December 30, 2009 # 1:15 pm # Armed Conflict, Education, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations, Supreme Court # No Comment
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 …
December 27, 2009 # 2:38 pm # Foreign Policy # No Comment
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 …
December 27, 2009 # 1:47 pm # Foreign Policy # No Comment
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 …
December 27, 2009 # 11:49 am # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law, International Organizations # No Comment
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.
December 26, 2009 # 10:37 am # Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Organizations # No Comment
(HT: Ari Kohen over at Running Chicken)
December 24, 2009 # 3:41 pm # Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law # No Comment
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 …
December 22, 2009 # 12:08 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Intelligence # No Comment
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 …
December 20, 2009 # 7:47 pm # Education # 2 Comments
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 …