Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • A New Paper On Shipwrecks

    As a Christmas treat, I am pleased to be able to reprint, with the author’s kind permission, IJA member Jie Huang’s new paper, “Legal Battles over Underwater Shipwrecks in the High Seas: The Case of the Odyssey.” The paper is also available at the ASIL website. It is especially interesting to hear from Chinese scholars……

  • The Year in Review: The Second Circuit Steps to the Plate

    As I did last year, I am closing out 2012 with a couple of “year in review” posts. This gives me a chance to look back and see if I can spot themes in the past year in the wild and wonderful world of international judicial assistance. As a New Englander it gives me no……

  • Belfast Project: Amici Support Moloney & McIntyre

    At least four amici have filed briefs in support of Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre’s petition for a writ of certiorari in the Belfast Project case. Here they are, without any editorial comment from me: Irish-American Groups’ Brief Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’s Brief Article 19: Global Campaign For Free Expression’s Brief Social……

  • Chevron Turns On Trillium, One Of Its Owners

    The Lago Agrio plaintiffs and Steven Donziger were on the hot seat on Tuesday, but today it’s Chevron’s turn. One of Chevron’s shareholders is Trillium Asset Management. Trillium has been a regular sponsor of shareholder resolutions regarding Chevron’s environmental policies, and in May 2011 Trillium signed a letter with other shareholders calling on Chevron “to……

  • Lago Agrio: The Cabrera Report—Mystery Solved

    Today Letters Blogatory wades further into the Lago Agrio mire than usual. The question is one I raised back in April, when Doug Cassel’s open letter was still the hot topic: who wrote the Cabrera report? Who wrote the Cabrera report? The Cassel memorandum points to emails in which one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers seemingly……