Anthony Clark Arend

Louis Henkin was one of the greatest international legal scholars of his generation. Professor Henkin passed away on Thursday, October 14th at the age of 92.  His obituary in the New York Times chronicles his remarkable life and his contributions to both the practice and theory of international and constitutional law:
Louis Henkin, a legal scholar often credited with creating the …

Former Assistant Attorney General, Jack Goldsmith, has an op ed in yesterday’s New York Times suggesting how the United States should deal with captured terror suspects. His bottom-line answer: detention without trial. Goldsmith writes:
THE Obama administration wants to show that federal courts can handle trials of Guantánamo Bay detainees, and had therefore placed high hopes in the prosecution of Ahmed …

Over at The Vreelander, my great friend and colleague, Jim Vreeland, has started a fascinating series of post centering around the question- Who should lead a multipolar world? His first post, which was mentioned here previously, discussed World Bank President Robert Zoellick’s visit to Georgetown. His second two posts (here and here) explore “The Committees that Rule the World,” and …

I have been remiss in giving a shout-out to an excellent new (well, at least relatively, new) blog on national security law. Entitled Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices, this blog is written by three outstanding commentators in the field– Ben Wittes, Bobby Chesney, and Jack Goldsmith. I highly recommend it for thoughtful discussions of the most pressing legal issues relating …

In case you missed it, the New York Times had an excellent editorial on the value of using civilian, Article III, courts for trying terror suspects. They write:
Supporters of the tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who insist military justice, not the federal courts, is the best way to deal with terrorists, should pay close attention to Tuesday’s events …

In case you missed it, my friend and colleague, Mark Vlasic, had an excellent op ed in The International Herald Tribune yesterday. He writes:
Twenty-four years after Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier left a champagne-filled party at his presidential palace and boarded a chartered jet to flee Haiti, leaving a chaotic and economically scarred nation behind, a democratically elected …

There is a longstanding relationship between sports and international politics.  Over at The Vreelander, my friend and colleague James Raymond Vreeland offers a fascinating suggestion about how sports could help build international solidarity. He writes:

Saw Invictus. It inspired me.
It’s the story of how President Nelson Mandela risked political capital by supporting South Africa’s rugby team, the Springboks, which had been …

Yesterday, World Bank President Robert Zoellick delivered an address in Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall. Over at The Vreelander, my friend and colleague, Jim Vreeland, has blogged on the exchanged he had with Zoellick. He writes:

The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, visited Georgetown University yesterday. I asked him about the future of the leadership of the organization. …