It is an honor to deliver this Frankel Lecture, particularly in the company of two of my
intellectual polestars: Thomas Franck of New York University School of Law and Robert …

Revisionist scholars have recently challenged the hornbook rule that United States federal
courts shall determine questions of customary international law as federal law. The …

Treaties are being invoked increasingly in the courts, both in cases connected to the" war on
terror"'and in cases that would not otherwise be regarded as particularly international in …

The blue helmets of the UN peacekeeping forces, currently worn by more than 80,000
troops, can today be seen in eleven different theaters., Their arrival brings the anticipation of …

As indigenous peoples' have become actively engaged in the human rights movement
around the world, the sphere of international law, once deployed as a tool of imperial power …

Serious human rights crises persist despite recent democratization and progress in
international human rights law. This contradictory state suggests that a puzzle exists …

This Article analyzes the Supreme Court's 2004 decision in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain against
the backdrop of the post-Erie federal common law. The Article shows that, contrary to the …

A central tenet of American foreign relations law is that customary Z international law (" CIL")
has the domestic legal status of federal common law. In a recent article, we labeled this view …

Although courts and commentators have offered a wide range of theories regarding the
Alien Tort Statute'(ATS), the original meaning of the statute has remained elusive. As …

F OR decades, federal courts have cited this famous language for the proposition that
customary international law is part of federal common law,'the body of unwritten rules of …