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Note, Throwing A Monkey Wrench Into The Wheels Of International Finance: Wells Fargo Asia Ltd. V. Citibank, N.A., Edmund W. Sim Jan 1990

Note, Throwing A Monkey Wrench Into The Wheels Of International Finance: Wells Fargo Asia Ltd. V. Citibank, N.A., Edmund W. Sim

Michigan Journal of International Law

This note attempts to illustrate concisely the issues and potential ramifications of Wells Fargo. After describing the complex factual and procedural histories of the case, the note briefly surveys the various approaches to the Act of State doctrine and suggests that the Court should consider Act of State issues in Wells Fargo. Next, it examines the lower courts' analyses of the case and what effects their rulings would have if the Court were to adopt them. Due to the resulting legal confusion that the lower courts' decisions would wreak on the Eurodollar community, Wells Fargo should not remain …


Goldstein's Curse, James J. White Jan 1990

Goldstein's Curse, James J. White

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ON April 16, 1980, a man using the name Marvin Goldstein opened a bank account at a Baltimore branch of Union Trust Company. He deposited $15,000 in cash. He told the branch manager that he planned to establish a Baltimore office of his father's New York business, "Goldstein's Precious Metals and Stones." Goldstein identified himself with a New Jersey driver's license and gave a bank reference from New York. On May 6, Goldstein deposited a check for $880,000 at another Union Trust branch near the branch where he had opened the account. Words on this check indicated that it was …


International Trade And Investment Regulation: Developing Jurisprudence In Taiwan, Paul S.P. Hsu Jan 1990

International Trade And Investment Regulation: Developing Jurisprudence In Taiwan, Paul S.P. Hsu

Michigan Journal of International Law

Past and present economic development in the Republic of China has provided a model for a successful experiment whereby a society under a workable economic and social system with very limited natural resources makes the most of what it has. Yet, the momentum of the development will not permit the R.O.C. to rest at its present stage or to reminisce about past achievements. Clearly, many more stages of economic development lie ahead. Other industrially advanced nations that operate under similar limitations, such as the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland, have higher per capita income, better quality of life, and a more …


Europe: A Single Currency And A Single Central Bank?, Hugo J. Hahn Jan 1990

Europe: A Single Currency And A Single Central Bank?, Hugo J. Hahn

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article follows the address delivered by the author in French at the Founding Assembly of the European Society for Banking and Financial Law in Paris on Nov. 5, 1988.