I wanted to offer one other quick report on last week’s symposium at Pepperdine on the Rookie Year of the Roberts Court. As you might expect, Hamdan featured prominently in the discussion. In essence we saw with Professors Doug Kmiec and Erwin Chemerinsky a tale of two Hamdans. You can view both of their presentations here under...
One of the more interesting parts of the symposium last week at Pepperdine on the Rookie Year of the Roberts Court were the comments of Supreme Court correspondents David Savage, Gina Holland and Marcia Coyle. You can view their comments here. I thought it was quite interesting that Marcia Coyle, Washington Bureau Chief and U.S. Supreme Court Correspondent for...
Professor Ken Anderson has an interesting short piece in the New York Times magazine. He argues that regardless of your political persuasion, there is merit in having counterterrorism policy made through Congressional legislation. Irrespective of where you come down in the debate on the war on terror — including whether it should even be conceived of as a...
It was wonderful to be in Philadelphia to participate in the APSA Roundtable on International Tribunals. The presentations by Allison Danner, Kal Raustiala, Larry Helfer, Jeff Dunoff, Julian Ku, Tom Lee, and Tomer Broude were all superb. I wish each of the speakers had twice as much time. And, of course, drinks at the Continental were a...
My vote for the most important international case for the month of August is Sarei v. Rio Tinto. I have already given you my quick read of the case here. So I have invited one of the leading international environmental law professors to give his take on this important case. Here is what John Knox of Wake...
Student blogger (and budding future law professor and regular Opinio Juris reader) David Schraub has an exclusive two-part interview with Tom Friedman. You can read the interviews over at The Debate Link here and here. Plenty of insights regarding the Middle East, Lebanon, Iraq, the Bush Administration, and the future of "liberal hawks" in the Democratic...
I know that some other international law professors are using this blog as a study aid for their public international law classes. And many of those law professors are using the Dunoff, Ratner and Wippman book, International Law: Norms, Actors, Process. So I wanted to raise a minor issue that came to mind today as I was...
One of our frequent readers asked yesterday why delightful events like the APSA Happy Hour never occur on the West coast. Well, I can't quite promise to duplicate that event, but those in southern California may wish to know that on Wednesday, August 30, my home institution will host a symposium on the "Rookie Year of the Roberts Court"...
One of the issues identified by Tomer Broude in his APSA virtual roundtable introduction is the allocation of rule-determination power between national bodies and international tribunals. He also notes the growing concern of judicial activism by international tribunals, with the WTO Appellate Body as the most notable example. He identifies an emerging international judiciary that represents an international...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave an important speech on Friday regarding global economic integration. It provides one of the best glimpses of the new Fed Chairman's vision of economic globalism. In essence it is a statement of what is old and what is new about the current wave of globalism. It also is a wonderful speech...
Here is a survey that will strike fear in the heart of Tom Friedman. According to a survey released yesterday by Pew Research, Americans put far too little pressure on their kids to do well in school, particularly in comparison to their counterparts in Asia. "Have American parents become too pushy about their kids' education? Many experts seem...
I have a tendency to be skeptical about reports regarding how bad (or good) things are going in Iraq. It is one of those subjects where it seems the messenger's bias often influences the outcome of the message. For example, the Washington Post reported in October 2004 that "at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians may have died because of...
