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D.C. Circuit Addresses FSIA in Hungarian Art Case

Last month, the D.C. Circuit addressed several important questions under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) in its latest decision in De Csepel v. Republic of Hungary, a long-running suit to recover art expropriated during the Second World War. The court held that the defendant Hungarian National Asset Management Inc. (MNV) was subject to jurisdiction…

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Oral Argument in ZF Automotive Generates More Confusion Than Clarity on the Availability of U.S. Discovery for Use in International Arbitration

Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two consolidated cases asking whether U.S.-style discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 is available for use in, respectively, international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration. These questions stem from a statutory ambiguity that has caused widespread uncertainty in international arbitration, and it may not be resolvable based on statutory interpretation or congressional intent.

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Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk

Vanderbilt Law School
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William Dodge

George Washington University Law School
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Maggie Gardner

Cornell Law School
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John F. Coyle

University of North Carolina School of Law
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Hannah Buxbaum

UC Davis School of Law
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Alex Rivenbark

Law Clerk
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Junhao Chen

New York University
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Jackson Myers

MoloLamken LLP
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Yanbai Andrea Wang

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Natalie Reid

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
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Beatrice Walton

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
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Rinat Gareev

Whitecliff Management
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Harold Hongju Koh

Yale Law School
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