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forthcoming scholarship

Symmetry and Selectivity: What Happens in International Law When the World Changes Chicago Journal of International Law, (forthcoming) Paul B. Stephan (Univ. of Virginia – Law) This article has a simple hypothesis: Selectivity in international law increases as international relations become more symmetrical. Conversely, international law becomes more universal as asymmetry grows. This relation holds… Continue reading forthcoming scholarship

Today’s executive orders on GTMO, interrogation, detention, and Al-Marri

* Today’s executive orders on GTMO, CIA detention and interrogation, and the Al-Marri case Attached are copies of the four new executive orders.  A brief overview of each follows below.  The long and short of it is that a variation of the NSC principals’ committee will have 6 months to come up with new policies… Continue reading Today’s executive orders on GTMO, interrogation, detention, and Al-Marri

AG opinion on constitutionality of proposed OLC reporting act; forthcoming scholarship

1.  Attorney General Mukasey, Constitutionality of the OLC Reporting Act of 2008 (Nov. 14, 2008) (made public 1/12/09) OLC has released a memorandum from AG Mukasey to the Senate Majority Leader, from November 2008, declaring his view that proposed legislation requiring public disclosure of OLC memos in certain scenarios would be unconstitutional.  The memo is… Continue reading AG opinion on constitutionality of proposed OLC reporting act; forthcoming scholarship