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The Second Circuit closes the door on service by email in China
The case of the day is Smart Study Co. v. Shenzhenshixindajixieyouxiangongsi (2d Cir. 2025). This is one we’ve been waiting for. For years I have been making the case that: (1) when the Service Convention applies (that is, when the defendant is to be served in a Convention state and when the defendant’s address is……
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Lago Agrio: Tribunal issues Track III award
I spent years of my life keeping up with all the twists and turns of the Chevron/Ecuador case. There are nearly 400 Lago Agrio-related posts here at Letters Blogatory! But since the US Supreme Court denied Steven Donziger’s petition for review of his conviction for contempt of court in 2023, I’ve more or less lost……
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The Robot Arbitrator Can’t Issue Confirmable Awards
Introduction: How to fight the robot arbitrator There are a lot of reasons why I am pretty strongly opposed to allowing AI systems—what I like to call the “robot arbitrator”—to decide real disputes in the real world. I’ve written about them here at Letters Blogatory before. Here is a post that suggests that the robot……
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Case of the Day: BHP Group v. Pogust Goodhead
The case of the day is BHP Group (UK) Ltd. v. PGMBM Law Ltd., [2025] EWHC 3153 (TCC). PGMBM Law is the formal name of Pogust Goodhead, the class action law firm. Pogust Goodhead is representing the claimants in a multi-billion pound class action in England that arises out of the 2015 collapse of the……
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A last word on Schrödinger service?
For the last several years—maybe ten years?—I’ve written a short piece each year on a significant development in the law of cross-border service of process for the ABA Section of International Law’s Year in Review, which is published each year in the International Lawyer. This year, I’m writing about a recent case here in Boston,……
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