A recent article in today’s international edition of Der Spiegel reports on an interesting analogue, in Germany, to the Majid Kakavand case in France. Just as the court in France seems likely to deny the request by the U.S. for…
OFAC's $735,407 fine of Hilton for hotels in Sudan may exceed the agency's authority.
Last week I posted on the new Somalia “smart” sanctions and noted that the concerns by the maritime industry that the new sanctions would prohibit ransom payments were unfounded. The industry was concerned that language in the executive order, which…
Last week the Censorship Research Center issued a press release announcing that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a license authorizing the export of the Center’s Haystack software to Iran. That software permits Internet surfers in Iran to…
As you may have noticed, we have recently made a few changes to Export Law Blog. First, we’ve spiffed up the visual design of the site a bit, having been more or less forced to redesign the look of the…