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21 Jan Does President Obama Need Congress to Lift the Embargo on Cuba? Yes.
am not Cuba sanctions law expert, so it is possible I am missing something. Since the bulk of the Cuba sanctions are found in regulations issued by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control pursuant to the Trading with the Enemy Act, it would seem like President Obama could indeed lift those sanctions by simply withdrawing those regulations. The TWEA has never been read to require sanctions, and President Carter lifted similar sanctions on China without Congress in 1979. On the other hand, Congress has also enacted two Cuba-specific...18 Jun Sanctioning the ICC: A Guide to U.S. Law (Part I)
they are in the sanctions crosshairs. This post will discuss the various parts of the executive order announcing the sanctions, and the law on which it based. A second post to follow will address some additional ramifications of the order and what to expect going forward. The Operative Law The law that President Trump invoked to establish the sanctions program is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). IEEPA is one of over 136 emergency powers that Congress has delegated to the President over the years, and as such it...14 Jul Those “Snap-Back” Sanctions in the Iran Deal Have a Pretty Big Loophole
dealing with the Iranians ( among others ) while bypassing restrictions and sanctions imposed by US , and the result, a fine of not less than: 9 billion dollars.... ( see link ) So, you are right, maybe it wouldn't be the same, but only maybe, since, even here, with Iran , the Americans , didn't exhibit yet , their full range of capacity in this regard . Link : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-30/bnp-paribas-charged-in-sanctions-violation-probe-in-new-york Thanks Benjamin Davis In the long game, I would suspect that states could impose new sanctions outside of the...22 Jan Does President Obama Need Congress’s Approval to Sign a Nuclear Deal with Iran? Can Congress Force Him to Get Their Approval?
there is the same kind of Article II tradition in this area. The closest analogy I can come up with off the top of my head is the normalization of relations with China in 1979, which lifted sanctions, but did not involve a comprehensive Article II treaty. On the other hand, the sanctions regime for Iran is enormously complex and much more extensive than the pre-1979 China sanctions. Many of the Iran sanctions may not be waiveable by the President, and the new sanctions bill will certainly make most of...
05 Nov The Power and Responsibility of the EU to Protect the ICC from US Sanctions
will reveal the actual values of the states who as a matter of law are pledged to combat atrocity and impunity. There have been some responses to the sanctions so far, and it is hard to know what is happening beyond the scenes. A 22 August 2025 letter from civil society lists reasons why the sanctions against ICC Judges and Deputy Prosecutors and previous sanctions are objectionable and collect responses from civil society, States Parties, the EU, and the UN. The European Parliament’s response is of particular note, calling on...
19 Apr ICC Sanctions Symposium: Sanctions Gone, But Don’t Celebrate Too Quickly!
[Oumar Ba is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Morehouse College .] On 2 April 2021, President Biden rescinded the sanctions that the Trump administration had imposed on Fatou Bensouda and Phakiso Mochochoko – the two most senior African officials in the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor. These sanctions were preceded by visa restrictions on ICC personnel in 2019 and a visa ban on Bensouda. Sanction regimes have operated as a powerful tool at the hands of western states and international institutions to bend other states (from the Global...
26 Feb Time for the US to Reset Its Policy on the ICC & Reassume Leadership in International Justice
groups, and academic institutions. Threatening officers of a judicial institution with sanctions and then imposing them is no way for a country that abides by the rule of law to deal with Court officials pursuing their mandates. Imposition of sanctions has also come at a reputational cost. The sanctions created the optics of the US attempting to derail the ICC’s work—and desperate enough to employ thuggish tactics to achieve that end. The sanctions are also anathema to the views of almost all major US allies, who are parties to the ICC’s Rome Statute and supporters of...21 Dec LJIL Symposium: Response to Samantha Besson
extraterritorial regulation’s effect on democratic participation, it’s a good idea to specify which theory of democracy underpins it. I also think that connecting extraterritorial regulation and democratic theory is tempting, but problematic. If we want to understand the causes and consequences of extraterritorial regulation, it’s useful to formulate structured case-studies. At least, they will give us an idea about the politics of extraterritorial regulation. Prof. Milanovich claims that, for better or worse, politics cannot be expunged from the inquiries aimed at understanding extraterritoriality. The interesting part is to explain why....24 Jun Just Call him Antonin Scalia: Anti-Imperialist (in the Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Laws)
Kagan). There is a lot to ponder in this case, which touches on questions of statutory interpretation, federal securities law, and the extraterritorial scope of U.S. statutes. For me, though, the key holding is that, yes, there really is a hard presumption against the extraterritorial application of U.S. laws that requires a very clear statement by Congress to be overcome. As Justice Scalia writes: The results of judicial-speculation-made-law—divining what Congress would have wanted if it had thought of the situation before the court—demonstrate the wisdom of the presumption against extraterritoriality....