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Naivete On The Left
We’re familiar, after years and years of it, with the idea of right-wing ideologues coming to Washington and having no idea how to govern. This is what has led to government shutdowns, narrowly-averted defaults on the public debt, and in general, a lack of legislative accomplishments despite Republican control of both houses of Congress. And……
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Belfast Project: Ivor Bell To Stand Trial
Back in 2016 I reported that Ivor Bell was to be tried for the murder of Jean McConville. If you recall from my prior coverage of the Belfast Project case, McConville was disappeared and murdered during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Although Bell denies it, the UK government seems to have obtained a recording from……
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Case to Watch: Sahyouni v. Mamisch
I’m keeping my eye on Sahyouni v. Mamisch, Case No. C-372/16, a case in the EU Court of Justice. The husband and the wife, both Syrian nationals by birth, were married in an Islamic court in Homs, Syria in 1999. They moved to Germany, and both were German citizens. In 2013, the husband divorced the……
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China Signs COCA
The Hague Conference has announced that China has signed the Choice of Court Agreement Convention. It joins the European Union, Mexico, Singapore, Ukraine, and the United States as signatory. To date, the EU, Mexico, and Singapore have ratified or acceded to the Convention, and the Convention is in effect between them.
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Monkey Selfie Case Settles
The Monkey Selfie case has come to a depressing and cynical end. The case had to do with a photograph of an Indonesian monkey. David Slater, a professional photographer, set up a camera on a tripod in the monkey’s habitat and left the camera’s remote trigger near the camera. One monkey, Naruto, picked up the……