For those of you who are interested in the case Monasky v. Taglieri currently before the US Supreme Court, please note that an extremely useful amicus curiae brief was filed

this week by Reunite International Child Abduction Centre (as stated on its website Reunite is the “leading UK charity specialising in parental child abduction [...]

This just in, via Bloomberg News.  Here's the order.  I'll  be back soon with more. Update:  It's a short order, so what follows is the operative part.  The panel consisted

of Judges Tashima, M. Smith, and Bennett, and the order is per curiam. [...]

I am thrilled that so many people already have expressed interest in participating in the Theory-of-Change Symposium described in recent posts.  So far, 26 people said that

they will write a piece and 10 more people are considering doing so.  I expect that others will participate as well. [...]

Every year I do my best to keep track of faculty moves and the like and post them here to spread the news.  We’re light on moves again this year, but we have several interesting

interim appointments.  As I say every year, it’s entirely possible that I’m missing something that should be on the list.  … Continue reading Comings, Goings, [...]

Readers interested in comparative patent remedies, and comparative patent law more generally, may want to take a look at a new edited volume titled Japanese Patent Law: 

Cases and Comments (Christopher Heath & Atsuhiro Furuta eds., Wolters Kluwer 2019).  The volume is part of the Max Planck Series on Asian Intellectual Property [...]

Ms Ana Koprivica Harvey (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law) recently posted a new paper in the MPILux Research Paper

Series, titled Non-Party Access to Court Documents and the Open Justice Principle: The UK Supreme Court Judgment in Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring. [...]

Steve Goldberg, Nancy Rogers, and I recently finished the Seventh Edition of Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration and Other Processes. In the course of our

revision, we identified several questions that we thought may have significance in the dispute resolution field. [...]

I am pleased to announce that Edward Elgar Publishing will publish the two-volume Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law on August 30.  Volume 1,

titled "Theory," is edited by Ben Depoorter and Peter Menell; Volume 2, titled "Analytical Methods," is edited by Menell, Depoorter, and David Schwartz.  John  [...]

The upcoming issue of the Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (German Journal of Comparative Law; Vol. 118 [2019], No. 3) features the following contributions:

40 Years Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – Even More Important Today than 40 Years Ago to Encourage Trade? [...]