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• Argentina’s Labor Modernization Bill: Shifting Risk, Flexibility, and Workforce Strategy

  The Argentine Senate has given preliminary approval to an ambitious Labor Modernization Bill that would meaningfully recalibrate Argentina’s employment law framework. The proposal introduces sweeping amendments to the Employment Contract Law and related statutes, with a clear policy focus on reducing informality and litigation, improving predictability around employment status, and enabling greater operational flexibility—developments that...

• Poder Judicial y Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas plantean objeciones a reforma judicial

  Oposición del Poder Judicial y el Colegio de Abogados al Proyecto Senatorial 1096 por posibles conflictos constitucionales y efectos administrativos.

• The Withdrawal of Argentina from WHO: Another from Apology to Utopia Moment

  On 17 March 2025, the Secretary-General of the United Nations received a letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of the Argentine Republic, informing him, in his capacity as depositary of the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), of Argentina’s denunciation of the Constitution of the WHO. In this letter,...

• Argentina’s Labor Reform 2026: What Employers Need to Know

  On March 6, 2026, Argentina enacted its sweeping Labor Modernization Law, a reform that reshapes the country’s employment framework and introduces the most significant changes to labor relations in decades. With 196 articles, the law goes far beyond amending the Employment Contract Law (LCT), touching collective bargaining, labor procedures, severance systems and employer costs. Below...

• EU-Mercosur: Key developments shaping the trade agreement

  In a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape marked by rising tensions and global economic challenges, the European Union is accelerating efforts to diversify its trade partnerships. One of the most significant recent developments is the signing of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement (EMPA, or the Agreement) and the Interim Trade Agreement (iTA) on 17 January 2026, after...

• Has the European Parliament Shot Itself in the Foot?

  After 25 years of negotiations, the European Union (EU) and four Mercosur countries – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay – reached a political agreement on 6 December 2024 on a Partnership Agreement (EU-Mercosur Agreement). The geopolitical and geoeconomic importance of this Agreement cannot be understated (see further Larik). At a time where trade is increasingly...

• Martín Guzmán analiza escenarios pos-PROMESA en Conferencia Magistral en la UPR

  El Volumen 95 de la Revista Jurídica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico invita a la Conferencia Magistral que ofrecerá el Dr. Martín Guzmán, exministro de Economía de Argentina (2019–2022), profesor de economía en Columbia University y copresidente, junto al Premio Nobel Joseph E. Stiglitz, de la Initiative for Policy Dialogue, el miércoles, 11 de...

• The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America

  Disability The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America On Aug. 7, 2025, with Advisory Opinion OC-31/25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights took a decisive step by becoming the first international court to recognize the human right to care as an autonomous right. Published February 3, 2026 Author Mariana Brocca Share Share on LinkedIn Share...

• The Fight for Mental Health Is the Fight for Human Rights: Argentina’s Movement for Dignity and Inclusion

  Mental Health The Fight for Mental Health Is the Fight for Human Rights: Argentina’s Movement for Dignity and Inclusion In Argentina, austerity threatens hard-won progress in mental health. In Córdoba, the 12th March for the Right to Mental Health filled the streets with color and conviction — reminding us that mental health is built through...

• ¡19 años de DIPr Argentina!

  El 5 de octubre de 2006 nació este espacio que, con el tiempo, se convirtió en un punto de encuentro para quienes se interesan por el Derecho Internacional Privado. Estamos cumpliendo 19 años ininterrumpidos de publicaciones y no podemos dejar pasar la ocasión sin celebrarlo. Un camino recorrido En estos años publicamos miles de entradas:...

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• Second Circuit Reestablishes Attachments Against Argentina

  Capital Ventures International (CVI) v. Republic of Argentina, Dkt. Nos. 10-4520-cv (Lead) (2d Cir. July 2011), is, by the Court’s own count, roughly the nineteenth time the Second Circuit has had to deal with issues arising from Argentina’s default on its debt. On this appeal the Court modifies...

• Judge Hellerstein Rules That Spanish Bank With New York Branch Must Gather Information Globally for Judgment Collection Subpoena

  In an opinion yesterday, Judge Hellerstein emphatically rejected the arguments of a Spanish bank, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentina (S.A.) (“BBVA”), that, under the recent Supreme Court decision in Daimler v. Bauman and the Second Circuit’s recent ruling in Gucci v. Li, the Court lacked jurisdiction...

• Positive signs for issuers and the marketplace: Argentina economic briefing

  By: Marcelo Etchebarne The financial press continues to portray Argentina as another emerging-market casualty. But, to the contrary, there are a number of positive financial signs, for investors, the country and the marketplace, in today’s Argentine economy. In fact, President Mauricio Macri’s...

• Argentina Legislature Votes To Legalize Early Term Abortion

  As reported by NPR, Argentina’s Senate yesterday voted 38-29 (with one abstention) to approve the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill which allows abortions during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of  Argentina’s Congress, approved the bill on Dec. 11...

• 15 sick in Argentinian Trichinella outbreak

  Authorities in a province of Argentina have issued a warning following the discovery of a Trichinella outbreak. Related samples of bacon and dried chorizo sausage were positive for Trichinella spiralis. Products came from the factory of Agroindustria Los Andres S.R.L., located in the municipality...

• Poder Judicial y Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas plantean objeciones a reforma judicial

  Oposición del Poder Judicial y el Colegio de Abogados al Proyecto Senatorial 1096 por posibles conflictos constitucionales y efectos administrativos....

• Argentina’s Parliament Approves A Measure Limiting Amount Of Land That Can Be Purchased By Foreigners

  By Alejandro E. Moreno Fluctuating commodity prices, particularly with respect to the price of food and basic staples, have created a significant demand for arable land. The demand for arable land has, in turn, boosted the price Argentina’s rural land and caused a flurry of foreign investment. In...

• Judge Hellerstein Rules That Spanish Bank With New York Branch Must Gather Information Globally for Judgment Collection Subpoena

  In an opinion yesterday, Judge Hellerstein emphatically rejected the arguments of a Spanish bank, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentina (S.A.) (“BBVA”) that, under the recent Supreme Court decision in Daimler v. Bauman and the Second Circuit’s recent, ruling in Gucci v. Li, the Court lacked jurisdiction...

• Off to IAFP in Buenos Aires Argentina this week to talk Food Safety

  After speaking in Indiana last week and after speaking in Montana this week, I am off to Argentina to beat the drum on “why it is a bad idea to poison your customers,” and how to avoid litigation....

• Argentina notes downward trend in Trichinella outbreaks

  Argentinian authorities have published a report they hope will increase understanding of the Trichinella situation in the country. The National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (SENASA) report analyzed Trichinellosis reports between 2010 and 2019. Trichinellosis, or trichinosis, is a disease ...