Thanks, Noam, and congratulations on the good work in this case. I’ll tell you the story of the blog’s name. More than a decade ago, I had just made partner in a mid-sized Boston firm, where I had focused on business litigation. I sat at home one day thinking, “Crap! I need to find a good niche so that I can develop my own practice!” I had done a few letters of request under the Service and Evidence Conventions but was hardly an expert. Anyway, the name popped into my head, and I started Letters Blogatory, which led to meeting people, which led to getting cases, which led to … well, you get the idea. I owe a big part of my career to a moderately funny brainstorm in January 2011.

BTW, I love the name of your blog! Wish I thought of it first ;).

Anyway, thanks for writing about the case.

Kotodama, I am not an expert on expropriation, but I think that basically that’s right: if someone is clearly a citizen of state A, and state A expropriates his property, it’s not clear that the expropriation was contrary to international law, which is necessary before the US court can exercise jurisdiction.