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13 Nov 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Kip Viscusi: current structure of tort law gives firms like General Motors reason not to investigate risks/benefits of their designs [Alison Frankel, Reuters] California woman in trouble after allegedly sending “faked treatment documents and burn photos from a hospital website” to bolster hot coffee spill claim against McDonald’s [ABA Journal] Despite Kumho Tire, Joiner, and amendments to evidence rules in 2000, Eighth Circuit cuts its own liberal path on expert witness… [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 4:39 am by Amy Howe
  Commentary on the case comes from Akiva Shapiro in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Garrett Epps for The Atlantic, Eugene Kontorovich of The Volokh Conspiracy (parts one and two), Marty Lederman at Just Security, Jack Goldsmith at Lawfare, Michael Ramsey at The Originalism Blog, Gershom Gorenberg in The American Prospect, and Peter Spiro at Opinio Juris. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
U.S. ruling was a letdown, notably absent was a liberal concurrence defending broad treaty power against critique of Thomas, Scalia et al [Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View, Peter Spiro/Opinio Juris, Julian Ku and John Yoo, David Golove And Marty Lederman] Think before you ratify: in controlled experiment, framing proposed change in domestic law as “required by human rights treaty” boosted support especially among Republicans [Spiro/OJ; more on international human… [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
John Fund, SCOTUS’s big case on securities class actions, two lawprofs are jousting [Alison Frankel, Reuters, and there's a Cato connection; earlier] For expats, FATCA raises “prospect of being discriminated against as an American for all things financial” [Peter Spiro/OJ; Sophia Yan, Money] More renounce U.S. citizenship [Yahoo] A Canada-based FATCA resource [Isaac Brock Society] Earlier here, etc. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 10:46 am by Immigration Prof
Biebermania continues in the New York Times Room for Debate, with, among others, Ruben Navarette Jr. and Professors Peter Spiro and Joseph Carens sparring on the issue. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 10:16 am by Immigration Prof
Peter Spiro on Opinio Juris reports on key global threads about citizenship practice and policy in 2013 and how they might spin out in 2014. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 8:15 pm by Walter Olson
” [Liberty Law] Related, Peter Spiro/OJ. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 5:17 am by immigrationprof
PENNumbra, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review's online publication, has a discussion between Professors Peter Spiro (Temple) and Kit Johnson (Oklahoma) on "Immigration Preemption after United States v. [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 12:40 pm by Peter Spiro
by Peter Spiro As a thought experiment, prompted by this week’s experience with Hurricane Sandy: should management of disaster relief migrate to the supranational level? [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 8:27 am by Eugene Volokh
Peter Spiro, one of the leading international law scholars in the country: The deplorable killing of Chris Stevens in Libya suggests a foreign relations law rationale for banning hate speech. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 10:17 am by Peter Spiro
by Peter Spiro The deplorable killing of Chris Stevens in Libya suggests a foreign relations law rationale for banning hate speech. [read post]
8 Sep 2012, 5:00 am by An Hertogen
Julian Ku posted about the strong language in the draft republican platform on protecting American sovereignty and opposing agreements such as UNCLOS, and Peter Spiro doubted whether the idea of citizenship, pressed in Obama’s speech, would stick given the hollow meaning of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship nowadays. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 8:39 pm by Peter Spiro
by Peter Spiro President’s Obama’s speech this evening to the Democratic Convention spun citizenship as a central theme: We believe in something called citizenship – a word at the very heart of our founding, at the very essence of our democracy; the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another, and to future generations. . . . [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 6:00 am by An Hertogen
Peter Spiro posted about the possibility that Honduras may outsource certain appeals procedures to Mauritius, which could ultimately lead to cases with respect to Honduras being decided by the Privy Council, and raised three points about overseas voting and campaign finance in response to Mitt Romney’s visit to the UK. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 7:19 am by Michael McCann
Law Professors Peter Spiro, Ayelet Shachar, Ian Ayres, Jim Nafzinger, and former IOC official Jean-Loup Chappelet all contribute. [read post]