Missouris Legal Fight Against China Continues with Sean Mirski and Aaron Sobel
On today\u2019s episode, Matt Gluck, Research Fellow at Lawfare, spoke with Sean Mirski and Aaron Sobel of Arnold & Porter. Mirski practices foreign-relations, international, and appellate law, and Sobel practices international and appellate law. They discussed Mirski and Sobel\u2019s recent Lawfare piece, co-authored with John Bellinger and Catherine McCarthy, on the Eighth Circuit\u2019s decision reviving part of Missouri\u2019s coronavirus-related lawsuit against several defendants connected to the Chinese government.
They spoke about the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Missouri\u2019s claims and why one of them survived the Eighth Circuit\u2019s jurisdictional review, how this decision might affect other coronavirus lawsuits, and the potential implications of the decision for U.S. foreign policy, among other topics.
Check out Mirski\u2019s recent book, \u201cWe May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus,\u201d which examines the roots of the United States\u2019 ascension to hegemony and was rated by Kirkus as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of 2023.
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