Washington Foreign Law Society

January 10, 2019WFLS Pre-Holiday Wine and Cheese Party with the Ambassador of Hungary

May 17, 2018Video: WFLS and Stimson Center Discussion: “The Nuke Ban Treaty: Now What?”

March 10, 2018First Look! Compliance Update on the Newly-Effective EU General Data Protection Regulation

September 18, 2019 Agudas Chasidei Chabad v. Russian Federation: Who Can Break the Deadlock?

Come learn why Russian State Museums’ art loans to the United States have been stopped for more than 10 years and help explore ways all parties involved might find a resolution. In early 2013 the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted Agudas Chasidei Chabad of the United States’ (“Chabad”) motion for civil contempt sanctions against the Russian Federation, for not returning to Chabad a collection of religious books, manuscripts and handwritten documents that were seized by Nazi Germany during the invasion of Poland and subsequently transferred by the Soviet Red Army to Russia in 1945.… Read More »