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Foreign & Comparative Law Committee

Overview

This Committee addresses comparative, foreign, and transnational legal issues. The Committee's focus includes both substantive and procedural legal concepts.
Chairs
- James G. Hunt
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Reports
- 2017 Policy Recommendations for the Trump Administration (April 28, 2017) PDF
  
  Author(s): Animal Law Committee Asian Affairs Committee Construction Law Committee Corrections & Community Reentry Committee Energy Committee Environmental Law Committee Foreign & Comparative Law Committee Health Law Committee Information Technology & Cyber Law Committee International Environmental Law Committee International Human Rights Committee Legal Issues of Climate Adaptation, Task Force on Mass Incarceration, Task Force on Mental Health Law Committee Middle Eastern & North African Affairs Committee Military Affairs & Justice Committee National Security & the Rule of Law, Task Force on Project Finance Committee Sex & Law Committee Transportation Committee U.S. Presidential Transition Drugs & the Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Trump-Pence Presidential Transition Transition Memo
- Recommendations to the Trump Administration Regarding the Consideration of Foreign Law by Courts in the United States (January 23, 2017) PDF
  
  Author(s): Foreign & Comparative Law Committee U.S. Presidential Transition
  
  Subject Area(s): Transition Memo Trump-Pence Presidential Transition
- Governing Law in Sovereign Debt: Lessons from the Greek Crisis and Argentina Dispute of 2012 (February 2013) (March 01, 2013) PDF
  
  Author(s): Foreign & Comparative Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Sovereign Debt
- Amicus Brief: Awad v. Ziriax (US Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, May 2011) (May 01, 2011) PDF
  
  Author(s): Foreign & Comparative Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Foreign or Sharia Law
- The Unconstitutionality of Oklahoma Referendum 755 - the "Save Our State Amendment" (December 2010) (December 01, 2010) PDF
  
  Author(s): Foreign & Comparative Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Foreign or Sharia Law
- The Vienna Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (March 01, 2003) PDF
  
  Author(s): Foreign & Comparative Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): International Trade
News
- Policy Recommendations for the Trump Administration (April 28, 2017)
- The City Bar’s International Reach - by John S. Kiernan (April 17, 2017)
- The City Bar’s Response to the New Administration (February 15, 2017)
- An Evening with Three Heroic Women: Leymah Gbowee , Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman (September 15, 2016)
- The World of the City Bar - Debra L. Raskin (January 12, 2015)
- Event: The Future of Migration into Europe (October 22, 2014)
- New York City Bar Association Files Amicus Brief in Oklahoma ‘Save Our State’ Amendment/Sharia Law Case (June 03, 2011)
- New York City Bar Association Files Amicus Brief in Oklahoma ‘Save Our State’ Amendment / Sharia Law Case (June 02, 2011)
- New York City Bar Association Criticizes Oklahoma Referendum Banning International or “Sharia” Law as Unconstitutional (December 23, 2010)
- City Bar Criticizes Oklahoma Referendum Banning International or “Sharia” Law as Unconstitutional (December 22, 2010)
- FATWAS — FROM SALMAN RUSHDIE TO DOW JONES (December 10, 2007)

Foreign & Comparative Law Committee

This Committee addresses comparative, foreign, and transnational legal issues. The Committee's focus includes both substantive and procedural legal concepts.

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Foreign & Comparative Law Committee

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