Anthony Clark Arend

As noted in the previous post, the 2009 Summer International Relations Program for High School Students has been taking place over the course of this past week. Starting last night and continuing through today, the students have been engaging in a crisis simuation relating to Somalia. In a few minutes, they will begin the final phase of this simulation– a …

Since 1988, I have been running a week-long program for high school students interested in international relations under the auspices of Georgetown’s School for Continuing Studies. This afternoon about 224 high school students will check into the dorms to begin an intensive exploration of international relations. Here is a list of topics and speakers:
Georgetown University
International Relations Program for High …

Last month, the State Department issued the Administration’s treaty priority list. This list is divided into two categories: treaties whose ratification is being sought, and those whose ratification is not being sought.
In the first category, are 14 treaties, including the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Inter-American Convention Against …

It with great sadness that we learned that Thomas M. Franck, one of the world’s leading scholars of international and national security law, passed away earlier this week. Lucy Reed, the President of the American Society of International Law sent out this note on Thursday:
Dear ASIL Colleagues,
I am very sorry to share with you the news that ASIL Honorary President …

The BBC is reporting:
Bahr Idriss Abu Garda is charged with taking part in an attack in north Darfur in 2007, during which 12 African Union (AU) peacekeepers were killed.
Mr Abu Garda is the first Darfur rebel to have voluntarily answered a summons from the ICC, the court said.
The former senior member of the Jem rebel group denies any involvement.
“I will …

Dr. Susan Rice, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations. commenting on the US election to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
HT: MaximsNews Network

As far as I can tell this is the first time a state has called upon the Security Council to apologize for an action. The New York Times is reporting:
“Unless the U.N. Security Council immediately apologizes, we will have no choice but to take inevitable additional self-defense measures,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman told the North’s state-run news …

It is quite unfortunate that there has been any opposition to the appointment of Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be Legal Adviser at the Department of State. Koh is a brilliant, world-reknowned international legal scholar who previously served in a variety of U.S. Government posts, including Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor during the …