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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……
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Case of the day: Isaac Industries v. Petroquímica de Venezuela
The case of the day is Isaac Industries, Inc. v. Petroquímica de Venezuela, SA (11th Cir. 2025). Isaac, a Florida wholesale chemical distributor, had a contract with Bariven, a Venezuelan oil and chemical company “associated with or owned by” the state, to sell 2-ethylhexanol for nearly $3,000 per metric ton. Bariven ordered almost 6,000 metric……