, 2024

Conventions & Instruments On 1 February 2024, the 2007 Child Support Convention entered into force for Canada. On 13 February 2024, Albania signed the 2005 Choice of Court Convention and the 2007 Maintenance Obligations Protocol. On 28 February 2024, the 2007 Child Support Convention entered into force for Azerbaijan.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 24, 2024

A must-have feature of legal practice management platforms, case management software, centralizes all your case files, communications, billing, and scheduling in one platform — it’s truly like having a command center for your law firm. New law firm technology can produce error-free documents swiftly, saving time and resources.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 25, 2024

These were the top 7 actionable strategies and tips for litigation paralegals to accelerate their paralegal career in 2024. A document management system that organizes the electronic version of everything in the case, like the Microsoft Word documents that you’re drafting, memos, etc.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2024

The UN Mechanism heard testimonies on racial profiling in Italy’s law enforcement agencies, which “create harmful and spurious associations of Blackness with criminality and delinquency,” Chairperson Akua Kuenyehia said. This practice erodes trust in law enforcement, and as a result, reduces law enforcement effectiveness.”

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Several legal technology trends are set to reshape how law firms operate. Artificial Intelligence and GenAI in the Legal Industry One of the most prominent law firm technology trends is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Generative AI (GenAI).

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2021

The German Parliament passed a law on Friday requiring large and medium-sized businesses to do their due diligence in combating human rights violations along their supply chain. The law introduces a shift to mandatory compliance with international norms on labor exploitation. The Bundestag adopted the draft law by a large majority.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 10, 2024

The key to accelerating your career in 2024 is learning eDiscovery and this blog is going to give you a 3-step plan for litigation paralegals to follow to make it happen. I feel so passionate about litigation paralegals learning about eDiscovery because I’ve seen what it can do for litigation paralegals’ careers.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The United Nations Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seems to have a blind spot for the role of private and private international law. The Chinese Journal of Transnational Law invites submissions for its Vol. The Chinese Journal of Transnational Law invites submissions for its Vol. 3 (2023).

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 1, 2024

Wagner: European Conflict of Law 2023: Time of the Trilogue This article provides an overview of developments in Brussels in the field of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters from January 2023 until December 2023. It also refers to the laws enacted at the national level in Germany as a result of new European instruments.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

CHINESE JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW Call for Papers Special Issue: Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Asia The United Nations Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seems to have a blind spot for the role of private and private international law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The government of the Australian state of Tasmania is seeking to ban conversion therapy practices in a recently released draft legislation. ” The draft legislation is meant to “prevent harm caused by practices that attempt to change or eradicate a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We know what you must be thinking: “With all this crystal formation, why don’t they call them Glitter boxes?” (Apologies to our readers—word play is FDA Law Blog’s catnip.) CVM explicitly states in the draft guidance that preventing one urolith type while potentially promoting formation of the other is not supportive of a general UTH claim.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 19, 2024

The United Nations Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seems to have a blind spot for the role of private and private international law. The Chinese Journal of Transnational Law invites submissions for its Vol. The Chinese Journal of Transnational Law invites submissions for its Vol. 3 (2023).

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 7, 2024

Georgia Antonopoulou (University of Birmingham) From 24 to 26 September 2024 , the International Writing Workshop ‘Reimagining Access to Justice: An Equitable Research Partnership with Southeast Asia’ will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia. Antonopoulou, Birmingham Law School, the University of Birmingham ( g.antonopoulou@bham.ac.uk ).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The experts highlighted a disturbing surge in political violence , the arrest of senior opposition figures, and the widespread arbitrary detention of political activists in the lead-up to the national elections slated for 2024. However, the UN experts noted that thousands of cases related to freedom of expression remain pending under the DSA.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) has issued a call for papers, in particular for private international law perspectives of public interest litigation. We are interested in papers focusing on questions of private international law and/or public international law with regard to this phenomenon in a broad sense.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

Throssell further wrote that detaining individuals to punish them for exercising the freedom of expression does not strictly adhere to international human rights law and highlighted concerns about a proposed media law that could limit the freedom of expression.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The other, Lexis Create with Lexis+ AI, brings generative AI drafting assistance to the Lexis Create add-in for Microsoft Word. Now, with the addition of Lexis+ AI, Lexis Create users get access to generative AI functions directly while drafting a document in Microsoft Word. Generate a draft. Summarize a case.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we head into 2024, let’s recap some great resources for in-house counsel that made a large impact in 2023: Sterling Miller’s “Ten Things” Blog : With a keen eye and impressive wit, Sterling Miller provided a tremendous number of informative and useful resources for in-house counsel in 2023. Let us know !

