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Exploring International Law 
A blog by the Institute for International Law and Politics which provides commentary and analysis at the intersection of international law and politics.
Post Frequency: 10/day Last Entry: February 11, 2009 at 00:45:00 Recent Entries: 371
By Anthony Arend
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Does Congress's Authorization to Use Force In Iraq Expire?
Posted on April 05, 2008Yale Professors Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway have a provocative piece in today's Washington Post. They argue that unless the United Nations Security Council adopts another reso
April 4th, 1968: "Shot Rings Out in the Memphis Sky"
Posted on April 04, 2008Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, with Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, and Ira Sandpearl in 1966 photo- Bob FitchToday marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Mar
Justice Declassifies Another John Yoo OLC Memo
Posted on April 02, 2008John YooThe Washington Post is reporting this evening:Federal laws prohibiting assault and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives bec
Jack Goldsmith's Advice to the Next President on Legal Policies and the War on Terror
Posted on April 02, 2008Jack L. GoldsmithTeddy Svoronos brings this fascinating piece by Jack Goldsmith to my attention. Writing in Slate, Goldsmith offers some useful advice to the next president regardi
How to Start Your Own State
Posted on March 31, 2008Flag of Transnistria-- a de facto, but not a de jure state? On the lighter side-- check out Joshua Keating's post in Foreign Policy on-line--- "How to Start Your Own Country
Remembering the "Killing Fields": Dith Pran Dies at 65
Posted on March 30, 2008Dith Pran at a museum at Tuol Sleng, Cambodia Photo---SteveMcCurry/Magnum
More on the Destruction of the Tapes and the Detainees
Posted on March 28, 2008CIA Director Michael HaydenMARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE report in today's New York Times on more potential fallout from the destruction of the CIA interrogatIon tapes. They
Canadian Olympic Swimmer: Don't Boycott Beijing Olympics
Posted on March 26, 2008Nikki DrydenNikki Dryden swam for Canada at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. She is now a human rights lawyer in New York and a board member of Team Darfur. In Embassy, a Canadian forei
Modern-Day Slavery
Posted on March 24, 2008Georgetown's Director of Digital Media and Institute for International Law & Politics Senior Associate Robert Murray brings the story of E. Benjamin Skinner to our attention. S
Serbia Accuses UN of Improper Use of Force
Posted on March 23, 2008Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica Reuters is reporting this morning:Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica on Sunday accused NATO peacekeepers and United Nat
Remembering Abu Ghraib
Posted on March 23, 2008Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris have an article in the latest issue of the New Yorker telling the story of Army Specialist Sabrina Harman, formerly of the 372nd Military Police
ETA Bombs Police Station in Spain
Posted on March 22, 2008Bombed area of Calahorra, SpainThe BBC is reporting this morning:A car bomb has exploded outside a Guardia Civil barracks in the north of Spain after a warning call from Basque sep
Three Presidential Candidates' State Department Files Were Improperly Accessed
Posted on March 21, 2008Sean McCormack, Assistant Secretary of State for Public AffairsVia the New York Times-- here is the State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack's statmenf from earlier today: MC
More on Naming "Macedonia"
Posted on March 21, 2008A previous post discussed the current controversy over admitting the state known as "Macedonia" to NATO and the EU. Reuters is reporting this morning that there may
More Cyber Attacks from China?
Posted on March 21, 2008The Washington Post reports:Human rights and pro-democracy groups sympathetic to anti-China demonstrators in Tibet are being targeted by sophisticated cyber attacks designed to dis
Bush on Iran's Nuclear Prospects
Posted on March 20, 2008Bush on WednesdayThe Washington Post is reporting this afternoon: President Bush said the Iranian government has "declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy peop
Cyber Attack from China Against the Save Darfur Coalition?
Posted on March 20, 2008The Save Darfur Coalition sent out a press release today indicating that their organization may have been the victim of cyber attacks originating in China. The press release explai
In the Name of the Son: Remembering the War in the Balkans
Posted on March 19, 2008From In the Name of the SonWith the recent tensions over Kosovo's efforts to declare independence, memories of the horrors of Balkans wars of the 1990's are returning. Last year, H
Deterring Terrorists?
Posted on March 17, 2008Michael VickersCan terrorists be deterred? The conventional wisdom is that terrorists are non-state actors that cannot be deterred the same way in which states can. We cannot threa
Dalai Lama Accuses China of "Cultural Genocide"
Posted on March 17, 2008CNN reports:The Dalai Lama on Sunday called for an international probe of China's treatment of Tibet, which he said is causing "cultural genocide" of his people.The exile
Omar Khadr's Lawyers Comment on the Case
Posted on March 17, 2008Lt. Cmdr William Kuebler and Rebecca SnyderOmar Khadr's lawyers Lt. Cmdr William Kuebler and Rebecca Snyder have an op ed in today's Miami Herald discussin the case of their client
Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arugment in More Detainee Cases on March 25th
Posted on March 15, 2008Shawqi Ahmad OmarEven as the Supreme Court considers how to decide Boumediene v. Bush v. Bush/al Odah v. US, the Court will hear oral argument on March 25th in the cases of Munaf
Herr Doktor?
Posted on March 15, 2008"Dr." Ian Thomas BaldwinThis is just bizarre. Yesterday's Washington Post reports:Americans with PhDs beware: Telling people in Germany that you're a doctor could land yo
Alan Dershowitz on "Revising" International Law
Posted on March 14, 2008Alan Dershowitz The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has now turned his sights toward "revising" international law in the wake
Ronald Kessler on the Geneva Convention on POW's
Posted on March 14, 2008Ronald KesslerIn case you missed The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Wednesday, you missed author Ronald Kessler misapplying the Geneva Convention on POW's. The video can be f
More Interrogation Tapes
Posted on March 12, 2008Ali al-MarriThe New York Times reports:The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guant&aacut
Bush: Rewriting History?
Posted on March 11, 2008Earlier today President Bush delivered an address to the 2008 Convention of the National Religious Broad
Torture and Freedom
Posted on March 10, 2008Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks ThistlethwaiteSusan Brooks Thistlethwaite, President of the Chicago Theological Seminary, has a provocative op ed in the Washington Post/Newsweek On Fai
The Andean Crisis: Commentary by Gustavo Flores-Macías and Sarah E. Kreps
Posted on March 09, 2008President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia, left, shaking hands
Interrogation Techniques:Let's Not Reinvent the Wheel
Posted on March 09, 2008A Torture WheelScott Shane has a fascinating article in today's New York Times entitled, "The Unstudied Art of Interrogation." In the wake of the veto of the Intelligence
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