Volume 56
Jason Palmer and Kimberly Holst
International Legal Developments Year in Review: 2021, presents a survey of important legal and political developments in international law that occurred during 2021 amid a continuing global pandemic…
Aug 03, 2022 4 min read
Jacob Mantle, Danny Yeo, Peter Jarosz, Tayler Farrell, Gannon G Beaulne, Megan Steeves, Adam Mauntah, and Salma Kebeich
This article surveys significant legal developments in Canada in 2021, including a trade update and challenges with regard to COVID-19.
Aug 03, 2022 19 min read
Kelsey Quigley, Jose Luis Lizarraga, John F Walsh, Danielle Marie Morris, Maria Camila Hoyos, David Ross, Lauren Mandell, Noah Guiney, Carlo B Cannizzo, Enrique Garcia, and Victoria Vanessa Romero Rocha
The 2021 year was characterized by dramatic change in Mexico, as the country emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aug 03, 2022 17 min read
Yanling Zheng
This article discusses the key judicial and administrative policies related to trademark protection and the major development of trademark prosecution procedures in China throughout 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 7 min read
Namrata P. Rastogi, Aseem Chawla, Soniya Dodeja, Sanjay Notani, Naghm Ghet, Amit Gupta, Vidhi Goel, Hari Sankar Mahapatra, Katherine Maddox Davis, and Alisa Rukbankerd
This article surveys significant legal developments in South Asia and Oceania during the calendar year 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 17 min read
Deana Davis, Izak C Rosenfeld, Alison Strongwater, Martin Emile Aquilina, Vicky Li, and Willem den Hertog
The following article summarizes some of the significant international legal developments during 2021 in the areas of international and crossborder contracts and the interpretation and application of…
Aug 03, 2022 24 min read
Jonathan McGowan, Jose Sampaio, Mariana P Ardizzone, Ricardo A Silva, and Sara Frazao
This article reviews some of the most significant international legal developments made in the areas of international energy, natural resources, and environmental law in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 14 min read
Renata Antiquera, Jason Saltzman, Sydney Dennis-Birnbaum, Francisco Ugarte, Alejandra Daroch, Luigi M Pavanello, Pawel Sikora, Anton Dzhuplin, Kristina Akalovich, Natella Kortiashvili, Albert Garrofe, Idoya Fernandez, Lola Tejero, and Mark Howard
This article summarizes important developments during 2021 in international mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and joint ventures in Brazil,Canada, Chile, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, and the United Kin…
Aug 03, 2022 22 min read
James Henry Bergeron, Attilio M Costabel, Andrew M Danas, Gregory Carl Maddaleni, and Rebecca A Fenneman
This article updates selected international legal development in 2021 in international transportation law.
Aug 03, 2022 21 min read
Christie Galinski, Matias Claudio Luis Milet, Giovanna Bernal, Paul D Carman, Wiebe H De Vries, Sunita Doobay, Johan Myren, Michael Robinson, and Dave Sherwin
This article examines international tax developments relating to digital financial assets, cryptocurrency, reporting in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 22 min read
Birgit Kurtz, Maria Goretti Tai, and Lois Elizabeth Jane Wetzel
This article surveys significant legal developments in international art and cultural heritage law during 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 25 min read
Marcus Salvato Quintanilla, Carla Gharibian, Sergey Petrachkov, Dmitry Kuptsov, Saglar Ochirova, Oksana Karel, Daryna Hrebeniuk, Robert J Deane, Jeffrey A Rosenthal, Katie Gonzalez, Katerina Wright, Caoimhe Clarkin, Marcus Walsh, Bella Chan, Keara A Bergin, Christopher Pattison DeNicola, Peter Ashford, Kate Felmingham, Aline Dias, Antonio Canales, Gretel Cannon, Ashley Chandler, Marianne Chao, Mercedes Fernandez, Gustavo A. Galindo, Melissa Stear Gorsline, Benjamin Holloway, Haifeng Huang, Elie Kleiman, Viktoriia Korynevych, Annie Leeks, Fernando Pastore, Fernando Pastore, Iris Sauvagnac, Jiahui Sheng, Darya Vakulenko, Jose Antonio Vazquez Cobo, Sharon Yiu, Lars Markert, Christina Nitsche, Anthony Lynch, Hector Scianschi Marquez, Preeti Ghansham Bhagnani, Eric Lenier Ives, and Tom Pearson
This article surveys significant legal developments in international arbitration in 2021 in North America, among other countries.
Aug 03, 2022 22 min read
Manish Bhatt, Giovanni Chiarini, Katherine Maddox Davis, Susan Beth Farmer, Timothy Franklin, Cyreka C Jacobs, Stéphane de Navacelle, Sara Lauren Ochs, Alexander Vesselinovitch, Melissa Ginsberg, Marc Weitz, and Julie Zorrilla
This article reviews some of the most significant developments in 2021 made by international courts and tribunals, and domestic courts.
