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law.uga.edu: | Peter J. Spiro Professional Biographical Information: Peter J. Spiro joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in the Fall of 2004 as holder of the Dean and Virginia Rusk professorship in international law. Before coming to Georgia Law, Spiro spent 10 years at Hofstra University School of Law serving as a tenured professor and associate dean for faculty development. He specializes in international law, the constitutional aspects of U.S. foreign relations, and immigration and nationality law. Spiro’s recent scholarship includes: “Disaggregating U.S. Interests in International Law” in Law and Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2004), “Treaties, International Law, and Constitutional Rights” in the Stanford Law Review (2003) and “Globalization and the (Foreign Affairs) Constitution” in the Ohio State Law Journal (2002). He has also published articles in the Texas, Michigan, New York University, Fordham, Virginia, William & Mary and Emory law reviews and has contributed analysis to such publications as Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic. Additionally, Spiro is a frequent speaker in academic and policy forums on dual citizenship, the interaction of federal states with the international system, and the role of non-governmental organizations in international institutions. In 1993-94, he served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, during which he studied the growing role of NGOs in international decision-making. Spiro was awarded an Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation fellowship to study the law of American citizenship in 1997-98...

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[FairOpinion]

"For 40 years, from 1946 to 1986, the United States accepted the general jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in all kinds of cases against other nations that had also agreed to the court's jurisdiction."


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THIS is scary! It was about time to totally withdraw from letting other interfere in our sovereignty.

[CindyDawg]

Fine with me.

[processing please hold]

I'm spinning and twirling and tapping my feet. I'm singing and shouting and praising the Lord. (and Dubya)

[Doctor Stochastic]

We already (OK, since Bush) have an agreement with Mexico wherein we will return those wanted by Mexico to Mexico and Mexico will return those wanted by the the US to the US. (There is some paperwork, of course; each country requires a hearing.) I heard some Federal Marshal pointing out that Mexico had sent about 250 guys to Albuquerque (jail) under this plan. Formerly, criminals would hide on the Other Side of the Border to avoid capture.

We don't need anything but bilateral agreements. I'm not sure that a one-size fits all works well. The Mexican and Cuban legal systems don't interact with the US system in the same way. (Well, all are corrupt and subject to bribery, but I'm only considering the "formal" systems.)

[Heatseeker]

Secretary of State Rice hasn't even been on the job 2 months. Rock on Condi!!!

[clintonh8r]

Somewhere, Tom Daschle is very disappointed.

[longtermmemmory]

Have no fear, Ginsbery (form lead counsel of communist founded, ACLU) will impose the orders of the non-US courts via judicial fiat based on thin air.

[Graymatter]

"International adjudication is an important tool in a post-cold-war, post-9/11 world," Dean Koh said.

An important tool of...what?

[Fiddlstix]

[Coleus]

Some good news in the international arena.

[El Gato]

United States had withdrawn from the protocol that gave the tribunal jurisdiction

There's a Cowboy in the White House (and apparently a Cabayero over at the Justice Department, not mention the Iron Lady at State) Yee Haw!

[thoughtomator]

Peter J. Spiro, a law professor at the University of Georgia, said the withdrawal was unbecoming.

"It's a sore-loser kind of move," Professor Spiro said. "If we can't win, we're not going to play."

Professor Spiro's premise, of course, is that the United States should be the loser. The same goes for all international institutions. Come to think of it, putting the Professor in an institution might be the ideal solution.

[Lancey Howard]

LMAO!!! The New York Times really hates this!

[TapTheSource]

ping!

[Rocky]

"It's a sore-loser kind of move," Professor Spiro said. "If we can't win, we're not going to play."

Idiot. What does he think, we signed a blank check?

[CyberAnt]

"If we can't win .. we're not going to play"

EXACTLY!!!

[dmanLA]

Ping!

[Peach]

Yippee!

[HardStarboard]

Memo to the US Supreme Court:

American law applies in the United States.

International law applies elsewhere!

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