In the words of one international lawyer: going to court is always cheaper than going to war.
He has hired a prominent international lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, to plead his case.
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Like other left-leaning Latin American leaders such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's Evo Morales and Cuba's Fidel Castro, Ecuador President Rafael Correa has railed against the United States as an "imperial power that has to be checked, " said Robert Amsterdam, a Canadian international lawyer who's worked on high-profile cases involving Latin America, Russia and Thailand.
Particularly when such actions are taken together, they will have the effect of institutionalizing the core notion behind Mr. Obama's brand of what his top international lawyer (and prospective future Supreme Court nominee), State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, calls "transnationalism": A new world order in which the United States is simply one nation among many, subject to a higher - if utterly unaccountable - authority.
He worked as an international trade lawyer in Washington before joining the Foreign Service, the career diplomatic corps, in 1991, according to the State Department biography.
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"For someone wealthy enough that expatriation tax is an issue, it's worth paying someone to avoid it, " says Richard LeVine, an international tax lawyer with Withers Bergman in New Haven, Conn.
But more and more Chinese firms are trying to build their WTO or foreign trade practices, said Judy Wang, an international trade lawyer at Troutman Sanders and a former member of the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center's training program.
Gonzales and five others of being the legal architects of system that allowed torture in violation of international law, human rights lawyer Gonzalo Boye told CNN.
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The case relates to a visit last year from a lawyer from the International Criminal Court (ICC) who was accused of passing information to Mr Gaddafi.
Hundreds of pro-Qaddafi prisoners (some say more) are still in the hands of militias, who have also recently arrested an Australian lawyer from the International Criminal Court at The Hague after she had come to visit Saif Qaddafi, the colonel's son, who is held in Zintan.
He was the focus of a British lawyer's 2009 international campaign to seek his release and a similar 2012 push from several Bollywood actors.
The joint study, conducted by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, and the Project for Attorney Retention, surveyed 700 female lawyer at regional and international law firms.
"This morning's ruling in the al-Senussi case shows that the ICC has finally run out of patience with Libya's chaotic and disingenuous attempts to avoid complying with its international legal obligations, " said lawyer Ben Emmerson in a statement.
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Mr Zoellick, a Harvard-trained lawyer, was a senior international adviser to Goldman Sachs in the 1990s.
Harris is a lawyer and Director of the International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc.
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These days, many well established Chinese law firms in the major cities have an international department that includes a foreign-credentialed lawyer.
Karen is president of the Orange County Federalist Society lawyer chapter and sits on the Federalist Society International Law Executive Committee.
Raja Shehadeh, a lawyer and writer living in Ramallah, used international and Israeli law to fight Israel's seizure of land belonging to Palestinians.
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White House legislative liaison Mara Rudman, accompanied by at least one White House lawyer, delivered the documents to the House International Relations Committee Friday morning.
As if that were not enough, the prosecutor general's office also said it had issued an international warrant for the arrest of Nikolai Gololobov, a lawyer representing Yukos.
His co-accused, ICC lawyer Melinda Taylor and another colleague from the International Criminal Court in The Hague, were absent from the courtroom during Thursday's appearance in court in the western town of Zintan.
Jay Mayesh, a product liability defense lawyer at Kaye Scholer who represented Pfizer and Baxter International (nyse: BAX - news - people ) in drug and device litigation, at first said that it was difficult to say how bad the case would be for Merck.
He said Amadou was concerned that the International Criminal Court would object to Gadhafi's travel, but the lawyer pointed out that the court currently has no charges outstanding against Saadi Gadhafi.
There, until January, international bank regulation was handled by two finance-ministry officials, neither of them a lawyer or a banker.
American lawyer Heather Reilly Powell had just checked in for her flight at Tokyo Narita International Airport when the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck.
It says the News of the World and News International "corporately" misled the committee, as well as accusing in-house lawyer Tom Crone, former NoW editor Colin Myler and former executive chairman Les Hinton of misleading them on particular issues.
The State Department's top lawyer, Harold Koh, is a strong proponent of following the "norms" of international law.
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Ranina, a Mumbai-based corporate tax lawyer, said Mr. Mistry's key target would be to turn around Tata Group's international steel business and consolidate all the other businesses.
Pratibha Singh, a lawyer for the Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla, said the ruling had set a precedent that would prevent international pharmaceutical companies from obtaining fresh patents in India on updated versions of existing drugs.
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