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Pamela Bookman

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Assoc dean & law professor @ Fordham Law School.

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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I'm honored to participate in this inaugural issue of the journal. For more on this topic, see my article, Default Procedures, in the @pennlaw.bsky.social U. Penn. Law Review papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Default Procedures
<p>In vast numbers of debt-collection cases, defendants never appear. Courts then routinely issue default judgments, often rubber stamping complaints with littl
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Check out Winning by Default, my contribution to the first @statesforum.bsky.social journal -- about how state civil courts hearing so many debt collection and housing cases can adapt to function without defendants, without lawyers, and ultimately, without courts. statesforum.org/journal/issu...
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Winning By Default - The States Forum
State civil courts are the backstop of American justice, handling 98% of civil cases filed in the United States. Their dockets are filled with the everyday
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KProfsBlog @kprofsblog.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Just in time for the new semester, @guyrub.bsky.social, Ethan Leib, @pamelabookman.bsky.social, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social, Tal Kastner, & @jakelinford.bsky.social have made available a new open-source contracts casebook. lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractspro...
Scales of Justice
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Guy Rub @guyrub.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My co-authors (@jakelinford.bsky.social, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social, @pamelabookman.bsky.social, Ethan Leib, & Tal Kastner) and I are excited to share a new project: an open-source, free, customizable & modular contract law casebook. Check it out! lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractspro... ‪
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ContractsProf Blog: Guest Post: A New Open-Source Casebook
Introducing the Contracts Open-Source Casebook Project Guy A. Rub & Ethan J. Leib Guy Rub We’re excited to release a project we’ve been working on (with our co-authors: Matthew Bodie, Pamela Bookman, ...
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Harlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Looking to make sense of our world of sanctions and economic statecraft? (Yeah, me too!) Next Friday, February 21 at @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social, the Fordham International Law Journal symposium on Economic Sanctions: go.activecalendar.com/FordhamUnive...
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The Fordham International Law Journal Spring Symposium : Economic Sanctions and the Law: Goals, Enforcement, and Procedural and Substantive Limits
The Fordham International Law Journal Spring Symposium : Economic Sanctions and the Law: Goals, Enforcement, and Procedural and Substantive Limits
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Which states? It's bonkers because it makes it really hard for alleged debtors to understand what the underlying debt might have been, whether they paid it, whether it's fraud, etc. It's not bonkers in that I'm not surprised to learn this might be the case in terms of party in interest law.
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Could go well with the $10-million-minimum-amount-in-controversy business division. www.huntonak.com/insights/leg...
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The Texas Business Court: The First 100 Days
53 cases have been filed in the Business Court to date.
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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Great public service here by @aratojulian.bsky.social for those of us getting going under another sky....
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Julian Arato @aratojulian.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Must follow account 👇
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Julian Arato @aratojulian.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
go.bsky.app/DVWzYxf Work in progress
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
And, indeed, Musk’s action has not remained in federal court. Judge Pappert makes swift and nearly disdainful work of Musk’s attempts to grasp at federal jurisdiction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
If Not Here, Where?: Transnational Litigation against US Tech Giants Around the World, NYU JILP 2024 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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IF NOT HERE, WHERE?: TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION AGAINST U.S. TECH GIANTS AROUND THE WORLD
In recent suits around the world against U.S. tech giants-e.g., litigation in Canada against Twitter (now X), in Kenya against Facebook, and in Europe against G
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
When I wrote about how US tech giants should be wary of pushing litigation out of US courts bc they might instead be sued elsewhere under less favorable legal regimes, I confess I did not see this *decillion*-dollar Russian judgment coming www.google.com/amp/s/www.nb...
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Russian court fines Google $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 for blocking YouTube content
A Russian court fined Alphabet's Google $2 decillion, a 34-figure number, for blocking YouTube channels and content served up by the country.
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Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
I've posted my short article, "Evidence of Compliance," written for the Clifford Symposium. It asks, should evidence of compliance with regulatory safety standards be admissible to show absence of a design defect? I could still tweak, so comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Evidence of Compliance
In a products liability case, should evidence of compliance with regulatory safety standards be admissible to show absence of a design defect? The longstan
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #368,696! Not too shabby ...
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
I am here for your baseball content.
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
@johnpfaff.bsky.social @bennettcapers.bsky.social @maggiewittlin.bsky.social
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
This is fun trivia! Check it out!
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
I'm adding a cite to this too!
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
Fascinating study of the many fed ct cases resolved w/out adjudication. Cf. state courts, where so many cases are resolved by default judgment. (See Default Procedures papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) The state and fed ct trends raise similar vexing Qs abt what US cts do and what they should do.
