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Sanctions
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Regulatory Oversight
US Lifts Most Sanctions on Syria
On May 23, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License 25 (GL 25), effectively lifting most sanctions imposed under the Syrian…
SmarTrade
Treasury Relaxes U.S. Economic Sanctions on Syria
By Scott E. Diamond**, Francesca M.S. Guerrero, Samir D. Varma, Aaron C. Mandelbaum
On May 23, 2025, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License (GL) No. 25 relaxing sanctions against the Government of Syria and twenty-eight…
Beyond the First 100 Days
United States Eases OFAC Sanctions on Syria
General License 25 effectively suspends OFAC sanctions targeting Syria. Stringent US export control restrictions on exports and reexports to Syria remain. By Les P. Carnegie, Damara Chambers, Charles Claypoole, Andrew P.…
Commercial Case Notes
Complaint Struck for Delay in Responding to Discovery Demands
By John Lundin
On May 13, 2025, the First Department issued a decision in Five Star Elec. Corp. v. Trustees of Columbia Univ., 2025 NY Slip Op. 02872, holding that a trial court…
Trade Compliance Resource Hub
U.S. eases Syrian sanctions; export controls remain unchanged
By Michael Lowell, Lizbeth Rodriguez-Johnson, Justin Angotti, Kirsten Lowell, Courtney E. Fisher
On May 23, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License 25, which authorizes a significant portion of previously prohibited transactions. The general license does not, however,…
China Justice Observer
China Details Implementation Rules for Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law
By Publisher
On 23 Mar. 2025, China’s State Council released the “Provisions on the Implementation of the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People’s Republic of China” (hereinafter the “Provisions”, 实施《中华人民共和国反外国制裁法》的规定), further refining…
eDiscovery Bytes
Episode 173: Fake Citations, Real Sanctions: AI Hallucinations Spark $31K in Sanctions
In Episode 173, Kelly Twigger discusses the imposition of sanctions and what those sanctions were following the submission of AI generated hallucinated citations in a brief to the Special Master…
The Trade Practitioner
EU Adopts 17th Sanctions Package Against the Russian Federation: Further Targets the “Shadow Fleet” and Expands Export Controls
On 20 May 2025, the European Council announced its 17th sanctions package against the Russian Federation. The latest measures reinforce the EU’s strategic objective of undermining Russia’s capacity to finance…
Legal Theory Blog
Bezemek on the Concept of Sanctions
Christoph Bezemek (University of Graz, Faculty of Law, Institute of Public Law and Political Science) has posted The Law Sanctions: Revisiting an Apparently Auto-Antonymous Concept (Bersier/Bezemek/Schauer, Sanctions: An Essential Element…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
“Confirm You’re Not a Robot”: AI-Written Briefs Could Lead to Sanctions
By Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Cherie Owen, Zachary Schroeder, Issac Schabes, Emily Golchini
On May 7, 2025, GAO issued a decision in Raven Investigations & Security Consulting, LLC, B-423447, warning the bid protest bar that artificial intelligence (“AI”)-based tools utilized without proper oversight may…