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The Supreme Court, Service of Process, and Legal History: Part 1 of a Letters Blogatory Polemic
How was process served at common law in England? I’m not asking just for the heck of it: next week I hope to have a post that makes some points about the Supreme Court’s reliance on legal history in its explanations for the modern doctrines of service of process and personal jurisdiction. But first things……
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The Israel Apartheid Report: Give Me A Break
When I was in college, a few friends and I took Richard Falk’s course on international relations. We were just undergraduates, and while we were majoring in politics, we were not concentrating in international relations, but rather in political theory. So we wanted what the course catalogue promised: an introduction to the field of international……
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Trump on Immigration: The Worst Policies Are The Most Clearly Lawful
How should we view President Trump’s immigration policies? Here are some thoughts.
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Ecuador in the Twilight Zone
For those interested in the Lago Agrio case, I’m trying to publish some reactions to last week’s first-round presidential election from various points on the Ecuadoran political spectrum. The first is from Gustavo Domínguez, whom I met on my 2014 trip to Ecuador. Domínguez was a consultant to the Ecuadoran government and one of the……
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Water Splash: Notes on Volkswagen from the new ABA Treatise
The publication of the new ABA treatise, which I noted yesterday, reminded me that I had already written about the question I noted last month in my discussion of the government’s amicus brief in the Water Splash case, namely whether the Hague Service Convention applies to all judicial documents, or just to the summons and……