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• AI Entities and the Internal Affairs Doctrine

  Javier Milei recently wrote in the Financial Times that Argentina will soon create a new type of legal entity: the “nonhuman corporation,” operated entirely by AI entities.  These entities will have the limited liability protections of an ordinary corporation; “human shareholders may participate, but are not required.” Delaware, it seems, is developing something similar: The...

• When AI Quietly Hijacks Legal Judgment

  What follows is a speech that I presented yesterday at SubTech in Buenos Aires. If this sounds interesting to you, please read on… LawDroid Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This substack, LawDroid Manifesto, is here to keep you in the...

• Why Law Needs a New Entity to Govern AI Agents

  AI no longer just answers questions. The new systems, called AI agents, take autonomous actions: They book travel, write and run code, move money, and even run a cafe. Soon there will be billions of them, swarming, merging, splitting, and dissolving at machine speed. And just as soon, people will be harmed. Then law will...

• Hantavirus, Pets and the Cruise Ship Cluster

  I got a lot of media questions about hantavirus after the recent cluster of human cases was identified associated with a cruise ship, but those questions were primarily focused on basic facts about virus itself and its general epidemiology. As things have dragged on, there are now more questions about hantavirus and companion animals –...

• 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...

Featured documents

• The Clelia II Skirts Disaster Again in Antarctica

  The partially disabled Clelia II cruise ship is facing extreme weather conditions with 88 U.S. passengers aboard as it limps back to port in Argentina after one of its engines stopped working.  Operated by Polar Cruises, (but see comments below), the Clelia II is a Antarctica explorer vessel with a ...

• Vanderbilt Law Review Roundtable on DaimlerChrysler v. Bauman

  In the human rights litigation over Argentina’s “dirty war” of the 1970s and 1980s, a dispute over personal jurisdiction has reached the Supreme Court and will be argued on October 15 (DaimlerChysler AG v. Bauman). A group of Argentinian plaintiffs sued DaimlerChrysler AG, alleging that the company’...

• Argentina DPA Issues New Regulation on International Transfer of Personal Data

  On November 18, 2016, the Argentina Data Protection Agency (“DPA”) announced that it had issued DNPDP Disposition 60 –  a new regulation on international transfers of personal data (the “Regulation”).  The Regulation approves two model forms for the international transfer of data – one for use with ...

• Botulism cases linked to hummus in Argentina

  Two cases of foodborne botulism linked to hummus have been confirmed by Argentinian health authorities. The National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices (ANMAT) reported that an investigation confirmed the botulism cases and results of an epidemiological survey determined illness was ...

• Argentina • The companies that own projects for the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources that were awarded Renewable Electricity Supply Contracts (“PPAs”) that have not reached the Commercial Operation Date (“COD””), may choose to request the termination of their PPA or its renewal.

  By: Juan Manuel Barros and Antonio Arias. Through resolution No. 1,260/2021 (hereinafter, “Resolution 1,260/21”) of the Secretariat of Energy (Official Bulletin 12/29/2021), it was established that companies that own projects for the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources that were ...

• Trichinella outbreak sickens 20 in Argentina

  At least 20 people have been sickened in an outbreak of trichinosis in Argentina. Health officials in the province of Santa Fe said ill people reported consumption of chorizo seco, a type of dried sausage, from a local business. In the town of Acebal, 26 potentially exposed people have been...

• Non-U.S. Arbitral Award Recognized by U.S. Court – Argentina v. BG Group PLC

  Republic of Argentina v. BG Group PLC, Civil Action No. 08-485 (D.D.C. Jan. 2011), involved an application to confirm an arbitral award in the amount of $185 million plus other costs against the Republic of Argentina. The proceeding was brought under the Federal Arbitration Act 9 U.S.C. § 207 (2000)...

• Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Argentina’s Appeal

  On October 7, 2013, the Supreme Court issued an order denying Argentina’s petition for a writ of certiorari on the interim decision of the Second Circuit that Argentina violated the contractual provision that all bondholders must be treated equally (discussed here and here). The Supreme Court’s...

• Lindblad Expeditions’ National Geographic Orion Suffers Power Failure

  Lindblad Expeditions’ National Geographic Orion suffered power failure as the expedition ship was leaving Antarctica. It suffered engine failure while returning to the port of Ushuaia in Argentina. The ship has now returned via the Drake Passage to port in Ushuaia after sailing at reduced speed....

• Argentina imposes foreign exchange controls and obligations to repatriate exports proceeds

  By: Martin Mittelman and Augusto Mancinelli  On September 1, 2019, the Argentine Government issued Executive Decree No. 609/2019 (the “Decree”) which reinstated certain foreign exchange restrictions that had been in effect prior to 2016. The Decree was supplemented by Communication “A” 6,770 of the ...