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A Convenient Path For The Brazilian Branches Of Government: Executive Supremacy, Carlos Bolonha

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Extraterritoriality, Universal Jurisdiction, And The Challenge Of Kiobel V.Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Vivian Grosswald Curran

Maryland Journal of International Law

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Frozen Embryo Disposition In Cases Of Separation And Divorce: How Nahmani V. Nahmani And Davis V. Davis Form The Foundation For A Workable Expansion Of Current International Family Planning, Ceala E. Breen-Portnoy

Maryland Journal of International Law

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Opting Out Of The Procedural Morass: A Solution To The Class Arbitration Problem, Emanwel Josef Turnbull

Student Articles and Papers

American class actions are internationally regarded as a procedural form to avoid and widely criticized in the United States. They have been narrowed and restricted by U.S. statutes and case law. Plaintiffs' lawyers in consumer class actions are portrayed as greedy and fraudulent, while businesses are increasingly acting to avoid class actions through mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clauses. Even class arbitration is criticized as leading to a “procedural morass.”

This Article proposes that parties and arbitral fora opt out of the American procedural morass (and the attendant long-running disputes about American class actions) by adopting an English procedural rule for aggregation. …

Pitfalls In Brazilian Bankruptcy Law For International Bond Investors, Jeffrey M. Anapolsky, Jessica F. Woods

Journal of Business & Technology Law

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