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Video and Text: Secretary Clinton on the Falkland/Malvinas dispute

QUESTION: (In Spanish.)
INTERPRETER: The journalist was just asking how the U.S. intends to negotiate to get the United Kingdom to sit at the table and address the Malvinas issue. And he was then asking about this setting up of the fund. So, what’s the reserves of the country?
SECRETARY CLINTON: As to the first point, we want very much to encourage …

Opinio Juris’s Online Symposium on Glennon’s “The Blank-Prose Crime of Aggression”

As indicated in a previous post, Opinio Juris is hosting the Yale Journal of International Law Online Symposium on Professor Michael Glennon’s article, “The Blank-Prose Crime of Aggression.”  Professor Glennon’s initial post has appeared today. The response of Larry Johnson, former UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, can be found here. And, finally, my response can be found here.
Be sure …

Breaking News: Supreme Court sends Uighurs’ case back to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

SCOTUSblog reports:

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the D.C. Circuit Court to take a new look at the case testing federal judges’ powers to order Guantanamo Bay detainees released from custody — a case the Justices had granted and were to hear later this month.  In a brief order, without noted dissent, the Court said the Circuit Court was to …

Opinio Juris to host Yale Journal of International Law Online Symposium on Glennon’s “The Blank-Prose Crime of Aggression”

Julian Ku over at Opinio Juris explains:
On Monday, Michael J. Glennon of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy will be leading a discussion around his timely Article The Blank-Prose Crime of Aggression. In his Article, Glennon addresses the draft definition of the crime of aggression that was released in early 2009 and is set to be voted upon by …

Transcript of Oral Argument in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project

A previous post noted that oral argument was to be held last Tuesday in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. The transcript from the oral argument  can be found here.
In case you missed it, the New York Times described the oral argument as follows:
The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday to balance the constitutional rights of humanitarian aid groups with the government’s efforts …

Does the Establishment Clause in the US Constitution limit foreign policy?

Over at Georgetown/On Faith in the Washington Post, my colleague Michael Kessler is beginning a series of articles on that question. He explains:
Does the Establishment Clause prevent the President from using or aiding religion as part of foreign policy? Absolutely not, so long as it is not action upon U.S. citizens.
You may not like this result, and you may think …

The UN’s approval ratings– better than Congress

My friend and colleague, Erik Voeten posts over at The Monkey Cage:

A new Gallup World Affairs Poll shows that thirty-one percent of Americans say the United Nations is doing a good job of solving the problems it has had to face. This is a slight improvement over last year’s numbers but still low. Over at Opinio Juris, there is a …

ORAL ARGUMENT TODAY: Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project

As SCOTUSblog reports, the oral argument is scheduled for
~10 a.m. -In Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (08-1498; 09-89), the Court will consider whether a federal statute prohibiting the knowing provision of “any service, training, [or] expert advice or assistance” to a designated foreign terrorist organization is unconstitutionally vague.  Lyle Denniston’s discussion of the case is here.
My Georgetown University Law Center …


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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.