NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW Winter 2012 Vol. 25, No. 1 Articles Traveling Violation: A Legal Analysis of the Restrictions on the International Mobility of Athletes Mike Salerno ........................................................................................................1 The Nullum Crimen Sine Lege Principle in the Main Legal Traditions: Common Law, Civil Law, and Islamic Law Defining International Crimes Through the Limits Imposed by Article 22 of the Rome Statute Rodrigo Dellutri .................................................................................................37 When Minority Groups Become “People” Under International Law Wojciech Kornacki ..............................................................................................59 Recent Decisions Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown .........................................127 The U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause did not permit North Carolina state courts to exercise in personam jurisdiction over a U.S.-based tire manufacturer’s foreign subsidiaries. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Kirtsaeng ..............................................................131 The Second Circuit extended copyright protection to the plaintiff-appellee’s foreign-manufactured books, which the defendant-appellant imported and resold in the United States, pursuant to a finding that the “first-sale doctrine” does not apply to works manufactured outside of the United States. Sakka (Litigation Guardian of) v. Société Air France ................................... 141 The Ontario Superior Court of Justice interpreted Article 29 of the Warsaw Convention, pursuant to the intent of its drafters, as applying to the exclusion of local law; it granted the defendant Société Air France’s motion to dismiss on the ground that the plaintiff failed to bring a cause of action within the two-year window under Article 29. NML Capital, Ltd. v. Banco Central de la República Argentina .....................147 The Second Circuit held that funds in a central bank or monetary authority’s own account are immune from attachment regardless of whether that bank or authority is independent from its parent state. Walters v. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ltd. .............................153 The Second Circuit held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s execution-immunity provision may be applied when the foreign sovereign entity fails to appear. NML Capital, Ltd. v. Argentina ........................................................................159 The U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y., found that Argentina’s broad control over ENARSA’s general activities did not render that instrumentality an alter ego of the sovereign. NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SECTION Published with the assistance of St. John’s University School of Law NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW Winter 2012 Vol. 25, No. 1 NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SECTION © 2012 New York State Bar Association ISSN 1050-9453 (print) ISSN 1933-849X (online) INTERNATIONAL SECTION Enrique E. Liberman Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt OFFICERS—2011 900 Third Avenue Chair New York, NY 10022 Andre R. Jaglom, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse [email protected] & Hirschtritt LLP Timo P. 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