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23 Feb

If you’re interested, I’ll be on C-SPAN Book TV tomorrow, Sunday, February 24, at 1:20 pm, talking about my book, Living With the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order. It runs about half an hour, and though I have no idea whether I’m especially interesting on the program, I very much enjoyed doing it – I thought the interviewer was terrific and asked excellent questions. (Plus, he let me talk pretty much as long as I liked.)...
23.02.13 | |

27 Apr

were preparing for the wars to come. The drafting of these conventions was forward looking rather than backward looking.”  This is an important argument on the processes that shaped the content of the conventions and arguably the book’s main argument and contribution. I nonetheless wonder whether one could read the book as providing a slightly more nuanced take on the meaning of time (past, present future) for its protagonists. I sometimes think of at least some of the thinkers of the postwar era as post-traumatic. Think of the early classic...
27.04.22 | |

17 Jan

I’ve posted on SSRN my recent book review for the American Journal of International Law of Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Olufemi Elias‘ Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties (Eleven International Publishing, 2005). Here’s the abstract: On the surface, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN THE LAW OF TREATIES, by Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Olufemi Elias, makes no overt claims regarding the debate over the fragmentation of international law. Yet on closer examination, I argue in this book review that their work has the potential to make an important contribution to that discourse. In both...
17.01.08 | |

21 Jul

of the pricing flexibility offered by self-publishing. (Notice that the author, not the publisher, gets to decide the appropriate price point for the book). For those interesting in self-publishing ebooks, CNET editor David Carnoy has a nice summary here. You can also self-publish paperback books with print-on-demand (POD) services. Carnoy’s summary of that process is here. BTW, what are the top-selling international relations books on Amazon right now? Two self-published ebooks by journalists, The Hunt for Bin Laden and The Instigators, both short Kindle Single edition books priced at $1.99....
21.07.11 | |

11 Dec

in the face of genocide, crimes against humanity, and/or war crimes, as this author does (and will explore more fully in her upcoming book). Heieck does question the legality of veto use in the face of genocide, and that part of his book, to this author, has the most appeal, as well as his exploration of what is required of states serving on the Security Council to fulfill their duty to “prevent” genocide (p. 209). A minor additional quibble pertains to Heieck’s extensive reliance on US law; again, to craft...
11.12.18 | |

22 May

flourish after Auschwitz, then each of us can be inspired to live a life of purpose, full of meaning and joy. Buergenthal calls us to the better angels of our nature. There are so many rare and amazing stories in this book, and one post cannot do it justice. So if you want to learn more about the book, this weekend C-SPAN will televise a book discussion with Judge Buergenthal airing this Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and this Sunday at 12:00. (See details here). I happened to be in the...
22.05.09 | |

31 Jul

I want to give my sincere thanks to all the participants in the symposium on Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? Many terrific points, questions, and critiques were raised (made?) this week, and I certainly found it a fascinating discussion. My book is an attempt to synthesize and reframe a wide range of issues related to territoriality, and in so doing I necessarily skimmed over, or ignored outright, numerous subsidiary topics of importance. Luckily many of these arose in our discussion this week. Sovereignty, as I note in the book,...
31.07.09 | |

03 Oct

...Gourgourinis argues that the MST, since it applies to all aliens and since it is custom, applies to investors and traders alike. It constitutes a “floor” of treatment and permeates, in his view, the proper administration of justice of domestic regulation vis-à-vis aliens. He does a tremendous job in selecting the norms in the WTO agreements which have MST cores for transparency and procedural justice, e.g. Art. X: 3 GATT or Art. VI GATS, uncovering minimum due process guarantees inherent in those norms. He does the same for norms containing...
03.10.13 | |

07 Sep

...policies, but it at least adds moral ballast to the means they are prepared to contemplate. Of course I am just repeating what I said in my book and in my posts, particularly my first one. Remember my comparing neo-cons to Marxists in terms of both being indifferent to means as they pursue their dreams of universal freedom. Your last post makes it appear that my book is in the nature of a continuation of the Meirsheimer-Waltz book on the Israeli lobby. That is the gravest distortion of all. The...
07.09.08 | |

05 Oct

...here at OJ in an extensive series of posts when it was published in 2009; the other discussion I’ve looked at is Bobby Chesney’s article on targeting Awlaki, but it is focused on international law questions.) Yet that book does not directly take up the Awlaki question, either. In large part, this is because it is a book about the effect of territoriality, and control of territory, on Constitutional application. Written before targeted killing was on the table of public debate, Kal’s book addressed an important, but separate question, the...
05.10.12 | |

27 Jul

Opinio Juris is pleased to be hosting over the next three days a discussion of Professor Kal Raustiala’s new book, “Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law” (OUP 2009). Professor Raustiala is a professor of law at UCLA and also director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. He has written broadly in both international law and international relations, and this outstanding new book reflects his deep engagement in both fields: In this novel history of territoriality in American law and...
27.07.09 | |

27 Jul

I want to join others in congratulating Kal on the publication of his outstanding book. I also want to thank the OJ contributors for inviting me to visit their territory. Issues of spatiality — place, geography, and territory — have been largely under-examined in legal scholarship. This book is an invaluable synthesis and examination of a critical aspect of legal spatiality. One of the most intriguing parts of the evolutionary path Kal charts is the consistently instrumental use of territory to further national goals. I think territorial instrumentalism, in all...
27.07.09 | |