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Europe rights court: Turkey liable for freedom of expression right violation

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday ruled that the Turkey government violated Article 10 freedom of expression of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by imposing law on citizens which prosecuted them for insulting the president. The case was brought before the ECHR in 2019 by Vedat ?orli.

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Out Now: Treatment of Foreign Law in Asia

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A book edited by Kazuaki Nishioka on Treatment of Foreign Law in Asia has just been published in the Hart Studies in Private International Law -Asia. The blurb read as follows: How do Asian courts ascertain, interpret, and apply a foreign law as the law governing the merits of the case?

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The New Saudi Civil Transaction Act and its Potential Impact on Private International Law in Saudi Arabia

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Like most of the civil law codifications in the region, the new law focuses mainly on the so-called “patrimonial law,” i.e., property rights and obligations (contractual and non-contractual).

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Implied Jurisdiction Agreements in International Commercial Contracts

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However, by their very nature, implied terms offer less clarity concerning the governing law and jurisdiction agreements. The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements (HCCA) governs exclusive choice of court agreements from a global perspective. Articles 3(c) and 5(1) address formal and substantive validity.

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Germany top court rules Berlin rent cap is unconstitutional

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The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany, ruled Thursday that Berlin’s Rent Cap Act is unconstitutional as it has undermined Germany’s Basic Law. The rent cap was enacted in February 2020 as an attempt by the local government to stifle rent hikes and gentrification. It froze rental rates for 1.5

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Traveling Judges and International Commercial Courts

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Our article suggests that traveling judges are a nearly entirely common law phenomenon—only a handful of judges were from mixed jurisdictions and only one was a civil law judge. Common law courts may be especially amenable to traveling judges.

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US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in commercial arbitral tribunals case

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ZF argued that it was limited adjudicative bodies that were created by the government and that exercised authority conferred by the government. Whereas Luxshare argued that the term was to be construed more broadly, encompassing essentially anybody governed by a foreign jurisdiction and its laws.

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