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18 - 10 - 2010

The latest on the hypothetical draft for the NYC: from Dublin to Miami: The Miami Draft as interpretation tool for the NYC.

In Dublin, the Hypothetical Draft for the NYC was received with suspicion: was this merely a way to avoid writing the 2nd edition of the Treatise on the NYC?

Perhaps a new Convention is indeed unrealistic. However, the Miami Draft is a good interpretation tool for how to read the NYC: the Miami Draft serves as a manual of "best interpretive practices" intended to remedy ambiguities and judicial disharmony. It is like a magical mirror that offers a face-lift without surgery, gently reworking the defects that decades of use have revealed in the old syntax.