by Harris Institute | Oct 11, 2016 | Climate Change, Comparative Law, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Negotiations, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Marla Borkson Thanks to the generosity of Washington University School of Law and the Harris Institute’s Dagen-Legomsky Fellowship, I was able to secure a position with the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, China this summer. First established in 1844, the U.S....
by Harris Institute | Jun 27, 2016 | EU Law, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Rule of Law, Uncategorized
By: Leila Nadya Sadat As someone who has taught European Union law for years, it seems to me that much of the discussion about whether the United Kingdom should leave or remain in the EU, also known as “Brexit,” has missed the point. There are many...
by Harris Institute | Dec 11, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Hari Osofsky Expectancy has dominated the last two days as people awaited each day’s new draft of the agreement. Because the negotiations are taking place behind closed doors, people use relationships to learn ever-evolving information about the state of...
by Harris Institute | Dec 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, United Nations
By: Hari Osofsky I appreciate the opportunity to guest blog with Opinio Juris while at the Paris climate change negotiations this week. I will aim in my blogs to complement Dan Bodansky’s excellent assessment of the negotiations among state parties by examining the...
by Harris Institute | Mar 27, 2015 | Foreign Relations Law, Uncategorized
By: Leila Nadya Sadat In 2012, the American Law Institute (ALI) was approached by Professors Paul Stephan and Sarah Cleveland to do a new Restatement Fourth of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. Their proposal posited that, with the end of the Cold War...
