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... at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies on "Can One Validly Sell Without Agreeing on a Price? Comparing French Civil Law, the Common Law and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)." Edith Brown Weiss (Georgetown Univ. - Law) will deliver a lecture today at the Centre for International Legal Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University's School of International Studies. The topic of the lecture is "Reflections on the Concept of Intergenerational Equity and ...

... When my father returned to New York [after the Army], he was hired by a general practice firm called Galef & Jacobs, where he continued to learn the litigation trade. . . . In 1965 and hurting for better wages, my father agreed to join Larry ... time. Although it was clear my father had found his calling, it was anything but clear that Milberg & Weiss would become an institutional success due to the risks of taking on corporate behemoths on behalf of small investors on a contingency basis. ...

Everyone filing bankruptcy is entitled to certain exemptions (see the excellent article by Brett Weiss). One of the most common of those is a homestead exemption. The amount of the exemption varies from state to state. Thus, although it's easy to say that anybody owning a home is entitled to exempt at least part of [...]

An article about my work has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times (and is syndicated to several websites), entitled Former Attorney Tackles Workplace Issues, FTM Borderlands and Transphobia," written by Jacob Anderson-Minshall. He's done a great job of summarizing my work so far. You may read the full version here. (The SF Bay Times version is shorter.)(If you are viewing this blog off-site, note that hyperlinks are available in the original at [transworkplace.blogspot.com])

Chapter 13 plans come in all shapes and sizes. They vary from district to district. The amount paid through the plan can vary as well, so long as certain minimums are met. My colleague, Brett Weiss, wrote an excellent article on the requirements for calculating plan payments. Often a chapter 13 is filed when the debtor [...]

... Citizenship Building and the United Nations: Is the UN Engaged in a "Citizenization" Process? Mark Beeson & Stephen Bell, The G-20 and International Economic Governance: Hegemony, Collectivism, or Both? Eric A. Heinze, Nonstate Actors in the International Legal Order: The Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict and the Law of Self-Defense David Long & Frances Woolley, Global Public Goods: Critique of a UN Discourse Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, & Richard Jolly, The "Third" United Nations

... Monitoring of Domestic Courts in BIT Arbitrations. A Brief Inventory of Some Issues Audley Sheppard, Arbitrator Independence in Investment Arbitration Loretta Malintoppi, Provisional Measures in Recent Proceedings: What Parties Request and What Tribunals Order Friedl Weiss, Inherent Powers in Investment Arbitration Irmgard Marboe, ICSID Annulment Decisions - 3 Generations Revisited Ieva Kalnina & Domenico Di Pietro, The Scope of ICSID Review and Erga Omnes Effect of Annulment Decisions. The ...

... Pruitt, Migration, Development, and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women Alice Edwards, Human Security and the Rights of Refugees: Transcending Territorial and Disciplinary Borders Ayelet Shachar, The Shifting Border of Immigration Regulation Adam Weiss, Transnational Families in Crisis: An Analysis of the Domestic Violence Rule in E.U. Free Movement Law Anthony J. Colangelo, Universal Jurisdiction as an International "False Conflict" of Laws Wolfgang Kaleck, From Pinochet to Rumsfeld: Universal ...

My friend and colleague, Brett Weiss, wrote a great post on converting a Chapter 13 bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. He pointed out a number of good reasons to do it, and a number of benefits. But what if you're in a Chapter 7, and get behind in your home or car payments? Under those [...]

... Professional Liability Friday, March 2, 2007 By Norman B. Arnoff and Sue C. Jacobs Norman B. Arnoff, a practitioner in New York City, and Sue C. Jacobs, a member of Goodman & Jacobs, write that terms and risks embedded in contracts and not easily discernable by the client are more often than not the predicate for legal malpractice if ... Brad S. Karp Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, review a recent ruling which, although it has not ...