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Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law: Papers from NYU’s Hauser Globalization Colloquium Fall 2009

With much thanks to Professor Ari Kohen over at Running Chicken for alerting us, here are the complete papers from the NYU Hauser Colloquium on Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law:
Hauser Globalization Colloquium Fall 2009:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law
Professor Ryan Goodman
Furman Hall 212
Wednesdays 2:00 pm-3:50pm
(unless otherwise noted)

The interdisciplinary study of international law has grown enormously in recent years and appears likely …

Breaking News: Another apparent incident on Northwest Flight 253

Apparently, there has been another incident on today’s Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. The AP is reporting:
The Associated Press has learned that a second Nigerian man has been taken into custody aboard a jetliner in Detroit after locking himself in the airliner’s bathroom.
A law enforcement official tells the AP that the incident took place aboard the …

Steve Bainbridge on the new TSA flying restrictions

Over at ProfessorBainbridge.com, my dear friend Steve Bainbridge has an excellent critique of the new Transportation Safety Administration’s new travel restrictions. As Bainbridge explains:
Predictably, TSA is responding to the most recent airplane terrorism incident by piling on even more stupid and ineffectual restrictions on passengers:
In the wake of the terrorism attempt Friday on a Northwest Airlines flight, federal officials on …

Audio: School of Foreign Service Dean Carol Lancaster and I review Obama’s first year in foreign policy for Voice of America

On the  Voice of America program, Encounter, School of Foreign Service Dean Carol Lancaster and I review President Obama’s first year in foreign policy.

Video: Peter Singer and Bill Easterly on Charity, Foreign Aid, Microfinance

(HT: Ari Kohen over at Running Chicken)

The fate of Department of Justice nominees– including Dawn Johnsen

Numerous previous posts have noted the failure of the Senate to confirm Dawn Johnsen as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. As this session of Congress comes to an end, Main Justice reports:
President Barack Obama will need to re-nominate three nominees for top Justice Department posts if he wants the Senate to consider them again.
The Senate …

Video: President appoints new Cyber Security “Czar”– Howard Schmidt

From the White House website, here is the announcement e-mail from John Brennan:

Dear Friend,Cybersecurity matters to all of us.  Protecting the internet is critical to our national security, public safety and our personal privacy and civil liberties.  It’s also vital to President Obama’s efforts to strengthen our country, from the modernization of our health care system to the high-tech job …

Are “Ambient Streams” the future of higher education?

How does the university adapt to the “New Media,” “Web 2.0,” Twitter, Facebook, IM’s, SMS’s, and everything that is the technology of today? Do we still use blackboards and chalk? (Actually, I do and think blackboards still have their place, but . . . .)
Over the years, I have had many conversations with creative technology thinkers, such as my dear …


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Anthony Clark Arend is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Commentary and analysis at the intersection of international law and politics.