Michael D Goldhaber

March 18, 2013 | National Law Journal

In his heart of hearts, Hugo Chávez was a ­student of expropriation law. (Indeed, one might say that he was its leading practitioner.)

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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January 30, 2012 | National Law Journal

On Jan. 26, nearly a year after Chevron Corp. asked a New York federal court to block enforcement of a multibillion-dollar judgment in Ecuador over oil contamination in the Amazon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit said no in the most sweeping possible terms. Where does Chevron go from here?

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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February 27, 2012 | National Law Journal

On Feb. 16, Chevron Corp. won an arbitral award neutralizing the $18 billion Ecuadorian judgment now on appeal in that country — only to have an Ecuadorian court defy the arbitrators the next day.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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July 22, 2013 | National Law Journal

A federal judge's decision to vacate the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Dodd-Frank Section 1504 rule, which would force U.S.-listed petroleum and mining companies to disclose payments to all governments around the world, is wrong on the law and wrong on policy.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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July 23, 2012 | National Law Journal

The ING settlement punctuates a dramatic shift in the power of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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August 13, 2012 | The American Lawyer

With help from pro bono counsel at Morrison & Foerster, a judge in Chile won an Inter-American Court ruling that's bound to reverberate around the world through judicial dialogue.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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October 01, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Did Chevron drop its jury demand because it lost a mock trial? That's The Global Lawyer's guess. But while Chevron may be scared of a jury, the Ecuadorians are afraid of justice.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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August 05, 2013 | National Law Journal

The London nonprofit A4ID has published its primer on how to handle your evil clients, "The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A guide for the legal profession." But it doesn't pretend to have all the answers.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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June 17, 2013 | National Law Journal

The greatest weakness of the treaty system is the appearance of bias. The critiques of arbitrator independence have gone unheeded, and they are only growing louder.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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April 29, 2013 | National Law Journal

Rather than kill the corporate alien tort outright, the court maimed all forms of alien tort by restricting their territorial reach.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

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