International Law
International law attorneys must be well-versed in cross-border laws and regulations. The rise of globalization has brought unique challenges to those lawyers who represent U.S. interests abroad. Whether your practice involves international M&A developments in China or the increasing opportunities for small businesses in both importing and exporting, FindLaw’s Corporate Counsel Center has a library of articles tailored to your client’s legal needs. You can also find information on how to represent your client in overseas prosecution of alleged antitrust violations and a brief summary of the Hague Convention on taking evidence abroad in both civil and commercial ligation.
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International Law Articles
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Quad Officials Discuss Structure of Year 2000 WTO Services Talks
The Quad countries have begun initial discussions regarding the structure for the next round of WTO services talks. At this time, however, it is not clear whether the Quad officials have agreed on an approach to the negotiations. Some reports say a ...
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WTO Talks To Continue in Geneva after Seattle Failure
The failure this month of the Seattle Ministerial this month effectively ends the prospects for a comprehensive round of trade negotiations in the foreseeable future. Although negotiations on services and agriculture technically are required to ...
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Risks of Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws Based on Wholly Foreign Conduct
Recent developments in the application of federal antitrust laws indicate that foreign companies may be held liable for civil and criminal violations based on activity occurring entirely overseas. Such activity is actionable in the United States ...
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SEC Instructed to Review Public Company Ties to States Identified as Sponsoring Terrorism
Public companies doing business with "terrorist-sponsoring states" may come under intensified scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission due to a paragraph slipped into a conference committee report on a major appropriations bill recently ...
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Sovereign Wealth, Private Equity, and Hedge Funds … Oh My
Americans have long exhibited a suspicion of concentrated pools of capital controlled by small groups of people. During convulsive economic times, with little understanding as to the causes and great fear as to the effects of the turmoil, we have ...
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Summary of Encryption Policy Update
Hardware and software exports of up to "56 bits DES and equivalent" products will be eligible for license exception treatment to all users and destinations (except the seven State supporters of terrorism) after a one-time technical review. No ...
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SAFETY Act Provides Sweeping Liability Limitations for Qualified Anti-Terrorism Products and Services
On July 11, 2003, the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") issued its long-awaited proposed rule to implement Subtitle G of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, titled "Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002" (the ...
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Piecing Together the Encryption Puzzle
No one issue currently galvanizes the Internet community quite so much as the Administration's encryption policy. "Key recovery" has become the mantra of FBI Director Louis B. Freeh, as well as many in Congress. Like the Internet itself, the state ...
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Terrorism Insurance: Congress to the Rescue?
As the cost of terrorism insurance soared, many borrowers found it difficult to secure insurers willing to provide coverage for terrorism at reasonable rates. Prior to September 11, 2001, insurers and reinsurers did not deem the risk of terrorist ...
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The Practitioner International Law, Overseas Offenses Criminal Prosecution of Antitrust Violations Abroad
Last year the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, addressing an issue of first impression, held that U.S. courts could criminally prosecute foreign parties' violations of U.S. antitrust laws, even where the conduct took place wholly outside the ...
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