The first people charged with crimes in the United States arising from the Panama Papers investigation will face trial in January 2020, according to new court filings. Read

all about it on ICIJ Panama Papers Leaks website here [...]

A Toledo man was indicted on charges that he attempted to for attempting to launder more than $138,000 in drug profits at the Hollywood Casino. Todd A. Brown, 40, was indicted

on 15 counts of concealment money laundering. According to... [...]

he Internal Revenue Service has begun sending letters to taxpayers with virtual currency transactions that potentially failed to report income and pay the resulting tax from

virtual currency transactions or did not report their transactions properly. "Taxpayers should take these... [...]

What is the scope of party modifications to the DSU for particular cases, and could it help with the Appellate Body appointment crisis? It may not be an ideal solution, but

take a look at the following example and see if it could be applied to the Appellate Body crisis. [...]

This is from Ambassador Lighthizer's responses to the questions for the record from a June 19 House Ways and Means Committee hearing: From Representative Bill Pascrell to Ambassador

Robert E. Lighthizer [...]

A Ninth Circuit panel handed down the Amazon[1] decision on Friday (August 16) in favor of Amazon. On June 7, a different Ninth Circuit panel handed down Altera[2] in favor

of the IRS. Let's take ‘it must be the politics... [...]

Britain’s legal sector set for significant slowdown in event of no-deal Brexit Britain – Europe’s biggest international provider of legal services and number two in the

world – could take a £3.5bn hit from a no deal Brexit, solicitors' leaders... [...]

From the advertisement, hat tip to Debra Steger:  "The Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a tenure-track position

as an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in International Economic Law commencing July 1, 2020. APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 30, 2019. [...]

The FCA is today publishing Final Guidance which sets out the cryptoasset activities it regulates. This is in response to the FCA’s consultation published earlier this year.

The Guidance will help firms understand whether their cryptoasset activities fall under FCA... [...]

Two researchers from the Kiel Center for Globalization (Haiou Mao and Holger Görg) have just published a working paper entitled “Friends like This: The Impact of the US

– China Trade War on Global Value Chains.”  Based on the notion of “cumulative and indirect tariffs” in global value chains (GVCs), the paper demonstrates [...]