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11 Mar

The third panel of the Young Scholars Conference presented student scholarship that applies the lessons of the New Haven School to current international legal problems. The student presenters offered empirical analyses of contemporary phenomena ranging from Geneva Convention compliance to the WTO Dispute Resolution Mechanism, with responses from moderators Paul Dubinsky, Noah Novogrodsky and Beth Van Schaack. Within...

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11 Mar

The second panel of the Yale Young Scholars Conference gave four professors the opportunity to share their reflections on the New Haven School and its application to a range of international legal problems. REBECCA BRATSPIES Rebecca Bratspies of the City University of New York presented her paper, Rethinking Decisionmaking in International Environmental Law: A Process-Oriented Approach to Sustainable Development. Bratspies...

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11 Mar

Seeking to examine historical perspectives on the New Haven School, the first panel of the Young Scholars Conference was a dialogue between two generations of international law scholars. In his opening remarks, moderator Michael Reisman cautioned scholars against consigning to history the set of tools employed in the New Haven School, finding a continued utility and intellectual value in...

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11 Mar

During the 1790s, the Supreme Court decided numerous cases involving Article 17 of the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France. These cases all arose in the context of an ongoing naval war that pitted France against England and Spain. France commissioned several privateers to attack British and Spanish merchant ships. The French privateers brought captured...

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11 Mar

As I pointed out last week, there was an odd disconnect between the International Court of Justice's finding that Serbia did not commit genocide against Bosnia and judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia finding responsibility for genocide at the highest levels of the Serbia/Yugoslavia government. The IWPR, which has great coverage of this issue, further...

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10 Mar

As covered last week in Chris Borgen’s post titled, Conference on the "New" New Haven School, the Yale Journal of International Law (YJIL) is pleased to announce its fifth annual Young Scholars Conference, which will take place this Saturday, March 10, at YLS. The Conference's theme is "The 'New' New Haven School: International Law: Past, Present & Future." A generation...

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09 Mar

The Tenth Circuit last week rendered a nice little opinion addressing the relationship between terrorism, free speech, and security zones at inter-governmental conferences. The gist of the argument in Citizens for Peace in Space v. City of Colorado Springs is that free speech rights diminish as government interests in security are heightened. Translation: protesters' rights are going...

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09 Mar

In Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, the Supreme Court engaged in a practice that, sadly, is becoming increasingly common in cases where an individual litigant raises a claim or defense on the basis of a treaty. The Court ignored the relevant constitutional text. Despite the fact that the text of the Supremacy Clause explicitly addresses a central issue in the...

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08 Mar

I just published at Huffington Post my last post on the UCLA nuclear threats conference entitled, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Preemptive Strikes. Here is an excerpt: [T]here were a few who did suggest the appropriateness of preemptive strikes. Berkeley political scientist Bob Powell said that defense and deterrence were synonymous and that the real question...

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08 Mar

It's not international law, strictly speaking, but I rarely get to defend Bush's executive power so I'm making an exception. A very prominent liberal blogger suggested today that Bush would violate the Rules Governing Petitions for Executive Clemency if he pardoned Scooter Libby anytime soon:[Y]esterday, when Tony Snow was asked about the possibility, he refused to rule a pardon...

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08 Mar

Please join me in welcoming ITER (Latin for “the way”) as the likely newest entrant to the roster of international organizations (IOs). Signed in Paris on November 21 of last year, ITER is the creation of EURATOM, Japan, China, India, South Korea, Russian and the United States. Its mission gives reality to what had previously been thought of...

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