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Forum Selection Clauses, Afghanistan, and the United States
One Afghanistan-based company sues another in commercial court in Afghanistan. The plaintiff wins at trial. The Afghanistan Supreme Court reverses. It orders the parties to resolve their dispute in the United States. The plaintiff files suit in the United States. Chaos ensues. This may sound like an unlikely scenario. It is, however, a concise description […]
Extraterritorial Application of Chinese Personal Information Protection Law: A Comparative Study with GDPR
Written by Huiying Zhang, PhD Candidate at the Wuhan University Institute of International Law China enacted the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) at the 30th Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress on August 20, 2021. This is the first comprehensive national law in China concerning personal information protection and regulating […]
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Book Launch: International Child Abduction, Mayela Celis (Madrid: Dykinson, 2023) on 5 October 2023 (in Spanish)
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Symposium on Reparation for “Crimes of the Past” in Strasbourg (Oct. 19–20)
Written by Dr. Delphine Porcheron, Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg Law Faculty On October 19 and 20, the University of Strasbourg is organizing a symposium on Reparation for “Crimes of the Past”. Mass crimes, deportations, spoliations, colonial exploitation, slavery… The “crimes of the past” are first known to us as historical facts. Their […]