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26 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: Writing Science Fiction
...what I thought everyone needs to get through their everyday struggles. My reference to Miyazaki in the epilogue of my book was not a historically contemporaneous one like the other, but reflected the fact that I was watching and reading a lot about Miyazaki as a way to take a break from my book. It was also a future oriented gesture pointing to where I wanted my work to go after the book. Buried in the second part of a long pedantic documentary about Miyazaki’s daily routine making Princess Mononoke...27 Jul Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law
...tension between America’s constitutional traditions and its global ambitions. Throughout this book I pay close attention to the international context, particularly to the changing global role of the U.S. In this sense the book is an example of what political scientists call “2nd image-reversed” analysis: I look carefully at how the international system shaped the content and direction of domestic law. As a weak power, the U.S. showed considerable solicitude for traditional Westphalian principles. As a superpower, it was far more willing to bend and even break established doctrine in...11 Mar Bradley Book Symposium: The Scope of the Treaty Power
...as held by any sovereign in any other society.” After the other two cabinet members expressed views more in line with Hamilton than Jefferson, Washington urged them all to reach a consensus. “He seemed to direct those efforts more towards me,” Jefferson recorded dryly, “but the thing could not be done.” Fast-forward to today – and we are still far from consensus on the exact contours of the treaty power in our constitutional system. In a chapter on treaties in his excellent new book, International Law in the U.S. Legal...05 Jul The Arms Treaty Negotiations and the Problems of Consensus for a Hegemonic Player
...the night, theirs will sail safely to port and the others will sink into the inky blackness. I think they will simply sail to different ports – and then start bickering. (I don’t discuss the arms treaty negotiations specifically in my book on US-UN relations, Living With the UN: US Responsibilities and International Order, but Chapter 2 has a detailed discussion of the problems of consensus negotiations under conditions of “parallel” hegemony. Chapter 2 is available as part of a preview of the book, downloadable as a pdf from SSRN.)...01 Aug Opinio Juris Symposium: “The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs”
Opinio Juris is proud to host an online symposium on Michael Ramsey’s new book The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs recently published by Harvard University Press. We are especially pleased to have Professor Ramsey with us to discuss his book because it is, in my humble opinion, the most important monograph on U.S. foreign relations law in the past decade (one might even say, without hyperbole, that it is the most important U.S. foreign relations book of this century!). Not since Professor Louis Henkin’s seminal treatise, Foreign Affairs and the...12 Mar Bradley Book Symposium: Kristina Daugirdas on Delegations to International Institutions
[Kristina Daugirdas is Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan Law] I’m delighted to have the opportunity to comment on Professor Curt Bradley’s excellent new book. Before getting to the question of how the decisions and orders of international institutions are integrated into U.S. law—Professor Bradley’s main focus in this chapter—it’s worth pausing to consider why states bother to create international institutions at all. States could have drafted a series of treaties that simply codified substantive obligations relating to various issue areas. Instead, they created institutions and delegated authority to them...17 Oct Book Discussion Informal International Lawmaking: Legal Nature and Impact
[Ramses Wessel is Professor of the Law of the European Union and other International Organizations at the University of Twente] In Part II we focus on the legal nature of informal international lawmaking. Perhaps ironically the question of whether IN-LAW should be perceived as forming part of the ‘legal universe’ is one of the most prominent ones addressed in this book. The project started off under the working title ‘Informal International Public Policy-Making’. However, on the basis of the empirical analysis we found that it is quite often difficult not...