The transcript from today’s oral argument in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum can be found here. I have not yet had the chance to read the transcript, but Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog provides the following analysis:
Clearly wary of turning U.S. courts into monitors of rogue governments around the world, an apparent majority of the Supreme Court opened the new Term …
As noted in a previous post, last March, the Supreme Court ordered the reargument of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Esther Kiobel is pictured above, center). That reargument will take place tomorrow, the first day of the Court’s new Term. At issue, of course, is the status of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 USC § 1350, first incorporated in …
My colleagues (and friends!) Dan Byman and Charles King have a fascinating article in The Washington Quarterly on “The Mystery of Phantom States.” In this piece, they explore the existence of polities that seem to have de facto statehood, like Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno—Karabakh and the Dniester Moldovan Republic. They argue:
Seeing phantom statehood as simply a legitimacy problem or a …
Over at The Internationalist, my dear friend and colleague, Ambassador Mark Lagon, posts on lessons for intervention in Syria. Lagon writes:
Despite a reputation as arch-hawk, in her twilight years the first U.S. female UN ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick, privately opposed invasion and occupation in Iraq. (I knew, as she was my mentor.) Biographer extraordinaire Peter Collier documents this …
The 2012 Georgetown Summer International Relations Program for High School Students begins today! Later today, 226 high school students from all over the worlds will be arriving for orientation. The academic program will official begin tomorrow morning. As in past years, we a look forward to an outstanding program!
We will be live-Tweeting the program on Twitter at @SummerIR and posting …
This just in . . .my friend and Georgetown colleague, Matt Kroenig, will be teaching a course at Georgetown University’s Alumni College, Saturday, June 30th in San Francisco. More information can be found here. Even if you have not pre-registered, walk-ins are welcomed.
Matt is the author of the recent Foreign Affairs article, Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike is …
To: The Georgetown University Community
From: Wayne Davis, President, Faculty Senate
Re: Resolution for the University of Virginia
The Georgetown Faculty Senate approved the following resolution, and sent it to George Cohen, Chair of the Faculty Senate at the University of Virginia, on June 23:
The Georgetown University Faculty Senate joins the University of Virginia community in condemning the dismissal of its President early …
My friend and mentor, Professor John Norton Moore, appearing on C-SPAN in support of US ratification of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. Ambassador Moore was Chair of the NSC Inter-Agency Task Force on the Law of the Sea and is the Director of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia School …
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.
Subscribe RSS
Comment RSS