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Union Pacific Wants Attys Axed From Contamination Row

Law 360

Freight rail operator Union Pacific asked a California federal judge this week to disqualify Allen Matkins attorneys representing the defendants in its contamination lawsuit, alleging that actions taken by their colleagues who previously represented the company exposed the lawyers to confidential information in violation of procedural law.

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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)

Conflict of Laws

Very recently, Indonesian private international law has attracted significant scholarship in the English language. [1] 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.

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China formally arrests Australian journalist after 6 months of heavily-criticized detention

JURIST

” The formal arrest comes six months after Lei was first taken into custody under controversial Chinese detention laws. Cheng was detained by Chinese authorities in August under Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL), provided for by China’s Criminal Procedure Law.

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Peru dispatch: corruption allegations made by arrested ex-advisor to dismissed Prosecutor throw new light on an old issue

JURIST

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas , Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. Jose Daniel Yampy Meche is a law student from UNSAAC and a member of CIED. As preventive rules we find: Law No.

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The Hidden Treasure Trove of Conflicts of Law: the Case Law of the Mixed Courts of the Colonial Era

Conflict of Laws

The history of private international law (or ‘conflict of laws’) is incomplete. Private international law textbooks have always referred to the essentials of the history of our discipline. [1] Conflict of laws systems have been around much longer and are definitely not uniquely western. legal pluralism [6] ) are.

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Conflict-Checking Software For Law Firms: The Value of Full-Text Search

MyCase

Your law firm’s intake process is an important part of profitability because, without clients, your firm has no income. Allows lawyers to communicate with others in the firm who have relevant information. What Records Must be Maintained by Law Firms? According to the NYC Ethics Committee, an effective system: .

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University of Bologna Summer School on Transnational Jurisdiction

Conflict of Laws

The Faculty of the Summer School is composed of experts from different jurisdictions, focusing on several aspects of private international and procedural law. Michele Angelo Lupoi, who teaches Civil Procedural Law and European Judicial Cooperation at the University of Bologna. The Director of the School is Prof.