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The ICJ’s Decision
The ICJ’s decision today on provisional measures in the case South Africa brought against Israel under the Genocide Convention is not the end of the world. It requires Israel to “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of” Article II of the Genocide Convention, and to……
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Chimpanzee Habeas!
The Nonhuman Right Project, fresh off another loss in its elephant habeas quest, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in Michigan, supposedly on behalf of chimpanzees held at the DeYoung Family Zoo. The legal issues are in my view the same whether the non-human animal in question is an elephant or a……
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More on Rulemaking and Cross-Border Discovery: FRCP 28
My last post on the desirability of amending the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to account for cross-border discovery got me thinking more about the topic. Let’s look at one of my favorite rules, FRCP 28. It’s little-known, but in some ways it’s the key rule for cross-border discovery practice. Rule 28 provides that that a……
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More on the Jewish Question at Harvard
Professor Ben Eidelson of Harvard Law School has posted a defense of President Claudine Gay’s testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce that implies that she was wrong to apologize. “She did nothing wrong,” he writes, and “the real failure of leadership would be surrendering to a campaign so hostile to our……
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The Jewish Question at Harvard
I cannot believe what I heard from the leaders of some of our great universities at yesterday’s hearing on campus antisemitism in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The question was maybe the easiest question ever put to a witness at a congressional hearing: Does calling for the genocide of the Jewish people……