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Inaugural ASIL Research Forum: A New Tradition in International Law

Congratulations to Kal Raustiala and Laura Dickinson, the masterminds who conceived and carried out the first Research Forum sponsored by the American Society of International Law.  The forum took place this past weekend in Los Angeles, together with the ASIL Mid-Year Meeting, which ASIL President David Caron has successfully moved out of Washington and out among broader constituencies of international...

M.B.Z. v. Clinton: Getting to the Merits on the Recognition Power

Robert Reinstein is Clifford Scott Green Professor of Law at Temple University Law School and the author of Executive Power and the Law of Nations in the Washington Administration, which addresses the early history of the recognition power. M.B.Z. v. Clinton is the first case in which there is an apparent conflict between an act of Congress and the President’s authority...

Inside Executive Branch Policy Discussions on Drone Strikes

International Politics and the Nuremberg Military Trials

Kevin Heller’s magisterial survey of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals offers the first comprehensive account of the trials, as well as an insightful analysis of the tribunals’ jurisprudence and legal basis. Heller is an international lawyer of considerable insight and his assessment of the trials is always judicious, frequently thought provoking, and, even if some scholars may quibble with this or...

Salvaging the Charming Betsy in ATS Cases: A Response to Rio Tinto

There is much to be analyzed in the Ninth Circuit's en banc decision in Sarei v. Rio Tinto. I am exercising a guest blogging privilege to address two aspects: its holding regarding the nature of the cause of action (and implicitly, the remedy) available under the ATS, and, the consequences of that holding to a proper understanding of the extension of that remedy...

Hello World to Eutopialaw blog

I have been raising various queries about the eurozone crisis and European governance - without making any claim to being an EU law scholar.  University of Connecticut's Peter Lindseth is just that, however, and points us to a relatively new blog, Eutopialaw.com, where he and a number of other experts post regularly on these topics.  I commend it to everyone,...

Congress as Foreign Relations Actor (Pathological Strain)

On top of everything else, Congress now threatens to severely restrict official contacts with Iran.  This from Heather Hurlburt at Democracy Arsenal: If you're too transfixed by the prospect of the US losing its seat on the IAEA board of governors, losing Japanese funding through UNESCO for police training in Afghanistan, and potentially losing global patent protection, all...

The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and Contemporary International Criminal Law

This is a terrific book which ploughs much virgin territory. The dust jacket blurb describes it accurately as providing the “first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military tribunals (NMTs).” It is not the only material on the topic...