Letters Blogatory is, as far as I know, the first blog to treat international judicial assistance as a blog-worthy topic in its own right. What do I mean by international judicial assistance? Well, there is international law, and then there is private international law, and within private international law there are the areas of law that have to do with how you can go about getting judicial authorities in one state to take actions on your behalf in aid of a proceeding in another state. That’s what I mean by international judicial assistance. Letters Blogatory covers international judicial assistance in civil and commercial cases. In particular, we cover:
- Service of process abroad, including service under the Hague Service Convention
- Obtaining evidence abroad for use in the United States, including proceedings under the Hague Evidence Convention
- Obtaining evidence in the United States for use abroad, including proceedings under the judicial assistance statute
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments
- Recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards, including awards under the New York Convention
Letters Blogatory was honored as one of the 100 best legal blogs by the ABA Journal in 2012.
I hear from readers from time to time, so I have a sense of who you are: Letters Blogatory reaches practicing lawyers in the United States and abroad, in law firms big and small, in in-house legal departments, and in government agencies. It reaches academics, journalists, and fellow law bloggers. And it reaches law students from countries and legal traditions around the world.
Is it wrong to reprint some of the kudos I’ve gotten in the last year? Here are a few:
I think your blog is excellent—I visit it almost every day to try to stay up-to-date on transnational litigation developments.
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As a sixty-plus professor, I am new to the world of blogging, and had not seen Letters Blogatory … until quite recently. I have read (so far) only your recent posts, but I must say that I find them to be admirably judicious and insightful.
Your blog is an important source of inspiration for me and the other members of my blog’s “staff”.
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