Matt Slovin
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.
Cisco’s Real Stakes: Digitally Aiding and Abetting
This post is cross-published at Just Security. On April 28, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Cisco Systems v. Doe I et al. (Cisco), which asks whether a private U.S. company can ever be sued under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS)—and its CEO sued under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) (1992)—for aiding and…
Continue ReadingImmunity, Consent, and Arbitration Treaties
If a state agrees to arbitrate a dispute with a private party – through, for example, the operation of a bilateral investment treaty – and then loses the arbitration, has it waived its immunity in a suit to enforce the resulting judgment if it is a party to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement…
Continue ReadingA Tangled Mess in New Hampshire
Characterization plays an important role in conflict of laws. When the choice-of-law rules for contracts are different than the choice-of-law rules for property, a court’s decision to characterize an issue as sounding in “contract” or “property” will inevitably affect which jurisdiction’s law is applied. The New Hampshire Supreme Court grappled with the issue of characterization—though…
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