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In a previous post, I noted a recent article in the New York Times on Somali piracy. From my perspective, the article presented an incorrect characterization of international law dealing with piracy. Following the post, I received a note from a former student, Christine Detz, herself a former journalist, and suggested that she write a post. To my great pleasure, …

Evgeny Morozov is the Yahoo! International Values, Communication, Technology, and Global Internet Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University.  Andres Martinez is the Director of the  Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program at the New America Foundation

Over the past year or so, there has been a great deal of press coverage of piracy off the coast of Somalia. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported:
Two Somali men were arraigned on kidnapping charges in a Spanish court on Tuesday in a case that underscores the legal ambiguity of trying people suspected of piracy in international waters. The …

The text of Secretary Clinton’s remarks follows:
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon. I want to start by thanking Minister Lavrov for hosting me in Moscow today, along with my delegation. We have had a very productive and comprehensive set of discussions. This follows on the work that we began over the last many months to transform the relationship between our two …

My dear friend (for almost 40 years!), Steve Bainbridge, has written much in the area of economics. And he is one of the world’s leading experts on law and economics as it relates to public corporations. Today he offers his take on the announcement this morning of the recipients of Nobel Prize in Economics. He notes:
The 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize …

Dr. Rice delivered these remarks at Howard University on October 8, 2000 at the Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr. Annual Lecture.  Here is the text as delivered:
Good afternoon every one. Thank you very much for that kind introduction. It’s great to be here with Howard students, faculty, and alumni. I see family members, dear, dear friends who are in effect family …

My friend and colleague, Professor Marilyn McMorrow, has written extensively on the Nobel Peace Prize and in 2000 received a Nobel Institute Fellowship. I asked her if she’d be willing to write a post on the selection of Barack Obama for the Prize. To my great pleasure, she agreed. Her post follows.
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When the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced …

Like many I was quite surprised to learn that President Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. As has been widely reported, two previous sitting presidents of the United States have received the Prize. First, Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906 for his work in negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth that settled the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. …