NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW Winter 2006 Vol. 19, No. 1 Articles Recognition and Enforcement of United States Money Judgments in Brazil Maria Angela Jardim de Santa Cruz Oliveira.....................................................1 A Viable Model for International Criminal Justice: The Special Court for Sierra Leone J. Peter Pham.....................................................................................................37 It's Not All Mutilation: Distinguishing Between Female Genital Mutilation and Female Circumcision Natalie J. Friedenthal.......................................................................................111 Recent Decisions Jama v. Immigration & Customs Enforcement ................................................155 The United States Supreme Court held that removal of a criminally convicted alien pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(2)(E)(iv) does not require advance consent from the recipient country's government. World Book v. International Business Machines Corp. ...................................163 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York followed previous Second Circuit decisions in asserting the need for plaintiffs to prove substantial effects of the alleged trademark infringement on domestic commerce to establish extraterritorial application of the Lanham Act. Bigio v. Coca-Cola Co. ....................................................................................169 In declining to hear this case of Canadian plaintiffs claiming uncompensated expropriation of property owned by Jews by Egypt in 1962, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York found that policy issues, including international comity and forum non conveniens, warranted its decision not to exercise its jurisdiction over the controversy, even though the prerequisites for jurisdic- tion had been satisfied. Acree v. Republic of Iraq..................................................................................175 The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed an action by American prisoners of war during the 1991 Gulf War against the Republic of Iraq, its president, and its intelligence service seeking damages for injuries allegedly suffered as a result of torture inflicted on the prisoners of war while in Iraqi captivity. Otal Invs. Ltd. v. Capital Bank PLC ................................................................183 In an action based on a collision in international waters, the parties stipulated only to Article 4 of the 1910 Brussels Collision Convention, so other provisions of the 1910 Convention did not apply. Medellin v. Dretke ............................................................................................189 The United States Supreme Court dismissed as improvidently granted its writ of certiorari in a case asserting that Texas courts wrongly rejected the defendant's claim based on failure to notify him of his rights to consular access under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, despite the ruling by the International Court of Justice forbidding courts in the United States to rely on a procedural default. NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL LAW & PRACTICE SECTION Published with the assistance of St. John’s University School of Law NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW Winter 2006 Vol. 19, No. 1 NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL LAW & PRACTICE SECTION © 2006 New York State Bar Association ISSN 1050-9453 INTERNATIONAL LAW & PRACTICE SECTION OFFICERS—2006 Chair ..............................................................John F. 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