Anthony Clark Arend

As is now quite well known, on April 2nd, Federal District Judge John D. Bates issued a landmark opinion on the scope of habeas corpus in Maqaleh v. Gates. Faced with the question of whether the right of habeas should be extended to four persons detained by the United States at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, Bates ruled that three out …

CNN is reporting:
A U.S. warship arrived before dawn Thursday near a 28-foot lifeboat holding four pirates and the kidnapped captain of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, officials said.
Also nearby was the Maersk Alabama — which had been seized early Wednesday off the Horn of Africa. All 20 of its remaining crew members were in good physical shape, said Ken Quinn, second …

The New York Times is reporting:
North Korea defied the United States, China and a series of United Nations resolutions by launching a rocket on Sunday that the country said was designed to propel a satellite into space, but that much of the world viewed as an effort to prove it is edging toward the capability to shoot a nuclear warhead …

Over at Nukes on a blog, my great friend, Doug Shaw, reports on a talk given by Ploughshares Fund President and MSFS faculty member, Joseph Cirincione at the Elliot School at the George Washington University. Shaw notes:
Highlighting the importance of what the New York Times editorial page had earlier in the day called a “Watershed Moment on Nuclear Arms,” …

In case you missed it, former US Ambassador for the United Nations, Thomas R. Pickering, and former FBI Director, William S. Sessions, had an op ed in Monday’s Washington Post arguing in favor of the creation of a presidential commission to investigate the behavior of American officials in the post-9/11 world. They explain:
America needs President Obama to name a nonpartisan …

The AP is reporting this afternoon:
President Barack Obama has nominated Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State.In making the announcement Monday, Obama called Koh one of the country’s leading experts on public and private international law, national security law and human rights.
Yale says that in his 24 years at the law school, …

The previous post discussed President Obama’s memo on the use of signing statements and signaled a more modest approach than the previous Administration. Yesterday, the President issued a statement in connection with signature of H.R. 1150. The President explained:
Today I have signed into law H.R. 1105, the “Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009.” This bill completes the work of last year by …

Filling Positions at the Department of State from Anthony Clark Arend on Vimeo.
Professor Anthony Clark Arend discusses the need for the Obama Administration to quickly fill critical positions at the Department of State.