The case is Time Sport International SAS v. Décathlon France SAS, Décathlon SA et DHG Knauer GmbH, Cour de Cassation comm., March 17, 2021, PIBD 1159-III-1. I have blogged
about this case, involving a patent relating to bicycle helmets, twice before, first after the initial decision of the Tribunal de la grande instance de Paris in [...]
The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) is seeking a Legal Officer (Maternity Leave Replacement). The successful candidate will work
primarily in the field of family law, focusing on the 1980 Child Abduction and 1996 Child Protection Conventions as well as on the Family Agreements project. [...]
In December 2020, we reported about the Opinion presented by Advocate Generale Campos Sánchez-Bordona in the case Vereniging van Effectenbezitters, C-709/19. Today, the Court
delivered its judgment in this case. [...]
Think of Myanmar, and the awful consequences of the military coup which are continuing to unfold. One of these consequences – among the least awful, but among the more legally
interesting – is that in the immediate aftermath of the coup it is unclear which set of individuals is the government of that state, entitled to represent it internationally. [...]
President Joe Biden’s announcement that all remaining U.S. forces will exit Afghanistan by Sept. 11 has prompted well-reasoned debate as to the merits and risks of the
plan. In justifying his decision, the president argued that “only the Afghans have the right and responsibility to lead their country, and that more and endless [...]
Ivó Coca-Vila (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law) has posted What’s Really Wrong with Fining Crimes? On the Hard Treatment of Criminal Monetary
Fines (Forthcoming in Criminal Law and Philosophy (2021)) on SSRN. Here is... [...]
On Monday, the AFL-CIO and some other groups announced the filing of a petition under the USMCA rapid response labor mechanism (for background on this procedure, see Kathleen's
post here). Now today, USTR announced that it has initiated a request for review under that mechanism on a different matter: [...]
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Clashes between Israel and Palestine escalate as Palestinian militants in Gaza fire rockets into Israel cities and Israel ramps up airstrikes in Gaza, with at least [...]
[We have the following call for papers. DRE]Third Legal Histories of Empire ConferenceBeyond the Pale: Legal Histories on the Edges of EmpiresMaynooth University, 29 June-1
July 2022Empires. Plural. Across time and across the globe, interconnected, mutually constitutive. [...]
Julie C. Suk (CUNY - The Graduate Center; Yale Law School; University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law) has posted The
Equal Rights Amendment, Then and Now (The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States (Deborah Brake, Martha Chamallas, & Verna Williams eds. [...]
