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.
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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 …

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 …

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 …

My dear friend Dan Porterfield, President of Franklin & Marshall College, offered these observations in the Huffington Post. I was 9 years-old when Dr. King was assassinated. My father and I were watching television on the evening of April 4, 1968 when the special bulletin interrupted the program. I remember my father being troubled. And I remember not knowing who …

The transcript from today’s oral argument in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum can be found here. I have not yet had the chance to read the transcript, but Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog provides the following analysis:

Clearly wary of turning U.S. courts into monitors of rogue governments around the world, an apparent majority of the Supreme Court opened the new Term …

The 2012 Georgetown Summer International Relations Program for High School Students begins today! Later today, 226 high school students from all over the worlds will be arriving for orientation. The academic program will official begin tomorrow morning. As in past years, we a look forward to an outstanding program!
We will be live-Tweeting the program on Twitter at @SummerIR and posting …