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Article of the Day: Jie Huang on Recognition of Judgments In Hong Kong
In today’s article of the day, Conflicts Between Civil Law and Common Law in Judgment Recognition and Enforcement: When is the Finality Dispute Final?, 29 Wis. Int’l L. J. 70 (2011), Professor Jie Huang, of the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade’s School of Law, examines the difficulties involved in recognition and enforcement of Mainland Chinese……
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Senator Schumer’s Speech
Those of you who are long-time readers have been very patient with me as I have spent most of my blogging time writing about the war and what has followed from it. I’ve never lived through a bigger political earthquake. I have found I don’t have much mental energy for other extracurricular projects these days.……
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Kvetch of the Day: the FSIA and the Clerks
Okay, here is my kvetch of the day. I have a new FSIA case in a district that does not hear many FSIA cases. Under the FSIA, a foreign sovereign has sixty days, rather than twenty-one days, to answer a complaint. The clerk issued the ordinary twenty-one day summons, which was expected. I spoke with……
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Hague Service and Evidence Conventions: The US Central Authority’s Unusual Interpretation
A reader wrote in with the following case. He (a Mexican lawyer) asked PFI, the contractor that carries out the day-to-day work of the Department of Justice in its capacity as central authority for the United States under the Hague Service Convention, to serve a summons on a Mexican national in the United States. The……
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The Donziger Cert. Petition: You Cannot Not Watch
I cannot look away from the Donziger cert. petition drama. Continue Reading The Donziger Cert. Petition: You Cannot Not Watch