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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

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1] Dr Penasthika’s monograph (‘the monograph’) [2] is one such work that deserves attention for its compelling and comprehensive account of choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia. Chapter Two of this work proceeds to discuss choice of law in international commercial contracts in a global context.

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Women of Legal Tech: Nicole Morris

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Lawyers are using data analytics and predictive coding to review documents, draft contracts and to determine the outcome of court decisions. This project evolved from a case study about the Theranos hoax that I drafted for my course the Fundamentals of Innovation. The second project is the ethics of innovation.

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China Adopts Restrictive Theory of Foreign State Immunity

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In two prior posts ( here and here ), I discussed a draft of the FSIL (English translation here ). In this post I analyze the final version of the law, noting some of its key provision and identifying changes from the draft, some of which address issues that I had identified. Like the U.N. This provision also follows the U.N.

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First Issue for Journal of Private International Law for 2023

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These two provisions, already highly controversial in the drafting process, have been criticised as ill-suited to a voluntary process and likely to provoke ancillary dispute. To address this problem, the paper proceeds by presenting a normative framework, built principally on economic and contract theories, for enforcing FJCs.

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Are Alaska Native corporations Indian tribes? A multimillion-dollar question

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Today, the regional ANCs in particular are among the most important companies in Alaska, with billions in revenue from energy development, tourism and government contracting. ANCSA left unsettled, however, the status of Alaskan Native governments.

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ABLI-HCCH Webinar on HCCH 1970 Evidence Convention and Remote Taking of Evidence by Video-link: Summary and Key Takeaways

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Specifically, Dr Bernasconi highlighted that the Convention, with 63 Contracting Parties representing every major legal tradition, facilitated the transmission of thousands of requests for taking of evidence every year and allowed the use of video-link technology in the taking of evidence abroad.

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Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?

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Paralegals play an indispensable role in the legal process, handling things such as document review and analysis, legal research, drafting pleadings, and managing case files. Legal research skills Legal research skills are essential for finding and analyzing laws, regulations, and court decisions pertinent to the case you’re working on.

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