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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced awards to four individuals for total payments of almost $5 million. Each of these whistleblowers provided critical information that alerted the Commission of the alleged wrongdoing and resulted… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-240

CarrieLyn D. Guymon (Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State) has published Digest of United States Practice in International Law, 2019.Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/RfRRI/~3/qIIlPtRg3ak/guymon-digest-of-united-states-practice.html

David Armitage (Harvard Univ. – History) & Ignacio de la Rasilla (Wuhan Univ. – Institute of International Law) have posted ‘The Most Neglected Province’: British Historiography of International Law (in The Cambridge History of International Law: I, Introduction, Randall Lesaffer & Anne Peters eds., forthcoming). Here’s the abstract: Every periodisation of the history of international…

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of almost $30 million to two insider whistleblowers whose tips led SEC staff to open an investigation.  The first whistleblower, who was the first to alert SEC staff of potential… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-239

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 73, 2020) is out. Contents include: The blurring distinction between public and private in international dispute resolution Introduced by Ramses A. Wessel Eva Kassoti & Jed Odermatt, The principle of autonomy and international investment arbitration: Reflections on Opinion 1/17 Luca Pantaleo,…

Doctors like to have answers: it makes us feel useful. GPs take pride in our tolerance of uncertainty, but even we are being pushed beyond our comfort zone by current circumstances, and many of us… Article source: http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/MH0inlF7ApY/bmj.m3724.short

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC for violations of Regulation SHO, the regulatory framework governing short sales. According to the SEC’s order, the structure of Morgan Stanley’s… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-238

This is a cutaneous phototoxic reaction in a man in his early 80s (fig 1).bmj;370/sep30_6/m3554/F1F1f1Fig 1He started taking pirfenidone for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Six weeks later, he… Article source: http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/si9Pk4yEE78/bmj.m3554.short

NHS leaders have called for an honest assessment of what the health service can deliver as it grapples with a “triple whammy” of rising covid-19 infections, a major backlog of treatment, and reduced… Article source: http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/W3m-Of8ttrk/bmj.m3798.short

The latest issue of the International Criminal Law Review (Vol. 20, no. 5, 2020) is out. Contents include: Special Issue: International Criminal Law (ICL), International Criminal Justice (ICJ), and Public International Law (PIL): The Demarcation Debate Anja Matwijkiw, Introduction. International Criminal Law (ICL), International Criminal Justice (ICJ), and Public International Law (PIL): The Demarcation Debate…