Aug 03, 2022 40 min read
Aaron Marr Page, Jonathan I Blackman, Carmine Daniel Boccuzzi Jr, Theodore Folkman, Phillip B Dye Jr, Matthew David Slater, Mark Edward McDonald, Ari MacKinnon, Igor Victor Timofeyev, and Joseph R Profaizer
This article reviews some of the most significant developments made in international litigation in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 22 min read
Julie King, Christine Korper, Abiola O Afolayan, Marie Elena Angulo, Michela Cocchi, Angela Gallerizzo, Dolly Hernandez, Margaret Kamm, Kendra J. Muller, Sierra Paola, Victoria Vanessa Romero Rocha, Aina Serret Trancoso, Sandhya Taneja, and Catherine Elizabeth Van Kampen
This article reviews significant legal and political developments impacting women internationally in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 16 min read
Anne Pauline Bodley, Zachary David Combs, Vanessa Suarez Galves, Charlotte Favaro, Sara Frazao, Laverne Lewis Gaskins, Tyler Holmes, Lincoln Majogo, Myrian Mossi, Julien Naginski, Galindo Aliyo Ruhiyyah, Ricardo A Silva, Tania Tossa, Carneil Wilson, Chitalu Yalobi, and Jose Diogo Sampaio
This article discusses the significant international legal developments that occurred in Africa in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 20 min read
Duncan Gorst, Luigi M Pavanello, Willem den Hertog, and Jonathan A. McGowan
This article reviews some of the most significant international legal developments made in Europe in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 11 min read
Kelly Blount, Harry William Baumgarten, Nicolas Bremer, Gaurav Redhal, Seyed Mohsen Rowhani, Howard L Stovall, and Catherine Elizabeth Van Kampen
This article surveys significant legal developments in the Middle East in 2021, including Egypt, and Iran, among others.
Aug 03, 2022 10 min read
Kimberly Reed, Timur Bondaryev, Denis Karimov, Anton Rekun, and Tetian Storozhuk
A major problem for foreign parties in Russian Federation (RF) courts is the inconsistency of Russian courts in recognizing and enforcing judgments from countries with whom the RF has no formal treat…
Aug 03, 2022 25 min read
Robert G Spector and Melissa Ann Kucinski
This article examines international developments in the area of family law in 2021, including Hague Conventions.
Aug 03, 2022 20 min read
Daniel L Appelman, John Regis Coogan, Cyreka C Jacobs, Cailen Labarge, Corinne Elizabeth Lewis, Kerry McLean, Hind Merabet, Linda Strite Murnane, Thomas Andrew O'Keefe, Sara P Sandford, James Taylor, Constance Z Wagner, and Wendy M Taube
This article highlights developments in 2021 that the International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has focused on in its programming and advocacy work.
Aug 03, 2022 23 min read
Adrienne Braumiller, David Glynn, Geoffrey M Goodale, Jennifer Elisabeth Vann Horvath, Harold Jackson, George R Tuttle III, and Dana Watts
This article reviews some of the most significant international legal developments made in the area of customs law in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 21 min read
John W Boscariol, J. Patrick Briscoe, Sylvia Costelloe, John Phillip Kabealo, Oksana Migitko, Mary Mikhaeel, Timothy P O'Toole, Mollie Sitkowski, Christopher Stagg, and Lawrence Anthony Ward III
This article discusses the significant legal developments involving export controls and economic sanctions in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 22 min read
Susan Schwartz, Tala Dibenedetto, Edie Bowles, Paula Cardoso Margarido, Daina Bray, Rajesh K Reddy, and Regina M. Paulose
In June 2021, an expert panel released a definition for ecocide, which they intend to be adopted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute egregious harms against the environment.
Aug 03, 2022 22 min read
Jordan C Kahn, Dharmendra Narain Choudhary, Joseph M. Spraragen, Geoffrey M Goodale, Ted Brackemyre, Paul A. Devmithran, Laura El-Sabaawi, Jake Frischknecht, Nicole C Hager, Elizabeth Lee, and Claire Webster
This article outlines the most important developments in international trade law during 2021 and summarizes U.S. trade cases at the International Trade Commission…
Aug 03, 2022 25 min read
Orga Cadet, Geoffrey M Goodale, Laurence Hull, Renee Latour, Barbara D Linney, Jonathan Michael Meyer, Guy C Quinlan, Minji "MJ" Shin, Christopher Vallandingham, and Bonnie H. Weinstein
This article highlights significant legal developments relevant to national security law that took place in 2021.
Aug 03, 2022 17 min read