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Memorial Day Photos

by Roger Alford

Unknown Soldier…

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Posts of Interest

January 7, 2009
Should International Law Professors Attend AALS?
I’m here at the AALS annual meeting enjoying the beautiful surroundings of San Diego. The Malibu winters are brutal and therefore the chance to flee one part of glorious southern California for another part of glorious southern California is most welcome.

January 6, 2009
Detain, Deport, or Prosecute al-Marri?
The New York Times has a thoughtful piece by Adam Liptak this weekend on the Obama Administration’s difficult choice in its forthcoming brief in the Supreme Court case of al-Marri v. Pucciarelli.

January 3, 2009
Dershowitz on Israel and Proportionality
Alan Dershowitz published an editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that argues Israel's attacks on Hamas in Gaza are "perfectly proportionate. " I have no desire to argue the substance of that point, in part because views on Israel and Palestine are largely impervious to facts or argument (on both sides), but largely because the concept of proportionality is so amorphous and ill-defined as to be essentially useless.

January 2, 2009
The End of the United States - Coming in 2010
OK, I know the blogosphere has chewed over this article from the Wall Street Journal, and spit it out already, but I still can't resist posting this WSJ graphic describing a Russian professor's prediction about the end of the Union sometime in the middle of Obama's first term (in which case he would be the reverse-Lincoln). I can see disunion in the future, but not quite along the lines here.

January 2, 2009
"Catch and Release" Anti-Piracy Policies
The Somali piracy problem is not really a military one. No one doubts that the world's modern navies can overwhelm any pirates they find.