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Remembering the AMIA Bombing
I attended a moving and somber remembrance yesterday for the victims of the AMIA bombing in Bueno Aires, exactly thirty years ago. It was sponsored by my favorite Jewish organization, the AJC, and held at my synagogue under even tighter-than-usual security, which is saying something. Members of the Argentine Jewish community in Boston were there……
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The Special Commission on Service by Email, Part 1
The Special Commission on the practical operation of the Service, Evidence, and Access to Justice Conventions has just completed its 2024 meeting and, at last, taken on the issue of service by email under the Hague Service Convention. Its conclusions are welcome and should have a significant influence on US courts’ decisions, which in recent……
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Go Visit The Netherlands
Readers, I will have some posts for you on some of the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Commission once they are made public. In the meanwhile, some thoughts on the visit. Here are some things that I love about the Netherlands: A couple of things I did not love. Overall, it’s a wonderful country……
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Researching Obscure Questions
Legal research has changed dramatically over the past two decades. I think I was probably in the last few cohorts of law students who learned how to shepardize cases using the books and who made the digests, restatements, leading treatises, and other classic secondary sources the starting place for research. Today, the tendency is simply……
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The Jorge Glas Affair
Jorge Glas is an Ecuadoran electrical engineer who served as vice president in the Correa administration. He stayed in office briefly under Correa’s successor, Lenín Moreno, but he was convicted of accepting millions of dollars in bribes in the Odebrecht scandal. He served years in prison and was later sentenced to many more years in……