Anthony Clark Arend

Over at the Huffington Post, Lt. Col. (ret) William Astore raises an interesting challenge. Astore writes:
A subtle change has been happening right before the eyes of Americans. Our troops are being told they’re no longer primarily citizen-soldiers or citizen-airmen; they’re being told they’re warriors. Indeed, they’re reminded of this linguistic turn in “creeds” that many of them (and often …

The UN News Centre reports:
30 July 2010 – The Security Council today voted to extend by another year the mandate of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, where violence once again rocked a large camp for people uprooted by the conflict in the war-ravaged Sudanese region.In its unanimously adopted resolution, the Council strongly condemned all attacks on …

In case you missed this . . .my friend, Cornell Professor Gustavo Flores-Macías, had an outstanding op-ed in the New York Times on how to address the drug war in Mexico. He writes:
BOTH the United States and Mexico have approached the war on Mexican drug cartels with Colombia in mind.
Washington’s Merida Initiative, loosely modeled on its Plan Colombia antidrug campaign …

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Conversations with America: The New START Treaty

Office of the Spokesman of the State Department

Washington, DC

July 29, 2010
Ellen Tauscher, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, will hold a conversation with Steven Pifer, Director of the Brookings Institution’s Arms Control Initiative, on the New START Treaty. The discussion will be moderated by Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State, …

The International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence

FPC Briefing
Harold Hongju Koh
Legal Adviser of the Department of State
U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell
Foreign Press Center
Washington, DC
July 22, 2010
4:00PM EDT
MODERATOR: Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Foreign Press Center. This afternoon we are pleased to have the legal advisor of the Department of State Harold Koh, …

The International Court of Justice issued its advisory opinion on the lawfulness of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence today. The New York Times reports:
Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, the United Nations’ highest court said Thursday in a ruling that Kosovo heralded as a victory but that legal experts …

Professor Michael J. Glennon is one of the most thoughtful scholars of international law today. At a time when far too many writers paint an overly optimistic picture of the current state of the international legal system, Mike Glennon assiduously works to give an accurate portrayal of the realities of the law. Stanford University Press has just published his latest …

The White House released today, the Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force.  Not surprisingly, one of the recommendations is for the US to ratify the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Task Force notes:
The Task Force strongly and unanimously supports United States accession to the Convention on the Law of the Sea …