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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
- Richard H. Langan II
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Reports
- Sham Russian Referenda and Illegal Annexation of Ukrainian Sovereign Territory (October 14, 2022) PDF
  
  Author(s): Council on International Affairs United Nations Committee Foreign & Comparative Law Committee Task Force on the Rule of Law
  
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- Statement on Ukraine Conflict In Light of Mounting Evidence of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity (May 05, 2022) PDF
  
  Author(s): Council on International Affairs Foreign & Comparative Law Committee United Nations Committee
  
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- 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 Technology, Cyber and Privacy Law Committee International Environmental Law Committee International Human Rights Committee Task Force on Legal Issues of Climate Adaptation Task Force on Mass Incarceration Mental Health Law Committee Middle Eastern & North African Affairs Committee Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Task Force on National Security & the Rule of Law Project Finance Committee Sex & Law Committee Transportation Committee U.S. Presidential Transition Drugs & the Law Committee
  
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- 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
  
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- 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
  
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- Amicus Brief: Awad v. Ziriax (US Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, May 2011) (May 01, 2011) PDF
  
  Author(s): Foreign & Comparative Law Committee
  
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- The Unconstitutionality of Oklahoma Referendum 755 - the "Save Our State Amendment" (December 2010) (December 01, 2010) PDF
  
  Author(s): Foreign & Comparative Law Committee
  
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- The Vienna Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (March 01, 2003) PDF
  
  Author(s): Foreign & Comparative Law Committee
  
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News & Media
- Current Issues for Women's Rights in the Middle East and North African Region (May 03, 2023)
- Fourth Annual International Law Conference on the Status of Women (March 29, 2023)
- The Need for a Special Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression in Ukraine (Video) (February 08, 2023)
- On Lawyer Silence and Authoritarianism - by Susan J. Kohlmann, President (December 12, 2022)
- Lawyer Silence and the Rise of Authoritarianism (Video) (December 06, 2022)
- Sham Russian Referenda and Illegal Annexation of Ukrainian Sovereign Territory (October 14, 2022)
- Third Annual International Law Conference on the Status of Women (March 08, 2022)
- International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Critical and Compelling Lessons Applicable to Civil Society and the Legal Community Today (February 03, 2022)
- Primer on Cross-Border Prosecutions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico for U.S. Criminal Lawyers (September 07, 2021)
- New York City Bar Association Launches Business and Human Rights Working Group (January 17, 2020)
- 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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