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Squeezing Silver: The Trial of Nelson Bunker Hunt
Famed Nelson Bunker Hunt, Mahmoud Fustok - brother in law to Crown Prince (later King) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - and with others manipulated silver prices from $9 to $51 in four months in 1979-80 while meeting at thoroughbred horse events, five-star hotels and posh restaurants. When prices crashed three months later, and the Hunt family defaulted on debts, their defaults threatened the US economy with collapse. Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, engineered a highly controversial bail out of Bunker Hunt to save the US economy. Squeezing Silver is a legal thriller that takes the reader inside the courtroom of one of the most important trials of recent decades, which chronicled the near collapse of the US economy.
The Case of the Welched Reward
Reward takes the reader behind the scenes of an international manhunt and an unusual lawsuit that rattled law enforcement in three countries. The story is born out of a real-life spy thriller--the flight of Peru's notorious National Security chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who was accused of many crimes. The lawsuit, Jose Guevara v. Republic of Peru, was brought by a Venezuelan spy who claimed Peru's $5 million reward after he was caught in an FBI sting attempting to extort a Miami banker to release Montesinos' dirty money. The next day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez triumphantly announced Montesinos' capture and extradition to Peru. What happened in Guevara's jail cell is an untold story th...
The Case of the Welched Reward
"Reward takes the reader behind the scenes of the lawsuit Jose Guevara v. Republic of Peru, a dispute about Peru's $5 million reward for the capture of its notorious National Security chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who was accused of many crimes including extra-judicial killings, extortion and stealing a billion dollars in government money. But what is a case between a Venezuelan and a Peruvian doing in U.S. courts anyway? Isn't there something undemocratic about a U.S. judge deciding how money should be spent from a foreign treasury? The answers to those questions depend upon the law designed to protect U.S. foreign relations the sovereign immunity doctrine, which puts disputes with foreign governments in the hands of diplomats, not judges. Reward provides a guide to the art of persuasion as this tense story unfolds in one of the most difficult cases in Mr. Cymrot's career"--
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The Cambridge Handbook of Immunities and International Law
Few topics of international law speak to the imagination as much as international immunities. Questions pertaining to immunity from jurisdiction or execution under international law surface on a frequent basis before national courts, including at the highest levels of the judicial branch and before international courts or tribunals. Nevertheless, international immunity law is and remains a challenging field for practitioners and scholars alike. Challenges stem in part from the uncertainty pertaining to the customary content of some immunity regimes said to be in a 'state of flux', the divergent – and at times directly conflicting - approaches to immunity in different national and international jurisdictions, or the increasing intolerance towards impunity that has accompanied the advance of international criminal law and human rights law. Composed of thirty-four expertly written contributions, the present volume uniquely provides a comprehensive tour d'horizon of international immunity law, traversing a wealth of national and international practice.
AAA Handbook on Arbitration Practice
The AAA Handbook on Arbitration Practice assembles from Dispute Resolution Journal - the flagship publication of the American Arbitration Association - and other sources the latest thinking on arbitration and dispute resolution. All chapters, where necessary, have been revised and updated by the authors to insure that they represent the most current developments in law and practice. The Handbook is a succinct, comprehensive and a practical introduction to the use of arbitration, written by leading practitioners and scholars, it provides essential orientation and is a "must" for anyone with an interest in the field - from the seasoned to the neophyte. The AAA Handbook on Arbitration Practice ...
The Roles of Psychology in International Arbitration
The system of international arbitration is built on private contractual relations, yet has been endorsed by governments around the world as a fair and reliable alternative to litigation in State courts. As a private process, however, its authority and legitimacy derive entirely from the views and actions of those involved in the arbitral process, whether arbitrators, counsel, or parties. It is, though increasingly clear that psychological factors complicate, and in some cases radically change, every arbitral proceeding. In this context, psychological insights are crucial for understanding how international arbitration genuinely operates, and whether the legal framework currently applied to i...
The Story of Silver
"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financ...
