by Harris Institute | Apr 11, 2017 | Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Negotiations, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Leila Sadat Although one can fault the Obama administration for its tepid policy towards Syria, Trump’s airstrikes against a Syrian military base on Thursday, April 6th take the U.S. policy towards Syria in a dangerous new direction. Although it’s tempting to...
by Harris Institute | Feb 1, 2017 | Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Refugee and Asylum Law, United Nations
By: Leila Nadya Sadat Last week Donald Trump took aim at the international economic order and the international institutions and alliances charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. This week’s post does not specifically focus on those policies;...
by Harris Institute | Jan 23, 2017 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, International Criminal Law, The International Criminal Court, United Nations
By: Leila Nadya Sadat Last fall I had the opportunity to witness and celebrate forward progress in international law making. At the end of September, I attended a terrific conference on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the issuance of the judgment of the...
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 | Oct 3, 2016 | Comparative Law, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Legal Education, United Nations
By: Fizza Batool This past summer I was incredibly fortunate to travel to The Hague, the Netherlands to study public international law for three weeks due to the generosity of Washington University School of Law and the Dagen-Legomsky Hague Fellowship through the...
by Harris Institute | May 5, 2016 | Climate Change, Human Rights, Negotiations, Public Health, United Nations
By: Tamara L. Slater In the finals weeks of 2015 under the auspices of the UNFCCC, 195 nations adopted a global climate change agreement in Paris, France that has the potential to save humanity from the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change. The so-called...
