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Exploring the Supreme Court’s role in foreign policy, Noah Feldman argues against unilateralism in the law
In the seven years since 9/11, the question of how we relate to the rest of the world -- and how we should -- has inescapably made its way to the Supreme Court, as the United States has tried to balance the benefits of multilateral alliances with the demands of unilateral self-protection, observes Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman. And, he says, it is increasingly becoming clear that the defining constitutional problem for the present generation will be the nature of the relationship of the United States to the international order.
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Needed: A Regional Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Assistant Professor Gabriella Blum LL.M. ’01 S.J.D. ’03, an international law scholar, is a native of Israel, where, as a young officer in the Israel Defense Forces International Law Department, she was involved in Israeli-Arab peace negotiations. She later advised the IDF on counterterrorism operations, and the Israeli national security adviser on the planning and execution of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank. We asked Blum: As the next U.S. president faces the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, what should he aspire to?
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Lawyers for the Damned
For students and faculty in an HLS clinic, human rights and environmental law flow together.
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HLS grad is elected president of Taiwan
Running on a promise to improve relations with mainland China, former Taipei mayor and Harvard Law graduate Ma Ying-jeou S.J.D. '81 was elected president of Taiwan this weekend.
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Michael Waibel LL.M. '08 wins prestigious Deak Prize
Michael Waibel LL.M. '08 was awarded the Francis Deak Prize by the American Society of International Law for his paper entitled "Opening Pandora's Box: Sovereign Bonds in International Arbitration."
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Alford honored for contributions to 2007 Special Olympics Summer Games
On May 19, Professor William Alford '77 was honored for his contributions to the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games, held in Shanghai, China.
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In new book, Feldman looks behind the calls for Sharia
In Professor Noah Feldman's latest book, he seeks to explain the rapid growth of Islamist political parties calling for the establishment of religious Sharia as the governing law.
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Harvard Law grads share prestigious Gruber Foundation Prize for International Justice
Judge Thomas Buergenthal LL.M. '61 S.J.D. '68 and Jerome Shestack '49 are co-recipients of the Gruber Foundation's International Justice Prize for 2008.
Navi Pillay LL.M. '82 S.J.D. '88 Read More »
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