Anthony Clark Arend

As previously posted, on September 16, 2009, the The Georgetown University Institute for International Law & Politics and The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies sponsored a book launch for Dr. Daniel H. Joyner’s new book, International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Part of the Program on Nonproliferation Law and Policy. Mr. Leonard Spector, Esq., Deputy …

The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1890:
“The Security Council,
“Reaffirming its previous resolutions on Afghanistan, in particular its resolutions 1386 (2001), 1510 (2003), 1833 (2008) and 1868 (2009),
“Reaffirming also its resolutions 1267 (1999), 1368 (2001), 1373 (2001) and 1822 (2008), and reiterating its support for international efforts to root out terrorism in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,
“Recalling …

U2 performed at FedEx Field last Tuesday, and, unfortunately, my wife and I were unable to make it to the concert. By all accounts it was amazing.  With a hat tip to Melody Fox Ahmed of Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, I discovered this review by my Georgetown colleague, Michael Kessler, that appeared in the Washington …

As several previous posts have noted, Georgetown’s Institute for International Law & Politics and Lawrence Livermore Nation Laboratory co-sponsored a panel on October 1 entitled: “Integrating Disciplines: Cyber Security, Law and Policy. The panel was excellent and quite well attended. I live tweeted the event on Twitter here, and we a currently waiting for the release of the video of …

The AP reports:
The president of Somalia on Sunday denounced the recruiting of young men from Minnesota’s huge Somali community for terrorist activity in his war-ravaged homeland, and said he plans to work with the U.S. government to bring those still alive back home.President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed spoke with The Associated Press while visiting the Minneapolis area, where authorities believe …

In case you missed it,  from the Wall Street Journal:
President Barack Obama on Friday [September 25] named Victoria Espinel to be the new U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, an administration position created last year by Congress.The intellectual property coordinator, part of the Office of Management and Budget, is mandated as part of a law aimed at beefing up U.S. enforcement …

Here is the text from the State Department website:
MR. CROWLEY: A hale and hearty bunch that we have here on a Friday morning. Good morning, and welcome to the Department of State. Several of you were with the Secretary of State during her trip to Africa and the important visit that she made to Goma on that trip, and then …