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Case of the Day: Kumtor Gold Co. v. Kyrgyz Republic
Okay, today’s case of the day, Kumtor Gold C. v. Kyrgyz Republic (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2021), raises an interesting issue. Kumtor Gold Co., a subsidiary of Centerra Gold (a Canadian firm), managed a gold mine in Kyrgyzstan. It filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case in New York after the Kyrgyz government seized the mine in May.……
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Gary Born’s Critique of the Choice of Court Agreement Convention Misses the Mark
Gary Born has published a series of posts not just critiquing the HCCH 2005 Choice of Court Convention, but urging states not to ratify it, or to denounce it if they have already joined. Born’s first three posts were published in June on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, where he also published two follow-up posts. Born’s……
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Paper of the Day: Bill Dodge on Substituted Service and The Hague Convention
Friend of Letters Blogatory William S. Dodge, of the UC Davis School of Law, has published a draft of a paper on substituted service that is forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review. Bills’ excellent article reviews the variety in state law on the use of affiliated companies as involuntary agents for service and……
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Letters Blogatory’s New Home!
Readers, the day has finally arrived. I have finished the migration of Letters Blogatory, the web’s oldest blog (as far as I know!) devoted to international judicial assistance, to its new home in the Folkman LLC website. Here is the tl;dr: The new homepage URL for the blog is https://lettersblogatory.com/lettersblogatory. Please start using it to……
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At the Donziger Trial
Ispent the day yesterday in an overflow room watching the criminal contempt trial of Steven Donziger. The day lacked the drama of Day 1 of the trial. No one was chanting in the street. I did not see Roger Waters or Susan Sarandon. There were no dramatic opening statements. Still, it was interesting to see……