Anthony Clark Arend

The previous post noted the brief filed by the Obama Administration appealing the ruling of Judge John D. Bates in the Bagram detainee cases. With many thanks to SCOTUSblog, the brief can be found here. As Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog explains:
The Obama Administration argued strenuously on Monday that the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision providing a right for imprisoned terrorism suspects …

The AP is reporting this evening:
The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country.Although the Pentagon is giving the roughly 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield a new chance to challenge their detentions, the Obama administration stuck with Bush administration policy …

American University Professor David Bosco has a very thoughtful op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post in the wake of President Obama’s upcoming visit to the United Nations in a few days. As has been widely reported, Obama will be chairing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on non-proliferation issues. Bosco urges the Obama Administration to approach the United Nations …

In case you missed this. the Washington Post reports:
A federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit Friday against CACI International that accused the firm’s employees of taking part in the torture and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In a 2 to 1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed the case …

PROGRAM ON NONPROLIFERATION POLICY AND LAW
The Georgetown University Institute for International Law & Politics
and
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Invite you to a Book Review Event to discuss:
International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass
Destruction
(Oxford University Press, 2009)
By Dr. Daniel H. Joyner
Associate Professor, University of Alabama School of Law

In Addition to the Author, the Following Reviewers will Discuss the …

The American Society of International Law, the Constitution Project, and the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law invite you to attend a special event on
Constitution Day
September 17, 2009
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall – Hart Auditorium
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
RSVP to rsvp@constitutionproject.org

Presentation of the Constitution Project’s 2009 Constitutional Commentary Award

Honoring Michael …

In case you missed it, Jurist reports:
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) [official website] announced [press release] Tuesday that a group of 91 countries have reached an agreement on the final text of the first ever treaty [text, PDF] to combat illegal fishing. The Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) …