Articles in: International Law

Home » Archive » International Law

Videos: State Department releases 2009 Annual Human Rights Report

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

March 11, 2010

Every year, the Secretary of State hosts a briefing like this one. And while in that sense it may seem routine, this event is extraordinary because of its connection to who we are as a country and to the universal aspirations we seek to make real through our foreign policy.
The idea of human …

Terrorists: Criminals or Combatants?

My wife Tracy and I are excited to be in San Francisco again! Tomorrow night I will be giving a talk for the Georgetown University Alumni Club of Northern California entitled “Terrorists: Criminals or Combatants?” I will post comments about the evening.

James Raymond Vreeland– Obama Administration needs to show “bold global leadership” to combat protectionist moves in US

Over at The Vreelander, my great friend and Georgetown colleague, Professor James Raymond Vreeland, calls upon the Obama Administration to fight against protectionist impulses in the United States. He posts:
Congress is flirting with “Buy America” again, “complaining that money is going to projects that are creating jobs in foreign countries.” They’re pointing to the “Buy America” provisions in the 2009 …

Will the White House reverse its decision on civilian trials for the 9/11 terrorists?

The Huffington Post is reporting today:
In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that President Barack Obama opt for military tribunals for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior officials said.The review of where and how to hold a Sept. 11 trial is not over, so no recommendation is yet …

Erik Voeten on recent scholarship on UN Peacekeeping

Over at The Monkey Cage, my friend and Georgetown colleague, Erik Voeten, posts:

I wrote the previous post on UN peacekeeping as this was something I used to track closely but haven’t followed in the past five years. I was struck by the numbers as I gathered some graphs for teaching the other day. Holger Schmidt, who knows much more about …

Video and Text: Secretary Clinton on the Falkland/Malvinas dispute

QUESTION: (In Spanish.)
INTERPRETER: The journalist was just asking how the U.S. intends to negotiate to get the United Kingdom to sit at the table and address the Malvinas issue. And he was then asking about this setting up of the fund. So, what’s the reserves of the country?
SECRETARY CLINTON: As to the first point, we want very much to encourage …

Opinio Juris’s Online Symposium on Glennon’s “The Blank-Prose Crime of Aggression”

As indicated in a previous post, Opinio Juris is hosting the Yale Journal of International Law Online Symposium on Professor Michael Glennon’s article, “The Blank-Prose Crime of Aggression.”  Professor Glennon’s initial post has appeared today. The response of Larry Johnson, former UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, can be found here. And, finally, my response can be found here.
Be sure …

Breaking News: Supreme Court sends Uighurs’ case back to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

SCOTUSblog reports:

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the D.C. Circuit Court to take a new look at the case testing federal judges’ powers to order Guantanamo Bay detainees released from custody — a case the Justices had granted and were to hear later this month.  In a brief order, without noted dissent, the Court said the Circuit Court was to …


Connect: LinkedIn profile Connect: Twitter profile
Connect: LinkedIn profile

Welcome! Who am I?



Anthony Clark Arend is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Commentary and analysis at the intersection of international law and politics.