This article examines whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may take a more expansive approach to the extraterritorial reach of its jurisdiction in light of the recent decision by ...
On June 18, 2023, the Canadian government publicly accused the Indian government of killing Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and a prominent leader in the Khalistan movement that advocates for ...
In 2016, Congress enacted the Defend Trade Secrets Act as an amendment to the Economic Espionage Act, providing a federal cause of action for the misappropriation of trade secrets. While the DTSA ...
Human Rights militant before the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Image via DPLF. All rights reserved. When a State enables the creation of companies under its ...
JURIST Guest Columnist Kenneth S. Gallant of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law says that careful delineation of the application of extraterritorial law is the ...
The sentencing of a Zetas cartel assassin in Texas is the latest example of US prosecutors applying extraterritorial jurisdiction to foreign nationals for crimes they committed abroad, and which on ...
Siena Anstis is a senior legal advisor at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. The Canadian government should be credited for not shying away ...
Fraud has a tendency to ooze across borders, and fraudsters often locate in the jurisdiction of greatest laxity. This sets up an inevitable tension between prosecutorial zeal and legal doctrine. As ...
The State Department is barring five “egregious” European figures in the “global censorship-industrial complex” from entering the US, it revealed Tuesday. State Department officials contended that ...
On January 9, 2021, the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) released the Measures for Blocking Improper Extraterritorial Application of Foreign Laws and Measures (“Measures”), with immediate effect. The ...
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is billed as the most important development in data privacy regulation in at least 20 years, arrived with a bang in May of this year and ...