Anthony Clark Arend

WILLIAM V. O’BRIEN LECTURE
IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND MORALITY

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

APRIL 30, 2013

ALBERTO MORA
My sincere thanks to Georgetown University for having conferred on me the distinction of being asked to present today the William O’Brien Lecture in International Law and Morality. I also wish to thank my friends, Mark Lagon and Tony Arend, for their support of …

The Supreme Court issued its Opinion in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum this morning. Chief Justice Roberts writing the Opinion of the Court:
We therefore conclude that the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims under the ATS, and that nothing in the statute rebuts that presumption.
.  .  .
On these facts, all the relevant conduct took place outside the United States. …

My dear friend (of over forty years!) and former fellow board member of the Virginia Journal of International Law, Steve Bainbridge, posts:

When I took International Law at Virginia, it turned out to be a course not about law but about the legal methodology of Myres McDougal. I hated it. No, I mean I hated it. Incomprehensible mumbo jumbo. So imagine …

“IS THE MILITARY USE OF DRONES ETHICALLY DEFENSIBLE?– YES AND NO”

MICHAEL WALZER

AUTHOR OF, JUST AND UNJUST WARS

13 March 2013
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Intercultural Center Auditorium

Georgetown University

Georgetown University’s Master of Foreign Service (MSFS) and Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and International Affairs are pleased to offer this unique talk by Michael Walzer on a burning ethical issue of the …

Over at Lawfare my friend Kenneth Anderson comments on my earlier post on judicial oversight of drones:

Georgetown professor Anthony Clark Arend – old friend to many of us at Lawfare – has a new short post on whether judicial oversight of drones would be a good idea – or constitutional.  He is skeptical on both counts (this can be added …

Today’s New York Times reports:
A secret legal review on the use of America’s growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible evidence of a major digital attack looming from abroad, according to officials involved in the review.
That decision is among several reached …

Charlie Savage has an interesting article in the New York Times on the role of General Mark Martins, the Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions for the United States. Savage reports:
UNTIL recently, no uniformed lawyer was viewed by the Obama administration with greater favor than Brig. Gen. Mark S. Martins, the scholarly chief prosecutor of the military commissions system who is leading …

Many congrats to Georgetown alum Denis McDonough (MSFS 1996) on his appointment as White House Chief of Staff. The Walsh School of Foreign Service reports:

Denis McDonough, a 1996 recipient of the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) degree from SFS, has been tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as his Chief of Staff.
McDonough is a member of the …