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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 …

Over at Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch opines on his candidates for this dubious honor. Not sure I would agree with all the choices, but it makes for interesting conversation! Lynch writes:
Following is a list of the 10 of the most ill-conceived, pointless, or just plain bad resolutions that have been adopted by the 15-nation security club. Some of these resolutions …

My friend and Georgetown colleague, Victor Cha, appeared on C-Span to discuss US foreign policy toward North Korea. Cha, an international recognized expert on Korea, was Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. He holds the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government at Georgetown, where he is also Director of Asian Studies.

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