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From the White House website:

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release
December 23, 2011

Statement by the President on H.R. 2055
Today I have signed into law H.R. 2055, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012.” This bill provides the funding necessary for the smooth operation of our Nation’s Government.
I have previously announced that it is the policy of my Administration, …

Several previous posts ( for example, here, here, and here) have noted recent developments on the question of corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. With an HT to Daniel Buk, I am happy to report that the Obama Administration recently filed an amicus brief supporting corporate liability under the ATS. Over at Lawfare, former State Department Legal Adviser John …

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 …

The New York Times reports:
Canada said on Monday that it would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Under that accord, major industrialized nations agreed to meet targets for reducing emissions, but mandates were not imposed on developing countries like Brazil, China, India and South Africa. The United States never ratified the …

From the ICC website:

Today the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, requested Pre-Trial Chamber I to issue an arrest warrant against the current Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur from August 2003 to March 2004.
The evidence allowed the Office of the Prosecutor to …

Check out this excellent article in the Washington Post about my friend and Georgetown colleague, Phill Karber’s Georgetown class. William Wan writes:
The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal.
For the past three years, a small band of obsessively dedicated …