Volume 58
Kimberly Holst, Rosa Kim, and Jason Palmer
This publication, International Legal Developments – Year in Review: 2023, presents a survey of important legal and political developments in international law that occurred during 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 4 min read
Jacob Mantle, Chelsea Rubin, Peter Jarosz, Tayler Farrell, Yazhi Zheng, Brigid Martin, and Philip Kariam
This article surveys significant legal developments in Canada in 2023. All information in this article is current to November 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 20 min read
Susan Burns, Monica Sanchez, Nicole Cook, Austin Pierce, Cristina Busquets, and Ignacio Gillmore
This article reviews 2023 developments in hemp, agriculture, and food, and provides updates in each of these sectors internationally.
Jul 31, 2024 23 min read
Mariana Ayrolla Navega De Alcantara, Francisco Ugarte, Alejandra Daroch Mercado, Maria Alicia Corbo Serani, Jose Francisco Mafla, Diego Ramirez, and James E. Keeble
This article surveys significant legal developments in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023—particularly in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Jul 31, 2024 16 min read
Sergio Treviño, Austin Pierce, Lucas Coury-Ortiz, Michael Morales, Molly Rochford, Jessica Lutkenhaus, Karen Luna Lozado, Juan Pablo Salomon Llinas, Patricia Santos Mtanous, EDGAR KLEE MUDESPACHER, Renata Sanchez Musi, Paloma Aramburo, Paola Dominguez, Kelsey Quigley, Sarah E Maciel, Nicole Castillo, Eduardo Grajales González, and Eduardo D. González
This article surveys significant legal developments in Mexico in 2023, including notable Supreme Court decisions.
Jul 31, 2024 19 min read
Jiangxiao Hou, JU-YA LU, Izzy Zhuoming Yang, Steven Yu, and Yanling Zheng
This Article discusses significant legal developments in Central/East Asia and Chinese Law from 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 19 min read
Anders Forkman, Martin Emile Aquilina, Luigi M Pavanello, and Ronald Arthur Lehmann
This Article reviews significant international legal developments made in the areas of international contracts law and policy in 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 20 min read
Ricardo A Silva, Sara Frazao, Madalena Osorio, Judy Boyd, Thomas Andrew O'Keefe, Candace Chandra, and Danielle Edwards
This Article discusses significant legal developments in the areas of international energy and environmental law from 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 7 min read
Gacia Kazandjian, Geoffrey Burrows, Masanori Bito, Junya Horiki, Anton Dzhuplin, Kristina Akalovich, Fedor Trofimov, Kelly Ian I Lei, Felipe Cavero, Clara Alvarez, Priscilla Tshibemba Petit, Lauren. E. Wyszomierski, and Geoffrey Goodale
This article summarizes important developments during 2023 in international mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and joint ventures in France, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Britain, and the United State…
Jul 31, 2024 22 min read
James Robert Border, Andrew M Danas, Attilio M Costabel, and Nicholas Webb
This article reviews some of the most significant developments in 2023 involving issues of international transportation law.
Jul 31, 2024 20 min read
Ruan Botha, Ingrid Gmeiner, Leopoldt Jansen Van Vuuren, Fariha Momin, Olivia Radics, and Ramona Tudorancea
This Article reviews significant international legal developments in the areas of International Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law and policy in 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 18 min read
Christie Galinski, Jeffrey L Golds, Paolo Panico, Heath Martin, PAUL MILLEN, Niklas Schmidt, Marcio Sperling, and Yanping Wang
This article highlights significant legal developments in International Tax Law in 2023 in Austria, Brazil, China, the EU, UK, and U.S.
Jul 31, 2024 23 min read
Rafael Bispo De Filippis, Victor Gielen, K. Jakub Gladkowski, Anna Hollywood, Amanda Jane Iris Hunter, Malgorzata Kieltyka, Cara Pronk, Deirdre Lynch, Nadia Moynihan, Manishi Pathak, André Seto Takeguma Utikawa, and Falon Wrigley
This article discusses significant legal developments in International Employment Law in 2023, including non-compete and restrictive convenant developments.
Jul 31, 2024 31 min read
Anne-Sophie NARDON, Betina Schlossberg, Michael McCullough, and Kevin Ray
This article surveys 2023 developments in International Art & Cultural Heritage cases in the United States.
