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A day in the life
I just came across this great description of the morning before a court appearance in Sally Rooney’s novel, Intermezzo, which I’ve been reading. True to life, except for the drugs. In the morning, hiss of the iron, buttered bread roll, milligram of alprazolam, blue tie or green. Stands at the dining table rearranging his papers……
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Yellow alert for arbitration
I wrote a post the other day about Arbitrus.ai, an AI “arbitrator” described in a recent paper. I wasn’t sure whether the paper was an elaborate prank meant as a send-up of AI hypesters and folks with strange ideas about formalism in the law. But no, it turns out, the authors are serious, and they……
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Case of the Day: Gartenberg v. Cooper Union
The case of the day is Gartenberg v. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (S.D.N.Y. 2025). The Cooper Union is a small private college in New York City. The complaint, filed by several Jewish students, makes detailed allegations about the school’s unsatisfactory response to the October 7 massacre, especially when set up……
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Against whatever this is
I wrote a post the other day called “Against Generative AI in Legal Writing.” These days I find it very easy to say what I am against. I am not going to give a list here. All right, I am going to give a partial list in a footnote. It is harder to say what……
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Case of the day: Servis-Terminal v. Drelle
The case of the day is Servis-Terminal LLC v. Drelle, [2025] EWCA Civ 62. Servis-Terminal was a Russian company in bankruptcy proceedings in Russia. It brought a claim in a Russian court against its former CEO, Valeriy Drelle, seeking to recover ₽2 billion on a loan Servis-Terminal had made to a third party, which failed……