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Proof of Life
Amid all the bad news in the world, I was overjoyed to read that Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is alive in Gaza. I don’t know Hersh or his family, but my daughter, like many Americans who have visited Israel in recent years, got to know him, and so my family has felt a closer connection……
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Case of the Day: BonSens v. Pfizer
The case of the days BonSens.org v. Pfizer, Inc. (2d Cir. 2024). BonSens is an organization of “concerned scientists, medical doctors, legal experts and citizens.” It brought an action in France seeking to nullify an indemnification clause in an advance purchase agreement Pfizer and BioNTech, manufacturers of COVID vaccines, had made with the European Commission……
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Seeing the Eclipse
My wife and I watched the total solar eclipse from a back yard in Kingston, Ontario. The day before the eclipse was perfectly clear, without a cloud in the sky, but the day of the eclipse was pretty cloudy, and we worried that we wouldn’t get to see much. But the atmosphere was festive, and……
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The Scholars’ Choice
The opinions of legal scholars are not that important to the day-to-day work of most American lawyers and judges. In 2007, Judge Jacobs told a crowd of law professors, “I haven’t opened up a law review in years. No one speaks of them. No one relies on them.” And in 2011, Chief Justice Roberts said:……
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Getting a Chinese Apostille
I received my first Chinese apostille today. It’s purpose is to authenticate a Chinese judgment for use in a US case. The process was a little bit more complicated and time-consuming than I would have wished, but it shows that the Apostille Convention is now in effect between the US and China not just in……