Matt Slovin

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Matt Slovin is an Ohio municipal attorney. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in 2014 and from Harvard Law School in 2019. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a sports reporter for The (Nashville) Tennessean.

Posts by Matt Slovin

One Century of Arbitration in the United States: Call for Papers

To celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the Federal Arbitration Act, Transnational Dispute Management(TDM) is publishing a special issue, “One Century of Arbitration in the United States: The Federal Arbitration Act at Home and Abroad,” edited by Professor Björn Arp and Professor Kiran Nasir Gore. Proposals may be submitted to info@transnational-dispute-management.com and will be reviewed…

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Recent Scholarship on Sovereign Immunity from Executive Measures

Immunity protects the assets of foreign sovereigns from the jurisdiction of domestic courts.  Customary international law requires such immunity, which is also conferred in the United States by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). An important question about sovereign immunity is whether it also protects the assets of foreign sovereigns from executive branch or administrative…

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The Personal Jurisdiction Case With Everything

In one of my favorite moves, The Princess Bride, the grandfather describes the story as having everything: “Fencing! Fighting! Revenge! Giants! Chases! Escapes! True love! Miracles!” This scene popped into my head when I was reading a recent decision by the Court of Appeals of Texas (Fourteenth District). That opinion, Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London…

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