I'm honored to participate in this inaugural issue of the journal.
For more on this topic, see my article, Default Procedures, in the @pennlaw.bsky.social U. Penn. Law Review
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Check out Winning by Default, my contribution to the first @statesforum.bsky.social journal -- about how state civil courts hearing so many debt collection and housing cases can adapt to function without defendants, without lawyers, and ultimately, without courts.
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Just in time for the new semester, @guyrub.bsky.social, Ethan Leib, @pamelabookman.bsky.social, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social, Tal Kastner, & @jakelinford.bsky.social have made available a new open-source contracts casebook.
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My co-authors (@jakelinford.bsky.social, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social, @pamelabookman.bsky.social, Ethan Leib, & Tal Kastner) and I are excited to share a new project: an open-source, free, customizable & modular contract law casebook.
Check it out!
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Looking to make sense of our world of sanctions and economic statecraft? (Yeah, me too!)
Next Friday, February 21 at @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social, the Fordham International Law Journal symposium on Economic Sanctions: go.activecalendar.com/FordhamUnive...
Which states?
It's bonkers because it makes it really hard for alleged debtors to understand what the underlying debt might have been, whether they paid it, whether it's fraud, etc.
It's not bonkers in that I'm not surprised to learn this might be the case in terms of party in interest law.
Could go well with the $10-million-minimum-amount-in-controversy business division.
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Great public service here by @aratojulian.bsky.social for those of us getting going under another sky....
Must follow account 👇
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Work in progress
And, indeed, Musk’s action has not remained in federal court. Judge Pappert makes swift and nearly disdainful work of Musk’s attempts to grasp at federal jurisdiction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If Not Here, Where?: Transnational Litigation against US Tech Giants Around the World, NYU JILP 2024
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When I wrote about how US tech giants should be wary of pushing litigation out of US courts bc they might instead be sued elsewhere under less favorable legal regimes, I confess I did not see this *decillion*-dollar Russian judgment coming
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I've posted my short article, "Evidence of Compliance," written for the Clifford Symposium. It asks, should evidence of compliance with regulatory safety standards be admissible to show absence of a design defect? I could still tweak, so comments welcome!
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #368,696!
Not too shabby ...
I am here for your baseball content.
@johnpfaff.bsky.social @bennettcapers.bsky.social @maggiewittlin.bsky.social
This is fun trivia! Check it out!
I'm adding a cite to this too!
Fascinating study of the many fed ct cases resolved w/out adjudication.
Cf. state courts, where so many cases are resolved by default judgment. (See Default Procedures papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
The state and fed ct trends raise similar vexing Qs abt what US cts do and what they should do.
The 500 Shirts of Steve Bannon, by Dr Seuss
Thanks to Robin Effron for a generous JOTWELL post on my article, Default Procedures, forthcoming in U. Penn. L. Rev. (2025). It's about default judgments in state ct debt collection cases -- comments welcome!
![TODAY. MY STUDENTS TELL ME
Today, my students tell me that I look like someone who never drives a car, that I look like I am someone who takes a train everywhere, and I love that they see me like this, the same way that I love that one day, a student asks me, do you buy your clothes on english teacher dot com?, when the truth is, I would if such a place existed. Another day, a student tells me that I seem like the kind of person who is good at tending plants, that I seem exactly like someone who would care for dying plants and maybe even heal them, only I am the one adding maybe, because they said it with such conviction and another student agreed with them like this was simple and true, and I laughed, told them they were wrong, that I wish I were more like my grandmother, who was in fact a tender of gardens and all green things and what I don't tell my students is that I am so bad at taking care of anything including myself [plz let Tom know if you need the full alt text! out of room]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vcaay2y6qaxmedo6adtgegz/bafkreih5xe3v7rtkfpzymbsdxqay3b6iwohtrbepz2wigwfwaud2rgkrve)
Carla Sofia Ferreira (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social), with one of my favorite poems of all time
📰 Dutch Supreme Court throws out the Russian Federation's last appeal against seizure of iconic Russian vodka brands by the former Yukos shareholders
"This ruling of the Supreme Court paves the way for the sale of the Russian Federation's assets in satisfaction of the arbitral awards ," ...
👉 Young-OGEMID Seminar "Int'l Arbitration and Int'l Commercial Courts: Competitive or Complementary? (21 - 30 March 2022)" - panelists: Xandra Kramer, Andrew Godwin, Alyssa King, @pamelabookman.bsky.social -- Report: www.transnational-dispute-management.com/young-ogemid...
We've also written about international commercial courts' role in influencing and developing international commercial law -- which the SICC is well poised to do.
@alyssaesking.bsky.social and I have written about the phenomenon of foreign judges traveling to sit on the commercial courts of foreign jurisdictions -- like the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC)
I've written about "The Adjudication Business" for international commercial disputes here (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
This is a super interesting development in the realm of international commercial courts -- domestic courts focused on intl comm disputes -- which have stretched and challenged traditional boundaries est'd by conventional concepts of sovereignty and jurisdiction.
Singapore and Bahrain just agreed to set up an appeal mechanism from the new Bahrain International Commercial Court to the Singapore International Commercial Court. Minister Shanmugam: "This collaboration can advance our shared interests.”
