Dear Hague Evidence Convention: This letter pains me. In the past several weeks I’ve written several posts extolling the virtues of your convention siblings governing serving process abroad and legalizing documents for use overseas-- the Hague Service Convention and the Hague Legalization Convention. These two conventions have worked very well to simplify and streamline … [Read more...]
Chevron Files International Arbitration Claim Against Ecuador: Forum Shopping in the Hague?
**Update January 15, 2010**: The Republic of Ecuador and the class Plaintiffs have both challenged Chevron's arbitration claim in New York federal court. You can read about it here and here. First, the United States. Then Ecuador. Now Holland. Chevron's wanderlust knows no bounds, as it recently filed a parallel international arbitration proceeding in the Hague (Holland). The … [Read more...]