By Jennifer Maher The Duke University School of Law has announced a new clinic to be housed at the law school. The Immigrant Rights Clinic will be Duke’s 11th clinical program and will offer students the opportunity to develop critical professional skills and knowledge while providing free legal services to immigrants who could not otherwise […]
By Sean W. Fernandes Weeks after the FTC fined Facebook $5 billion and the company entered a $100 million settlement with the SEC, Facebook has once again made significant privacy law news—this time on the other side of the Atlantic. On July 29, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a significant opinion in […]
By Jennifer Parser Site Inspections Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has started to make site inspections of employers hiring F-1 students on STEM Optional Practical Training. Usually with 48 hours’ notice, but not necessarily, employers must have a clear game plan in place which includes a designated and prepared company officer to meet with ICE, […]
By Communications Committee Topics: We encourage relevant, timely articles on substantive cross-border legal issues and any others that may be of interest to the international legal community in North Carolina. Length: All articles are limited to 300-400 words. For articles exceeding this world limit, the author may: 1) edit the article into one article of 300-400 […]
By Sarah E. Schtakleff Dear Fellow International Practice Section Members, Welcome to the 2019-2020 Bar Association year, I am honored to serve as your chair and would like to thank Jennifer Parser for her role as chair for the 2018-2019 Bar year. Did you notice anything different? Last year, we changed our name to “International […]
By Frank Laney Although mediation has strong societal values, mediation could be a very valuable and powerful tool to help the courts of Ukraine. The Ukrainian court system is and has been going through a crisis. Confidence in its fairness, objectivity, and impartiality is very low among Ukrainian citizens. But at the same time, the […]
By Stephen J. Orava, Bradford L. Ward, Rambod Behboodi, and Clinton R. Long After more than a decade of World Trade Organization (“WTO”) disputes over aircraft subsidies, the United States and European Union have published preliminary lists of products that could face billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs. On April 12, 2019, and in response […]
We are pleased to announce that the International Law and Practice Section has a new name. The NCBA Board of Governors has approved our changing our name from the International Law and Practice Section to the International Practice Section. Being lawyers, much thought — and discussion — went into this name change. Essentially, our new […]
By Thomas McCall and Emily Doll Originally published 24 October 2018 by Law360. Updated by the authors March 2019. In May 2010, the International Bar Association (“IBA”) adopted the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration—a revised version of the original 1999 IBA Rules which, in turn, had replaced the IBA Supplementary […]
By Jennifer Parser The state of US immigration law is in the throes of tremendous change, under unprecedented stresses as an old system struggles to deal with today’s reality. Mass migration is common and will only increase, the World Bank attributing 140 million alone due to climate change by 2050, seen today both by the […]