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An excellent editorial in the New York Times reports on the strange trial of Spanish Prosecutor Baltasar Garzón:
Terrible crimes were committed during and after Spain’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating magistrates, Baltasar Garzón, …

Voice of America Host Carol Castiel interviews Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Dean Carol Lancaster and me about foreign policy challenges for the United States in 2012. Areas discussed include: China, Iran, the Arab world, Latin America, and the US defense budget.

For the third time in a row, Georgetown University’s Masters programs in international relations have been rated #1 by a survey published in Foreign Policy magazine. The survey (complete survey here) conducted by Paul C. Avey, Michael C. Desch, James D. Long, Daniel Maliniak, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney asked questions of  1,582 U.S. scholars of international relations. …

From Faith Complex, a series of Georgetown’s Program on Jewish Civilization:
On May 2, 2011, Navy SEALS cornered and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, nearly ten years after the so-called War on Terror was first declared. Bin Laden’s death leaves unanswered questions such as: Who will inherit al-Qaeda’s leadership? What is the future of the …

Secretary Clinton’s Remarks on Women, Peace, and Security
Address

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

December 19, 2011
Thank you.  Well, it is wonderful to be back at Georgetown to give all of the students an excuse not to keep studying for their last finals.  (Laughter.)  That’s what accounts for the enthusiastic response here in Gaston Hall.
But thank you so …

I just learned today that my old friend, Professor David J. Bederman, died on December 4. David was a brilliant and prolific scholar of international law at Emory University Law School. We first met over a quarter of a Century ago, when we were both students at the University of Virginia. David was a great person– a world-renowned scholar, a …

Haysel Hernandez-Holzhsu, (MSFS ‘13) writes:
Georgetown’s Generations for Peace Fellows shared the experiences of their summer research during a brown bag lunch with Master of Science in Foreign Service staff, students and practitioners in the field on October 19. Under the guidance of Post-Doctoral Fellow Dr. Sarah Hillyer, Sarah Moran (MSFS ’12), Meeghan Zahorsky (MA in …

The New York Times reports:
Antonio Cassese, a prominent Italian jurist who helped found two international war-crimes tribunals and who was often described as the chief architect of modern international criminal justice, died early Saturday at his home in Florence, Italy. He was 74.
His death came after a long battle with cancer, his wife, Sylvia, said.
In books, law …