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I just discovered my friend and Georgetown colleague, Nancy Sherman’s, excellent new website.  The site contains a blog, information on publications, media appearances, and many other items. Dr. Sherman is a distinguished University Professor at Georgetown, specializing in ethics– especially military ethics. She is the author of many works, including The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds and Souls of …

My friend and distinguished Georgetown colleague, Professor Richard Stites, died on March 7 in Helsinki. Stites was a brilliant scholar and teacher, whom I met with I was a student at Georgetown University in the 1970’s. My first contact with Richard came when I was enrolled in Professor David Goldfrank’s History of Russia class. Stites taught the other section of …

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Fresh from my visit at Yahoo! this past Tuesday, I wanted to post on some more great Yahoo! news. From the Yahoo! Business and Human Rights Program Blog:
The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Morgan as its first Executive Director. As Executive Director, Ms. Morgan will be responsible for continuing to make GNI a …

It was my great pleasure today to visit the Yahoo! Campus in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo! has an extremely active Business and Human Rights Program that supports a wide-variety of specific initiatives. In 2007, Yahoo! made a very generous contribution to Georgetown University to establish the Yahoo! International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund. This Fund supports the work …

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 …

(HT: Slate from Greg Mitchell)

Joshua Mitchell: Starting a Private University in Iraq

On leave from the government department of Georgetown University, Joshua Mitchell, acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani, talks about the challenges of starting a private university in a country damaged by years of war. He also shares the special pitch he gives prospective faculty members.
(From the Chronicle of Higher …

With much thanks to Professor Ari Kohen over at Running Chicken for alerting us, here are the complete papers from the NYU Hauser Colloquium on Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law:
Hauser Globalization Colloquium Fall 2009:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law
Professor Ryan Goodman
Furman Hall 212
Wednesdays 2:00 pm-3:50pm
(unless otherwise noted)

The interdisciplinary study of international law has grown enormously in recent years and appears likely …