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A New Kind of Estoppel?
I want to thank all of the contributors to today’s symposium. I’m really pleased and honored to be able to host what I think has been a very good discussion of a significant current issue. I want to comment briefly on what Whytock and Robertson have to say about estoppel. As I understand their position,……
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A Response to the Whytock/Robertson Proposal
Aaron Marr Page is the Managing Attorney at Forum Nobis pllc and an advocate for the Lago Agrio plaintiffs. Chris Whytock and Cassandra Robertson have produced an excellent and timely piece of scholarship and kudos to Letter Blogatory for so keenly picking up on its import and hosting this symposium. I must pause to note……
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Forum Non Conveniens, Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, and the Chevron Litigation
Douglass Cassel is Notre Dame Presidential Fellow and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. He was also an advocate for Chevron in proceedings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Views expressed herein are his personal views, and not necessarily those of Notre Dame Law School, Chevron or any other……
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Tinkering with Private International Law as a Response to Alleged Human Rights Violations
Ronald A. Brand is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. Professors Christopher A. Whytock and Cassandra Burke Robertson, have provided a solid discussion of the doctrines of forum non conveniens and the recognition of foreign judgments in their Columbia Law Review article. I have commented on that article in the Columbia……
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Forum Non Conveniens and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Christopher A. Whytock is Assistant Professor of Law and Acting Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. The proper relationship between the forum non conveniens (“FNC”) doctrine and the enforcement of foreign judgments is debatable—but it seems quite clear that the status quo isn’t optimal. The Problem Here’s the problem. Based on……