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International Law as Law of the United States. By Jordan J. Paust. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 480. Index. $45
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Volume 90, Issue 4, p. 693-697
ISSN: 2161-7953
International Institutions and the World's Water
In: Proceedings of the annual meeting / American Society of International Law, Volume 90, p. 499-504
ISSN: 2169-1118
The President's Constitutional Authority to Use Limited Military Force
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Volume 89, Issue 1, p. 84-87
ISSN: 2161-7953
The United States intervention in Haiti concludes another chapter in the development of the constitutional common law of presidential power. The Haiti experience further confirms the constitutional authority of the President to deploy armed forces into hostile foreign environments, and to initiate the use of force without prior, specific congressional authorization. The facts of the situation limit the "precedent" to small-scale interventions where the risk of major military engagements, either initially or upon escalation, is negligible. The cases of largescale hostilities, like Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, are quite different in fact and perhaps also in law. But the Haiti "precedent," coupled with the recent interventions in Grenada and Panama and innumerable examples earlier in history, strongly supports an unqualified presidential power to carry out small-scale military operations in support of foreign policy goals.
The Supreme Court and International Law: The Demise of Restatement Section 403
In: American journal of international law, Volume 89, Issue 1, p. 53-57
ISSN: 0002-9300
The President's Constitutional Authority to Use Limited Military Force
In: American journal of international law, Volume 89, Issue 1, p. 84-87
ISSN: 0002-9300
The Supreme Court and International Law: The Demise of Restatement Section 403
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Volume 89, Issue 1, p. 53-57
ISSN: 2161-7953
Arms Control by Committee: Managing Negotiations with the Russians. By George Bunn. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. 334. Index. $39.95
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Volume 88, Issue 2, p. 395-397
ISSN: 2161-7953
The President's Foreign Affairs Power
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Volume 83, Issue 4, p. 750-757
ISSN: 2161-7953
In the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, Congress set out to attack the imperial Presidency and to recapture its "historic constitutional role" in foreign policy. The tools of congressional activism included the National Commitments Resolution, the War Powers Resolution, the Case Act, the legislative veto over arms sales and nuclear exports, trade restrictions aimed at the Soviet Union and regulation of intelligence activities. In response, Presidents Carter and Reagan charged that Congress was invading presidential prerogatives. Joined by former executive branch officials and academic commentators, they saw an imperial Congress and believed the solution was a strengthened Presidency.
Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law. By Francis Anthony Boyle. Dobbs Ferry: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1987. Pp. xxii, 378. Index. $45.50
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Volume 83, Issue 1, p. 200-204
ISSN: 2161-7953
Arms Control and International Negotiation Theory
In: Stanford journal of international law, Volume 25, Issue 2, p. 543
ISSN: 0731-5082
The President's Foreign Affairs Power
In: American journal of international law, Volume 83, Issue 4, p. 750
ISSN: 0002-9300
Arms Control by Committee: Managing Negotiations with the Russians
In: American journal of international law, Volume 88, Issue 2, p. 395-396
ISSN: 0002-9300