International Law Update articles

Recent articles from International Law Update

Alien Tort Claims Act.
February 1, 2009... IN CASE OF NATURALIZED AMERICAN CITIZEN, FORMERLY HIGH RANKING MILITARY OFFICIAL DURING SALVADORAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIP WHO INJURED PLAINTIFFS, CHARGED WITH CRIMES UNDER ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT AND TORTURE VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT, SIXTH CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT CIRCUMSTANCES IN EL SALVADOR GAVE COURT...

Arbitration.(Answers in Genesis and Creation Ministries International)
February 1, 2009... DESPITE ALREADY PENDING LITIGATION BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIAN RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN AUSTRALIAN COURT, SIXTH CIRCUIT FINDS THAT INTERNATIONAL COMITY DOES NOT STAND IN WAY OF U.S. FEDERAL SUIT TO COMPEL ARBITRATION UNDER ARBITRATION CONVENTION TO WHICH BOTH U.S. AND AUSTRALIA ARE...

International organizations.(International Finance Corporation)
February 1, 2009... DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT FINDS THAT THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION IN DISPUTE RESULTING FROM CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS OVER SALE OF INVESTMENT TO THIRD PARTY The International Finance Corporation (IFC) (Defendant) is an international organization with 178...

Maritime law (punitive damages).
February 1, 2009... IN NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD LITIGATION OVER EXXON'S SUPERTANKER OIL SPILL IN ALASKAN WATERS, DIVIDED U.S. SUPREME COURT HOLDS, AS MATTER OF MARITIME COMMON LAW, THAT INHERENT INCONSISTENCIES IN JURY DETERMINATIONS OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES JUSTIFIES LIMITING SAME TO NO MORE THAN AMOUNT OF COMPENSATORY...

Serbian court convicts four Serbs for war crimes of massacring forty-eight Kosovo Albanian civilians.(TOPICS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... On April 23, after a three-year trial, a Serbian war crimes court on Thursday convicted four former Serbian policemen for massacring 48 Kosovo Albanians at Suva Reka; it sentenced two of them to 20 years in prison. The other two received sentences of 15 or 13 years. The judges said that the...