Using TLB to Teach Civil Procedure (2026 update)
As the fall semester gets underway, we are updating our posts on using resources on TLB to teach various classes. This post gathers materials that can complement a standard civil procedure course, whether by providing concise overviews of doctrines, distilling Supreme Court developments, or suggesting recent cases that can spark discussions of perennial procedural issues….
Continue ReadingNew Essay on Anti-Enforcement Injunctions
In a symposium issue honoring Linda Silberman, the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics has just published an essay that Ralf Michaels and I wrote on anti-enforcement injunctions. In the United States, the best-known example of this type of order is the one entered by the Southern District of New York in the infamous…
Continue ReadingUpdate on Cassirer
Last year, the Supreme Court decided Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, a case about choice of law under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). This post gives a quick update on what has happened since, and where things are going next. Cassirer is a lawsuit about the ownership of a Camille Pissarro painting, surrendered by…
Continue ReadingThrowback Thursday: Federal Rule 44.1
For this installment of Throwback Thursday, we are going back to the year 1966. In that year, the Supreme Court adopted important changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure governing class actions, amendments that have garnered substantial commentary ever since. This post addresses a less-heralded change, the introduction of Federal Rule 44.1 governing foreign…
Continue ReadingUsing TLB to Teach Civil Procedure
August invariably brings not only heat and humidity (to Nashville, anyway) but also…. the first civil procedure classes. And, more pressingly, the need for a syllabus. This post continues TLB’s series on using the blog to teach law school classes. An earlier post discussed using TLB to Teach Transnational Litigation and there are more to…
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