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Default Procedures
In vast numbers of debt collection cases, defendants never appear. Courts then routinely issue default judgments, often rubber-stamping complaints with little o
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
The 500 Shirts of Steve Bannon, by Dr Seuss
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr Seuss
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Thanks to Robin Effron for a generous JOTWELL post on my article, Default Procedures, forthcoming in U. Penn. L. Rev. (2025). It's about default judgments in state ct debt collection cases -- comments welcome!
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The Pendulum Swings of Access to Justice - Courts Law
Pamela K. Bookman, Default Procedures, ___ U. Pa. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming, 2025), available at SSRN.Robin J. EffronTheories of procedural justice have long contained explicit and implicit assumptions...
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Carla Sofia Ferreira (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social), with one of my favorite poems of all time
TODAY. MY STUDENTS TELL ME
Today, my students tell me that I look like someone who never drives a car, that I look like I am someone who takes a train everywhere, and I love that they see me like this, the same way that I love that one day, a student asks me, do you buy your clothes on english teacher dot com?, when the truth is, I would if such a place existed. Another day, a student tells me that I seem like the kind of person who is good at tending plants, that I seem exactly like someone who would care for dying plants and maybe even heal them, only I am the one adding maybe, because they said it with such conviction and another student agreed with them like this was simple and true, and I laughed, told them they were wrong, that I wish I were more like my grandmother, who was in fact a tender of gardens and all green things and what I don't tell my students is that I am so bad at taking care of anything including myself [plz let Tom know if you need the full alt text! out of room]
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OGEL & TDM Law Journals @ogeltdm.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
📰 Dutch Supreme Court throws out the Russian Federation's last appeal against seizure of iconic Russian vodka brands by the former Yukos shareholders "This ruling of the Supreme Court paves the way for the sale of the Russian Federation's assets in satisfaction of the arbitral awards ," ...
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OGEL & TDM Law Journals @ogeltdm.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
👉 Young-OGEMID Seminar "Int'l Arbitration and Int'l Commercial Courts: Competitive or Complementary? (21 - 30 March 2022)" - panelists: Xandra Kramer, Andrew Godwin, Alyssa King, @pamelabookman.bsky.social -- Report: www.transnational-dispute-management.com/young-ogemid...
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Symposia and Reports - Young-OGEMID | TDM Journal
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
We've also written about international commercial courts' role in influencing and developing international commercial law -- which the SICC is well poised to do.
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Transnational Dispute Resolution, International Commercial Courts, and the Future of International Commercial Law
This essay provided the concluding chapter for Transnational Commercial Disputes in an Age of Globalism and Pandemic (Sundaresh Menon and Anselmo Reyes, eds.) (
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
@alyssaesking.bsky.social and I have written about the phenomenon of foreign judges traveling to sit on the commercial courts of foreign jurisdictions -- like the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC)
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Traveling Judges
Around the world, domestic courts focused on commercial disputes hire foreign judges. The practice seems to resemble arbitration, but is also rooted in colonial
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
I've written about "The Adjudication Business" for international commercial disputes here (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
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The Adjudication Business
The recent proliferation of international commercial courts around the world is changing the global business of adjudication. The rise of these courts also chal
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
This is a super interesting development in the realm of international commercial courts -- domestic courts focused on intl comm disputes -- which have stretched and challenged traditional boundaries est'd by conventional concepts of sovereignty and jurisdiction.
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
Singapore and Bahrain just agreed to set up an appeal mechanism from the new Bahrain International Commercial Court  to the Singapore International Commercial Court. Minister Shanmugam: "This collaboration can advance our shared interests.”
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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
You usually like to withdraw meritless claims before you have to file something like this in court. A nice practice tip for you.
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Harlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Honored to have my article, "Best Practices for Trade-Security Measures," published amongst such an amazing group of authors and articles in the latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/jiel/article... 1/
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Toward best practices for trade-security measures
Abstract. The global economy is increasingly being weaponized. Citing security concerns from traditional defence to economic competitiveness, health emergency,
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Pamela Bookman @pamelabookman.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I broke my social media ban to come here and applaud this high quality content. Thank you for your support (and help reaching high shelves).
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Ben Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Hey LawSky! Join the ASIL Economic Law Interest Group on Zoom, Friday, Sept. 8, at 1:30 Eastern, for an Authors' Roundtable on Sanctions and Economic Statecraft. Featuring Christine Abely, Mona Ali, Daniel McDowell & Nicholas Mulder. Register here: www.asil.org/event/author...
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
⚖️New frontiers in forum shopping. Create a front organization in the jurisdiction you prefer. www.wsj.com/articles/private-equity…
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