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A New Era In The Application Of U.S. Securities Law Abroad: Valuing The Presumption Against Extraterritoriality And Managing The Future With The Sustainable- Domestic-Integrity Standard, Alina Veneziano Dec 2019

A New Era In The Application Of U.S. Securities Law Abroad: Valuing The Presumption Against Extraterritoriality And Managing The Future With The Sustainable- Domestic-Integrity Standard, Alina Veneziano

Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law

The U.S. Supreme Court in Morrison held that Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act did not apply extraterritorially, lacking a clear indication by Congress of the intent to do so. In reaching this conclusion, it clarified that the reach of Section 10(b) is a merits question, not a question of subject matter jurisdiction and stated that the focus of the statute was upon purchases and sales of securities in the United States while articulating a bright-line transactional test to determine whether extraterritorial application was appropriate. The transactional test completely rejected the conduct/effects tests, which had been used by courts for …


Extraterritorial Application Of The Antitrust Laws And Retaliatory Legislation By Foreign Countries, Donald J. Curotto Sep 2010

Extraterritorial Application Of The Antitrust Laws And Retaliatory Legislation By Foreign Countries, Donald J. Curotto

Golden Gate University Law Review

This Comment will review the United States approach to subject matter jurisdiction determinations in foreign antitrust suits, articulate the provisions of the retaliatory legislation, and finally, evaluate the impact of such legislation on United States antitrust enforcement.


What's New In The Neighborhood - The Export Of The Dmca In Post-Trips Ftas, Anne Hiaring Aug 2010

What's New In The Neighborhood - The Export Of The Dmca In Post-Trips Ftas, Anne Hiaring

Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law

This paper will first discuss the historical use of trade regulation to regulate intellectual property law protection outside the U.S., then will discuss the history of the WIPO Internet Treaties, the implementation of them in the DMCA, the provisions of the Induce Act, and the DMCA derived provisions in the 2003 FTA with Singapore.


Economic Justification For Sui Generis Databases, Chana Rungrojtanakul Aug 2010

Economic Justification For Sui Generis Databases, Chana Rungrojtanakul

Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law

This article explores important economic mechanisms and competition law that have been used to promote the competitiveness of the database industries. Section II explains fundamental economic theories that lead to an understanding of the concept of an efficient and perfect competition within the database industries. Section III analyzes judicial decisions of the two economic parties, the European Union and the United States of America, that apply competition law to create a fair reproduction and dissemination of factual contents and to prevent unfair competition derived from an attempt to dominate the free flow of contents in the market. Section IV examines …