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4 Int'l L. Update 1 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/intlwup4 and id is 1 raw text is: A monthly report on international legal developments affecting the United States international LaW uydate Editors: Professor John R. Schmertz, Jr., Georgetown University Law Center, and Mike Meier, Esq. Vol. 4 About International Law Update International Law Update is a monthly publication designed to assist US. practitioners and scholars of public and private international law to stay current in these fields. To this goal, International Law Update reports, for example, on recent international opinions of the Federal Courts, on applications of the Hague Evidence and Service Conventions, on major intergovernmental commercial agreements, on cases dealing with sovereign immunity and enforcement ofjudgments, and on significant changes in public and private international law affecting American interests at home and abroad. About the Authors Professor John R. Schmertz, Jr. is professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D. C. Currently he teaches International Law, International Civil Litigation, International Criminal Law, European Union Law and Conflicts. For twenty years, he has authored the Federal Rules of Evidence News, a nationally circulated newsletter. Mike Meier received his masters degree in political science from the University of Berlin, Germany, pursued studies in international law at Yale Law School, and received his JD. and LL.M from Georgetown University Law Center. He has worked for the Argentine Government, the European Parliament, and the German Chamber of Commerce in Japan. January 1998 January Highlights aw In action by victims of human rights violations to levy on assets of former Philippine dictator, Ninth Circuit determines whether requested interference with Swiss freeze of Marcos assets would violate Act of State Doctrine (Page 2) o Second Circuit decides whether to enforce contract clause requiring arbitration in Italy where plaintiff had alleged that, defendants had fraudulently induced plaintiff to enter into the distribution contract (Page 2) In litigation over Saskatchewan car accident, British Columbia Court of Appeal resolves whether retrospectively to apply recent Canadian Supreme Court ruling that courts should no longer treat statutes of limitations as procedural for choice-of-law purposes (Page 3) ow ICSID panel hands down ruling on claim by U.S. corporation that soldiers of Zaire had looted and destroyed one of its local manufacturing complexes (Page 7) aw Where, in complex tobacco litigation, plaintiffs and Minnesota Court tried mightily to develop requests for oral testimony abroad that complied with English law, English Court of Appeal decides whether they passed muster (Page 7)

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