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A New Kind of Estoppel?
I want to thank all of the contributors to today’s symposium. I’m really pleased and honored to be able to host what I think has been a very good discussion of a significant current issue. I want to comment briefly on what Whytock and Robertson have to say about estoppel. As I understand their position,……
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Tinkering with Private International Law as a Response to Alleged Human Rights Violations
Ronald A. Brand is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. Professors Christopher A. Whytock and Cassandra Burke Robertson, have provided a solid discussion of the doctrines of forum non conveniens and the recognition of foreign judgments in their Columbia Law Review article. I have commented on that article in the Columbia……
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Symposium: Forum Non Conveniens And Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
I am very pleased to welcome readers to the first ever Letters Blogatory symposium! I got the idea from the folks at Opinio Juris, who do such things regularly and well. The topic of our mini-symposium is the relationship between the doctrine of forum non conveniens and the defenses that a judgment debtor can offer……
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Symposium!
Please visit Letters Blogatory tomorrow for what I hope will be an interesting symposium on the intersection between forum non conveniens and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. This is obviously a hot-button issue in light of the Chevron/Ecuador case, and several of the participants will touch on that case in the course of their……
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Case of the Day: Schiff v. Hurwitz
The case of the day is Schiff v. Hurwitz (W.D. Pa. 2012). Schiff was a patient of Dr. Hurwitz, who performed the “BodyTite Procedure” on Schiff. Personally, I would not recommend any medical procedure with a purposely misspelled word in the name, but that’s just me. Schiff used a medical device manufactured by Invasix in……