Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • The MTA and indoctrination in K-12 education in Massachusetts

    Teachers are workers, and they have a real and legitimate interest in their wages and in the conditions of their employment. Many teachers are represented by a union, and here in Massachusetts, many are represented by the Massachusetts Teachers Association. Teachers in our public schools are also civil servants entrusted with the basic education of……

  • New Feature: Search by Jurisdiction

    Readers, I am happy to announce a new Letters Blogatory feature that I hope you will find helpful. You can now search my archive of thousands of posts for posts on cases decided in a particular jurisdiction. I have spent a lot of time over the last couple of months coding the archive. This was……

  • I Want to Believe in International Law

    I want to believe in international law. But as I’ve said in many posts over the last year, I think there is something deeply wrong with what many scholars say public international law tells us about the war in Gaza. The way I’ve expressed this is to say that I am not an expert in……

  • My database is too big

    Readers, for nearly fifteen years, I have been giving you links to PDFs of the court decisions I write about. And I have been hosting those PDFs on my own server. The RECAP project was very new when I started, and I did not hear of it for several years. The upshot is that I……

  • Case of the Day: Sillam v. Labaton Sucharow

    The case of the day is Sillam v. Labaton Sucharow LLP (S.D.N.Y. 2024). Sillam was a French businessman. According to his complaint, he and Descroubres, who was predecessor in interest to Sillam’s fellow plaintiff, Saulnier, had a fee-splitting agreement with Labaton Sucharow. Sillam was to get 15% of Labanon’s earnings from clients that Sillam referred……