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 5, 2024

But the decision to include these sections in the latest draft of the IECC has generated sharp disagreement among trade associations, local governments, and energy efficiency advocates. The ICC’s Model Codes Under State Law The actual building codes enforceable in a given U.S. jurisdiction are set under state or local law.

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

According to the Legal Industry Report 2024 , nearly one-quarter (24%) of law firms have adopted legal-specific generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools. Survey respondents confirmed they use GAI to streamline firm processes, from drafting marketing content to finding specific statutes. Drafting marketing content.

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Customs & International Trade Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade law news: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) CBP & HSI repatriate precious cultural artifact to Mexico. export laws, and the laundering of ransoms paid for U.S. The item in question was a clay pot crafted between 900 and 1521 A.D. in Northern Mexico.

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Customs & International Trade Law

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Reminder: the submission period for the 2024 Customs Broker Triennial Status Report (TSR) and associated $100 filing fee for all licensed customs brokers opened December 18, 2023. The TSR and $100 fee is due by February 29, 2024. The 2017 final guidance remains in effect until this draft guidance is finalized. U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

In the 2022 draft Guidance for Cybersecurity in Medical Devices , FDA recommends only a subset of the documentation be included in IDE applications, including (1) cybersecurity risks as part of Informed Consent Form, (2) global, multi-patient and updateability/patchability views, (3) security use case views for functionality with safety risks (e.g.,

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 11, 2023

4 Pro Tips for Drafting Billable Time Entries How much do you love drafting billable time entries? In today’s blog, I’m going to give you four quick tips to help you draft better time entries. Think about some of those questions when you’re drafting your time entry. We spent four hours. Or worse yet, you spent.1

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It also previewed its coming integration of Casetext CoCounsel as an AI legal assistant across multiple TR products, including Westlaw Precision, Practical Law, Document Intelligence, and HighQ. Starting in 2024, TR will begin adding AI-assisted research to Westlaw in markets outside the U.S.,

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JURIST

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The bill was drafted in the context of a Public Health Emergency that has been in place in British Columbia since 2016 due to a sharp uptick in drug use. In November, HRNA challenged the act’s constitutionality, requesting an interim injunction of the bill until March 31, 2024.

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JURIST

MARCH 3, 2022

The United Nations Environment Assembly Wednesday approved a resolution to establish the first-ever global agreement on plastic pollution, along with a series of draft resolutions concerning biodiversity, health, the green economy, and circularity. ” The treaty will likely be finalized in 2024.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

Three primary areas of case management responsibility include: Draft pleadings and discovery. Draft pleadings and discovery. Draft pleadings and discovery. Many attorneys also rely on the paralegal to do the first-round draft of pleadings that will be filed with the court. Assist at trial. What does that mean?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 10, 2024

The three much-awaited judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on April 9, 2024 are truly historic and unprecedented. In doing so, the Court upheld the high threshold of a minimum level of severity in its earlier case law (para. In Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In its judgment of 8 February 2024, the CJEU had to decide whether “ the application of the Brussels Ibis Regulation be based solely on the fact that two parties with their seat in the same Member State agree on the jurisdiction of courts of another EU Member State.”

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Written by NIE Yuxin, Wuhan University Institute of International Law 1. Background China’s Civil Procedure Law was enacted in April 1991 by the Fourth Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress. The amendment does not address some matters that remain unclear in Chinese law. Jurisdiction 2.1 Jurisdiction 2.1 276, para.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Hsuanyeh Law Group v. 2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. 2013 WL 6242843, at *1 (N.D.

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Patently O

APRIL 10, 2024

For instance: if an AI tool is used in drafting or editing a document, the party must still review its contents and ensure the paper is in accordance with the certifications being made. Users must ensure that their use of these tools does not violate federal and state laws, as well as USPTO regulations and policies.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 15, 2023

In terms of work relating to possible new legislative instruments, CGAP mandated the establishment of a Working Group on private international law (PIL) matters related to legal parentage generally, including legal parentage resulting from an international surrogacy arrangement.

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MyCase

MAY 2, 2024

Join us as we reveal the top legal AI companies trailblazing the way to a more efficient and successful 2024 and beyond. Its platform offers a range of features to improve the overall efficiency and productivity of law firms. Case Status Case Status is mobile client engagement software designed for law firms. or schedule a demo.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 6, 2023

It will enter into force for Azerbaijan on 28 February 2024. Pursuant to its mandate, the Working Group made further progress on the development of draft provisions for a possible future instrument on parallel litigation in civil or commercial matters. More information is available here. More information is available here.

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