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The Attempted Impeachment of Selene Bahadoor/Witness 1: What Part of Her...
The highlight of today’s round of witness testimony in the Zimmerman trial appears to have been the defense’s attempted impeachment of Selene Bahadoor — a.k.a., Witness 1, or W01. Her testimony was...
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The Undisputed Facts in the Zimmerman Trial, and the Competing Scenarios of...
The prosecution is wrapping up its case against George Zimmerman today, after presenting nearly forty witnesses in total, and having provided the jury with a fairly comprehensive overview of the...
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Zimmerman’s Statements are the Defense’s Own Worst Enemy
As I discussed in my previous post, there are two plausible scenarios that fit the undisputed evidence in the Zimmerman trial. Zimmerman’s defense is now presenting their case in support of scenario 1:...
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Closing arguments haven’t been made yet, but after
Closing arguments haven’t been made yet, but after the close of Zimmerman’s defense, my prediction is a manslaughter conviction, by a slight margin, with acquittal the next most likely option, and...
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Prudential Considerations, Canons of Construction, and Other Mechanisms of...
In United States v. Windsor, there is one aside from Justica Scalia’s dissent, written in his trademark snarky fashion, which particularly stands out to me. Scalia, describing himself as being “wryly...
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Zimmerman’s Acquittal, and the Coming Civil Suit
George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin — a not wholly surprising result, but by no means an inevitable one. From what one can conclude about the jury’s deliberations, with...
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Armor for the Zombie Apocalypse
As some of you may have noticed, The View From LL2 has been on hiatus for the past few months as a result of some conflicts with its contributors’ other commitments. Although Michael must unfortunately...
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How Corporate Law Invented the Doctrine of Specific Jurisdiction, or Why...
This week, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Daimler AG v. Bauman, holding that a U.S. District Court in California does not have personal jurisdiction over a German corporation to hear a...
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A Timeline of Events Leading up to Timor-Leste’s ICJ Claim Against Australia
Last week, the International Court of Justice heard three days of argument concerning Timor-Leste’s pending request for provisional measures in Questions relating to the Seizure and Detention of...
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The Historical Context of Australia’s Political and Legal Strategy in the...
In 1974, with the prospect of an Indonesian annexation of Timor on the horizon, Australia faced an important question: would Australia receive more favorable access to the gas and oil fields in the...
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How Australia Overplayed Its Hand in the Timor Sea
In 1976, the Australian ambassador to Indonesia wrote that, in deciding whether to support the right of the Timorese people to self-determination or to instead accede to Indonesia’s annexation,...
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Google Earth Map for the Timor Sea Maritime Boundary Dispute
Google Earth is an amazing thing, and it’s hard to understand what’s truly going on in the Timor Sea simply by looking at pictures, so I’ve created a Google Earth collection that shows the coordinates...
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Post-Kiobel, the Lower Courts Are Only Pretending to Apply the Presumption...
In its recently released decision in Al Shimari v. CACI International (4th Cir. 2014), the Fourth Circuit followed a recent trend that has emerged in alien tort statute (“ATS”) cases, post-Kiobel. Like...
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The Presumption Against Extraterritoriality vs. the U.S.’s Jurisdiction Over...
In a 2-1 decision issued last month, the Eleventh Circuit granted Chiquita’s motion to dismiss Cardona v. Chiquita Brands Int’l, Inc., a longstanding ATS case brought by four thousand Colombians...
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Serial: A Comparison of Adnan’s Cell Phone Records and the Witness Statements...
Like everyone else in the world, I’ve been listening to Serial. For those who haven’t listened in yet, Serial is a weekly podcast covering the murder of 18-year-old Hae Min Lee, who was killed on...
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Serial: Why Jay’s Testimony Is Not Credible Evidence of Adnan’s Guilt
In a later post, I plan on expanding further on Adnan’s cell phone records and the related witness testimony, and discussing what we can reconstruct about Hae’s murder from the existing evidence. This...
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Serial: Plotting the Coordinates of Jay’s Dreams
A few days ago, the transcripts were released from Jenn’s recorded police interview (from 3:45 p.m. on February 27, 199), Jay’s first recorded police interview (from 12:30 a.m. on February 28, 1999),...
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Serial: More Details About Jay’s Transcripts Than You Could Possibly Need
Full disclosure: this post is something of a cop-out, since I probably will not have time to write another substantive post until this weekend. But while I already addressed a lot of the oddities in...
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Serial: An Examination of the Prosecution’s Evidence Against Adnan Syed
In previous posts, I’ve dissected both Adnan’s cell phone records and also Jay’s statements to the police and his testimony at trial. This post, rather than focusing on any single piece of the state’s...
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Serial: Why the Nisha Call Shows That Hae Was Murdered at 3:32 p.m.
In my previous posts on Serial, I’ve avoided writing about whether Adnan was responsible for Hae’s murder, and have focused instead on whether the state’s evidence showed that Adnan was responsible for...
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