Jul 31, 2024 18 min read
Carla Gharibian, Tom Pearson, Timur Bondaryev, Volodymyr Nakonechnyi, Anastasiia Kotliarchuk, Daria Paliienko, Robert J Deane, Les Honywill, Jeffrey A Rosenthal, Katie Gonzalez, Katerina Wright, Regina Paparo, Caoimhe Clarkin, Marcus Walsh, Gavin Woods, Bella Chan, Keara A Bergin, Christopher Pattison DeNicola, Hector Demian Scaianschi, Peter Ashford, Christina Nitsche, Amelie-Lou Blouin, Antonio Canales, Mercedes Fernandez, Gustavo A. Galindo, James Andrew Egerton-Vernon, Melissa Stear Gorsline, Haifeng Huang, Elie Kleiman, Viktoriia Korynevych, Annie Leeks, Anatoly Matveev, Michael Neumeier, Fernando Pastore, Claire Pauly, Maria Pradilla Picas, Valentin Rougier, Zara Eleanor Sadler Shafruddin, Jose Antonio Vazquez Cobo, Jessica Zhang, Bernardo Pires, Lars Markert, Anthony Lynch, Janine Häsler, Andreas Wehowsky, Preeti Ghansham Bhagnani, Eric Ives, and Clara Petch
This article discusses significant legal developments in International Arbitration Law from 2023, with updates from the U.S., ICSID, Europe, Pacific Rim, Middle East, Africa, and South America.
Jul 31, 2024 22 min read
This article discusses the significant legal developments involving International Courts and Judicial Affairs that occurred in 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 3 min read
Eric Sherby, Jonathan I Blackman, Carmine Daniel Boccuzzi Jr, Theodore Folkman, Phillip B Dye Jr, Jose F. Sanchez, Igor Victor Timofeyev, Joseph R Profaizer, Mark Edward McDonald, and Ari MacKinnon
This Article discusses significant legal developments in international litigation from 2023, including the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
Jul 31, 2024 22 min read
Catherine Amirfar, Christopher Bello, Floriane Marie Lavaud, Regina M. Paulose, Madeline Medeiros Pereira, Duncan Mayher Pickard, Michael William Pizzi, Omid Shams, CHRISTEL YUMUN THAM, and Federico Jose Wynter Litwin
This article reviews some of the most significant developments in 2023 involving issues of international criminal law.
Jul 31, 2024 22 min read
Roland M Potts and Jessie Chaisson
This article highlights significant legal developments in International Ethics Law in 2023, specifically the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Code of Conduct.
Jul 31, 2024 20 min read
Julie King, Sandhya Taneja, Abiola O Afolayan, Júlia Alcalá, Angela Gallerizzo, Rong Tao Kohtz, Kendra J. Muller, Linda Strite Murnane, Sierra Paola, Aina Serret Trancoso, Patricia Ann Teunisse, Catherine Elizabeth Van Kampen, and Elizabeth M Zechenter
This article reviews significant legal and political developments impacting women internationally in 2023.
Jul 19, 2023 22 min read
Agustín Artucio, Kelly Blount, Melike Alkaya Erdogan, George S Kounoupis, Omar Hajajra, Joy Momin, Laura Rathmann, Sanaz S., and Ian Teh
The American Bar Association’s Lawyers Abroad Committee selected its topic this year from the common concern of our members regarding developments globally with respect to the law, human rights, and…
Jul 31, 2024 20 min read
Uchechi Anyanwu, Yerro Bah, Elizabeth Barad, Anne Pauline Bodley, Mateo Fatsani Chitha, Michela Cocchi, Sara Frazao, Ganiyou Oladimedji Gassikia, Linda Gitonga, Tyler Holmes, Mowbray Jones-Nelson, Laverne Lewis Gaskins, Luis Miranda, Tupalishe Mulwafu, Flora Mweseli, Madalena Osório, Ricardo A Silva, Tania Tossa, Lori J Williams, and Eliya Zawanda
This Article discusses significant legal developments in African Law from 2023, including Western Sahara.
