Author: Ted Folkman

  • Loriot v. Wikipedia: Transatlantic Service and Injunctive Relief

    International Judicial Assistance Brigade member Peter Bert is back with a report on a recent service of process case from Germany. The case appears rightly decided: assuming that Loriot’s daughter was required to serve the injunction by a method permitted by the Hague Service Convention, service by postal channels was plainly sufficient in light of……

  • Thoughts on “Recognition in a Corrupt World”

    Last Friday’s symposium in Philadelphia was pretty darn interesting, and I had great fun participating and meeting the other panelists. For obvious reasons I didn’t live blog my own panel, “Recognition in a Corrupt World,” and so I wanted to give a very brief report on my contribution to the discussion. My talk harkened back……

  • Panel Four: International Search for a Remedy

    Panel Four is about to get started. The topic is International Search for a Remedy, with Judith Kimerling and Chiara Giorgetti. Hernán Pérez Loose was unfortunately unable to make it due to the storm.

  • Panel Three: U.S. Courts as Arbiters of Global Human Rights Disputes

    Welcome back! We are about to get started with U.S. Courts as Arbiters of Global Human Rights Disputes, with John B. Bellinger III, Vivian Curran, and Roger Alford. I imagine the centerpieces will be the ATS and Kiobel.

  • Panel One: Vulnerability to Suit Amid Changing Doctrines

    Welcome to the Letters Blogatory liveblog of the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Journal of International Law’s symposium, Mass Torts Litigation in a Shrinking World! Just to let you know how this will work, I will be posting one post for each panel, and if you click on the title of the post, you will……