The letters section of the Times is probably not long for the world but it does still have the function of pulling out pithy representative statements from what would otherwise be lost in the haystack of the paper's website comments section. So here's this from Northwestern University lawprof Steve Calabresi on Adam Liptak's excellent piece from Friday on the flagging international stature of...
The oft-discussed relationship of the United States and International Law will be the theme of this year's International Law Weekend of the American Branch of the International Law Association. The conference will be held October 16-18, 2008, at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 West 44th Street, New York City. The kick-off panel will focus...
A couple of years ago, I examined whether popular conceptions of the current Bush Administration's disdain for treaties had quantitative support. I found to my surprise that the Bush Administration did not appear to be concluding significantly fewer treaties (whether solely pursuant to Article II or to all forms of U.S. agreement-making combined). Looking just at Article II treaty activity in...
I want to follow up Roger's post on law professor sign on amicus briefs with a really basic, genuinely naive question. I am not a litigator and do not know very much about litigation. I have never really understood the rationale behind courts accepting amicus briefs - law professor briefs, or any other kind. I'm not putting this as a...
I'm up for tenure this year, which helps explain (I hope) in part my lighter-than-usual blogging of late. One of the things that has come up in the process is how my home institution (Temple) compares to other law schools in terms of the timing at which tenure and promotion are offered. Temple hires folks starting out in law teaching as...
My law school (Washington College of Law, American University), the ABA national security committee of the international law section, and the Federalist Society are putting on a one-day conference on Friday, September 19, from 10-4 pm, in DC, in case anyone is interested. I unfortunately will not be there, though I am still listed on the program, but it has...
Over at the New York Times opinion page (but alas behind The Wall), Philip Bobbitt and John Danforth argue that with respect to national security, neither campaign has articulated the fundamental points of view that will allow people to make an informed choice in November ...
The legal blogosphere is all abuzz about a new study of faculty productivity at law schools outside the US News top 50. Here, according to the study, are the top 10: San Diego, Cardozo, Florida State, Richmond, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago-Kent, Missouri, UNLV, and Brooklyn. Some bloggers -- see here and here, for example -- think the study is a useful gauge...
In my original post, I recommended a number steps that Israel should take in order to contain the increasing terror activities emerging from East Jerusalem. I would like now to illuminate some of these. As noted in the original post, during the last seven years, the levels of terror activity in East Jerusalem have been significantly lower than those in the...
Professor Elena Baylis hosted a really terrific workshop on socio-legal approaches to international law at the University of Pittsburgh last week. Elena has a blog post up at Intlawgrrls that explains how the workshop came to be. As one of the law professors in a group that was split evenly between anthropologists and legal scholars, I learned a lot about...
On March 6, 2008, a Palestinian resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jebel Mukabber entered an Israeli religious seminary in West Jerusalem and opened fire on students with an automatic weapon, killing 7 (all but one under the age of 17) and injuring many more. On July 2, 2008, a Palestinian resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur...
Opinio Juris is pleased to welcome Daniel Seidemann as a guest blogger this week to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the future of Jerusalem. Daniel is the founder and legal advisor for Ir Amim, a non-profit, non-partisan association dedicated to an equitable, stable and sustainable Jerusalem. Ir Amim (“City of Nations” or “City of Peoples”) was founded in...
