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Cuba and International Judicial Assistance
On Wednesday, President Obama announced that the United States and Cuba will normalize their relations. This announcement, the long-overdue release of American Alan Gross on humanitarian grounds, and the honorable exchange of three of the so-called “Cuban Five” for a US intelligence agent, show that despite the predictable fury from American hardliners on Cuba such……
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Book Review: Elizabeth Williams and Sue Russell, The Illustrated Courtroom: 50 Years of Court Art
I’ve always thought that a good courtroom sketch can tell you more about what really goes on in a trial than a transcript or even sometimes than a good firsthand narrative account. A trial is a drama, and sometimes the drama is conveyed better by the expression on the witness’s face, or the body language……
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Letters Blogatory Mourns The Victims Of The School Shooting In Pakistan
My colleague Javier Ochoa at Cartas Blogatorias suggested that our two blogs should not be silent about the atrocious murder of more than a hundred students at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan yesterday. I share his sentiment. Yesterday’s attack recalled the sadness we felt after the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre, but in a way it……
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Maya Steinitz on “The Case For An International Court of Civil Justice”
Maya Steinitz of the University of Iowa College of Law has recently published The Case For An International Court Of Civil Justice, 67 Stan. L. Rev. Online 75 (2014). The paper proposes creation of an international court to exercise jurisdiction over cross-border torts. I’d like to congratulate Professor Steinitz on her contribution to the debate……
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Case of the Day: In re Application for an Order Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782
The case of the day is In re Application for an Order Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 (2d Cir. 2014). This is the appeal from In re Application of Berlamont, the case of the day from August 21, 2014.