By: Christopher L. Rathlev George C. Freeman, III presented a business overview of Universal Corporation at the University of Richmond on September 5, 2007. Prior to joining Universal Leaf Tobacco Company in 1997, Mr. Freeman served as a law clerk for the Honorable Richard S. Arnold, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for … [Read more…]
Undocumented Workers in the United States: Legal, Political, and Social Effects
By: Rachel Feltman Immigration law is a hotly contested topic these days. Not only does it have important implications in numerous legal fields, including labor law and tort law, but it also has social, political, and economic effects that ripple throughout our society. Immigrants, especially those who remain undocumented, have the potential to affect … [Read more…]
The New Chinese Dynasty: How the United States and International Intellectual Property Laws are Failing to Protect Consumers and Investors from Counterfeiting
By: Anna-Liisa Jacobson As businesses expanded with the rise of globalization, so did the effects of anticompetitive activity and, in turn, the reach of the U.S. antitrust laws. Though Congress addressed the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the U.S. antitrust laws with its implementation of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act (“FTAIA”), the statute only created … [Read more…]
Reconsidering the D.C. Circuit’s Proximate Cause Standard for Extraterrotorial Jurisdiction: Precluding the “Globalization” Theory to Promote Global Enforcement
By: Michelle A. Wyant As businesses expanded with the rise of globalization, so did the effects of anticompetitive activity and, in turn, the reach of the U.S. antitrust laws. Though Congress addressed the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the U.S. antitrust laws with its implementation of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act (“FTAIA”), the statute only … [Read more…]
Can Successful Lawyers Think in Different Languages?: Incorporating Critical Strategies that Support Learning Lawyering Skills for the Practice of Law in a Global Environment
By: Katerina P. Lewinbuk In response to the globalization of the practice of law, law schools in the United States and other countries that have traditionally been defined as belonging to the common law legal system have opened their doors to international students from different legal systems for whom English is a second language … [Read more…]