Over the years, I’ve repeatedly had lawyer clients say to me, “I have to serve a defendant in (Country X), but I don’t want to do it through the Hague. That’s just too much hassle.”
Ahem, sorry, I say to them. You don’t have a choice in the matter. But that doesn’t necessarily mean
The Hague, Netherlands. November 10, 2016.
I’m in the small city in Holland that is both the Dutch political capital and the center of global jurisprudence. Home to the International Court of Justice, it is also where some three dozen international agreements—the Hague Conventions—have been formulated to harmonize cross-border legal doctrines in private law
