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In case you missed it, Professor Dawn Johnsen had an op ed in Friday’s Washington Post commenting on her failed nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Johnsen writes:
In 2004, the leak of a controversial memo on the use of torture catapulted the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel into the spotlight. Fallout and debate …

Der Spiegel Online is reporting:

Public prosecutors in Germany are looking into a war crimes complaint filed against Israel by two members of parliament with the far-left Left Party and a human rights activist who were on board the Mavi Marmara when Israeli troops stormed it 11 days ago.
Eleven days ago, the Israeli military stormed the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part …

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? …

Jeremy Mayer of George Mason University talked about how President Obama has responded to the Gulf oil spill and how past presidents have succeeded and failed in the responses to past crises. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Current political cartoons were shown at the end of the program.

Kudos to my friend and former Georgetown colleague, …

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 …

Over at Georgetown’s Master of Science in Foreign Service site, recent MSFS grad Amina Khan interviewed Georgetown Professor and former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios. Khan writes:

On April 27, 2010 US Senator Richard Lugar stated at a press conference with the CSIS- “Facing a previous crisis in food security, the United States was at the forefront of the Green Revolution that …