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True story: At a farewell dinner, a colleague  distributed books from his bookshelf among his now former colleagues. He did so based on title only, and he gave me William Gaddis’ ’A Frolic of His [...]

I am going to sneek this case into the series while I still legitmately can. The Nottebohm Case was a staple of international law teaching for a long time, but is now on the wane. And the reason [...]

Ever since starting this blog, I have wanted start writing short biographical articles about people that interest me. Of course, these people are mostly related to law. Some have come and gone, [...]

The movies that I pick to review are not necessarily good or bad. Sometimes I wonder why they are considered so good, like ‘Spotlight‘, and others because of the (sometimes [...]

Foreign policy and national security is at the forefront of the US Presidential Election this year. Publicly, the focus has been on two simple things. One, Donald Trump’s knowledge of and [...]

No, not talking about illegal downloads or medical patent infringement. Just the modern, and less fun version of Jack Sparrow. Armed  robbery on the high seas. See Captain Phillips. I was aware [...]