Month: August 2011

  • The Access To Justice Gap In Transnational Litigation

    HT to Jacob Katz Cogan for a pointer to a new paper by Christopher A. Whytock and Cassandra Burke Robertson, Forum Non Conveniens & The Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, now available on SSRN. Those of you who are following the Lago Agrio litigation will know that when the Ecuadorian plaintiffs first sued Texaco, they sued……

  • Case of the Day: In re Toft

    Today’s case of the day, In re Toft (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2011),  involves attempts by the creditors of Dr. Jürgen Toft, a celebrity knee surgeon in Munich, to obtain recognition and enforcement of a “Mail Interception Order” granted by a German insolvency court, which would, in effect, give the administrator of Toft’s bankruptcy estate in Germany……