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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]

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RabelsZ 87 (2023): Issue 4

Conflict of Laws

It contains the following contributions: ESSAYS Mareike Schmidt, Kulturalität der Rechtsanwendung und internationale Rechtsvereinheitlichung – Überlegungen am Beispiel des UN-Kaufrechts, 643–671, DOI: [link] Cultural Dimensions in the Application of Law and International Unification of Law – The Example of the CISG. –

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SCOTUS Clarifies Reach of FAA Exemption for Transportation Workers

Constitutional Law Reporter

To purchase those rights, they entered into contracts with Flowers that require any disputes to be arbitrated under the FAA. Pursuant to the FAA, arbitration agreements are “valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

JonathanTurley

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). In NAACP v.

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Federal Judge Suggests Abortion May Be Protected Under 13th Amendment’s Ban on Involuntary Servitude

JonathanTurley

The theory runs against the text, history, and case law of the Thirteenth Amendment. The court came to this question by a rather circuitous route. That academic attention is generally a reference to a 1990 Northwestern University Law Review article, which is cited by the Court in its order. 22, 2020. .”

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Will Biden’s Vaccine-Mandate “Work-Around” Work with the Supreme Court?

JonathanTurley

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that “hard cases make bad law.” While some may have contracted the virus in the workplace, courts may demand a closer nexus to a “grave danger” inherent in the workplace. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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