Anthony Clark Arend

Martha Heinemann Bixby posts over at Inside the Beltway & Outside the Ordinary:

Today marked the start of the Sudanese elections.  Voting is scheduled to run from April 11-13, with results expected to be announced on the 18th.
The BBC and Reuters have good run-downs of the complexities of these elections, including the logistical and political challenges surrounding them and a …

Remarks on Nuclear Nonproliferation at the University of Louisville as Part of the McConnell Center’s Spring Lecture Series

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY

April 9, 2010

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very, very much. (Applause.) Oh, it is wonderful to be here and to see this kind of a crowd on a beautiful Friday afternoon to talk about foreign …

Professor Michael J. Glennon is one of the most thoughtful international legal scholars today. Previous posts have noted that last month Opinio Juris hosted the Yale Journal of International Law Online Symposium on Glennon’s article, “The Blank-Prose Crime of Aggression.” Glennon has an op ed in today’s International Herald Tribune on the upcoming ICC Review Conference and efforts to define …

In case you missed this, Dr. Michael Sulick, Director of the National Clandestine Service, recently delivered an address at Fordham University.  After his address, Dr. Sulick was asked about waterboarding. The Fordham press release explains:
Sulick followed his lecture with a lengthy question-and-answer session, although he prefaced it by saying he would not comment on any issue that might influence policy. …

Reuters is reporting:
BELGRADE, March 31 (Reuters) – Serbia’s parliament apologised on Wednesday for the 1995 killing of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, but the process only highlighted how deeply polarised the country remains about its wartime past.
The resolution expressed sympathy to victims and apologised for not doing enough to prevent the massacre, but stopped short of calling the killings …

A  previous post contained State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh’s Address before the American Society of International Law last week. As the post demonstrated, one of the areas that Koh discussed was the legality of targeted killings. Koh noted:
In U.S. operations against al Qaeda and its associated forces– including lethal operations conducted with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles– great …

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 …