Jul 31, 2024 24 min read
Dara Brown, Haider Ali, Sebastiaan Bennink, and Luigi M Pavanello
This Article discusses significant legal developments in European Law from 2023, including the new Foreign Subsidies Regulation.
Jul 31, 2024 23 min read
Kelly Blount, Horace Vincent Draa III, Navandeep Matta, Avichal Prasad, Howard L Stovall, Michael H Traison, and Mohammed Wattad
This article surveys significant legal developments in the Middle East in 2023 and includes updates on Israel and United Arab Emirates.
Jul 31, 2024 3 min read
Jennifer Lynn Rodriguez, Priscilla Tshibemba-Petit, and Ville Latola
This article highlights significant legal developments relevant to International Finance & Securities that took place in 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 9 min read
Sunita Doobay, Elisabeth Dworschak, Gabriella Banhara, Michaela Engel, Gabriela Haro Hermoza, Omar Massimo Hegazi, Silvia Lazzeretti, Stanley C Ruchelman, and Daniela Shani
This article examines selected legal developments relevant to legal advisors practicing in the field of private client law in 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 19 min read
Kate McNeece, Miguel del Pino, Brenda Madonna Ackermann, Sofia Blanco Ziegler, Milena Fernandes Mundim, Adam S. Goodman, Simon Kupi, Yizhe Zhang, Peter J Wang, Laurie-Anne Grelier, Naval Satarawala Chopra, Aman Singh Sethi, Shigeyoshi Ezaki, Vassili Moussis, Kiyoko Yagami, Ran An, Youngjin Jung, Jiyeon Song, Maria Hajiyerou, Eun Sun Jang, Lara Granville, Neil Cuninghame, Fiona Garside, Lisl J Dunlop, and Geunyoung Kim
This Article outlines the most significant development in international antitrust in 2023 in eleven jurisdictions.
Jul 31, 2024 20 min read
Michael S Coffee and Melissa Ann Kucinski
This Article discusses significant legal developments in family law from 2023, including marriage validity, marital agreements, and dissolution of marriage.
Jul 31, 2024 22 min read
Constance Z Wagner, Daniel L Appelman, Austin Pierce, Alexander Ehrle, Linda Strite Murnane, Carlos De Miguel Perales, Delissa A Ridgway, Wendy M Taube, and Elizabeth M Zechenter
This article highlights developments in 2023 that the International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has focused on in its programming and advocacy work.
Jul 31, 2024 26 min read
Brandon French, Jennifer Elisabeth Vann Horvath, Jessica B Horwitz, Ngosong Fonkem, Geoffrey M Goodale, Christopher H Skinner, George R Tuttle III, Kathleen Wang, and Lauren Wyszomierski
This article summarizes the most important developments to U.S. customs law in 2023. 2023 was a dynamic year for United States customs law.
Jul 31, 2024 24 min read
Dharmendra Narain Choudhary, Jordan C. Kahn, Theodore Paul Brackemyre, Paul Devamithran, Patrick Griffo, Elizabeth Lee, Kimberly Reynolds, and Andrew T. Schutz
This article describes significant rulings issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) and the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), U.S.
Jul 31, 2024 21 min read
John W Boscariol, Anthony Busch, Sylvia Costelloe, Geoffrey M Goodale, Grant D. Leach, Manuel Levitt, Oksana Migitko, Emily Mikes, Timothy P O'Toole, Trevor Schmitt, Mollie D. Sitkowski, Lawrence Anthony Ward III, and Lauren Wyszomierski
This article discusses the significant legal developments involving export controls and economic sanctions that occurred in 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 20 min read
Daina Bray, Paula Cardoso Margarido, Yolanda Eisenstein, Hira Jaleel, Meghan Jones, Altamush Saeed, and Joan E Schaffner
This Article reviews significant international legal developments made in the area of animal law and policy in 2023.
Jul 31, 2024 22 min read
Barbara D Linney, Scott Charles Jansen, Orga Cadet, Raul Rangel Miguel, Geoffrey M Goodale, Lauren Wyszomierski, Jonathan Michael Meyer, Adam Ross Pearlman, Guy C Quinlan, and Joy Momin
The year 2023 introduced a new wave of national security-based restrictions on foreign investment in U.S. real estate.
Jul 31, 2024 18 min read