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US Representative to the United Nations Dr. Susan Rice delivered an address today at the Security Council’s Sudan briefing. Here are her remarks as delivered:
Let me begin by thanking President Thabo Mbeki, Special Representative Menkerios, Joint Special Representative Gambari, and Joint Chief Mediator Bassole for their very helpful assessments and briefings to the Council this morning. The United States strongly …

In case you missed it, Professor Dawn Johnsen had an op ed in Friday’s Washington Post commenting on her failed nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Johnsen writes:
In 2004, the leak of a controversial memo on the use of torture catapulted the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel into the spotlight. Fallout and debate …

Der Spiegel Online is reporting:

Public prosecutors in Germany are looking into a war crimes complaint filed against Israel by two members of parliament with the far-left Left Party and a human rights activist who were on board the Mavi Marmara when Israeli troops stormed it 11 days ago.
Eleven days ago, the Israeli military stormed the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part …

Sixteen retired federal judges issued a report today under the sponsorship of Human Rights First and The Constitution Project. The report, titled Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases, presents the argument against a new indefinite detention law. From the Executive Summary:
Habeas is working. The judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have …

This past weekend, Georgetown University unveiled an amazing treasure trove of history– the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives. Over his forty-year career as Dean and Dean Emeritus of the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Peter hosted three exceptional television programs on foreign affairs– and has an Emmy Award to prove it. Recently, Lauinger Library digitalized these programs, and …

UN Plaza: International Law and Order

Is Israel’s blockade of Gaza legal? (05:29)
What Lincoln’s blockade of the Confederacy tells us about Gaza (04:57)
The international political fallout at the UN (05:28)
Kevin: America is the ICC’s concern troll (06:16)
How to define the international crime of “aggression” (09:44)
Are CIA drone pilots legal combatants? …

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field …

When I began blogging in 2005, one of my first posts called for the ratification of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. Since 1994, there has been wide-spread support for the ratification of the Convention, including from Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. It is thus no surprise that the recent National Security Strategy produced by …