Comments on: Case of the Day: de Fontbrune v. Wofsy https://lettersblogatory.com/2016/10/06/case-day-de-fontbrune-v-wofsy-2/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2016/10/06/case-day-de-fontbrune-v-wofsy-2/#comment-2662 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 21:17:36 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=23443#comment-2662 In reply to Vivian Curran.

Thanks Vivian. Congratulations to the judge for getting French law right—that’s not such an easy thing for someone schooled in the common law to do!

]]> By: Vivian Curran https://lettersblogatory.com/2016/10/06/case-day-de-fontbrune-v-wofsy-2/#comment-2661 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:28:00 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=23443#comment-2661 The court was also right on the issue of astreintes, the French mechanism for ensuring compliance, which has had, one might say, a long and checkered history in French law. For anyone interested, it has been nowhere more beautifully or humorously told from an American perspective than by John Dawson (although the French institution was reformed at a later point):

John P. Dawson, Specific Performance in France and Germany, 57 Mich. L. Rev. 495, 514-32 (1959).

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