Introduction: a treaty everyone knows is unconstitutional
Ecuador is once again at the centre of global debates on investor–State dispute settlement (ISDS). In December 2025, President Noboa signed a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that
Global Freedom of Expression, Columbia University: Newsletter, 12 December 2025
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is
Ecuador criticized for freezing Indigenous and environmental group bank accounts
The Ecuadorian government’s financial crimes agency froze the bank accounts of several Indigenous and environmental groups, using secret intelligence information in an apparent effort to silence protests, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
Juanita Goebertus, Americas director at Human Rights
United States and Ecuador Reach Framework Agreement on Reciprocal Trade
According to a Joint Statement issued by the White House on November 13, 2025, the United States and the Republic of Ecuador have entered into a Framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade to “provide access to each other’s markets
Insight On The Pintado Matter
This post is from Andrew Feldman (Feldman Firm PLLC).
Since President Trump issued the Executive Orders “pausing” the enforcement of the FCPA, lots of large law firms decried the potential end of the FCPA and worried that there would be
Individual Pleads Guilty In Connection With Prior FCPA Enforcement Actions Involving Ecuador
This prior post discussed the many FCPA (and related) enforcement actions concerning Ecuador’s Seguros Sucre S.A. (“Seguros Sucre”), an alleged state-owned insurance company and “instrumentality” of the Ecuadorian government.
Among the enforcement actions were criminal charges announced by the DOJ in
U.K. Announces Enforcement Action Involving Insurance Sector In Ecuador
As detailed below, in the past approximate five years, there have been several FCPA enforcement actions against companies and individuals involved in the insurance sector in Ecuador.
Tysers Insurance Brokers Limited and H.W. Wood Limited (2023)
As highlighted in this
Loja Living: Our Interview Fran Metz, an American Expat in Ecuador
Introduction
Relocation to Ecuador from the USA
Fran Metz has always had a restless spirit. Born in Hawaii and raised in California, she moved around the U.S. before arriving in Durango, Colorado, in 1990 to attend Fort Lewis College, where
The Cost of Progress: The Tension Between Economic Gain and Indigenous Survival
In Fall 2024, the Human Rights at Home Law Profs Blog is excited to feature a series of blog posts focusing on human rights and the environment written by students in the International Human Rights Clinic at UIC Law. This
USDA FSIS issues public health alert over pork illegally imported from Ecuador
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for frozen ready-to-eat pork mortadella products that may have been illegally imported from Ecuador, a country ineligible to export meat and poultry products