Foreign Relations Law

Your next course in foreign relations law can be as riveting as tomorrow's headlines when you adopt this timely revision. FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW: Cases and Materials, Second Edition, provides an up-to-the-minute examination of the constitutional and statutory law that regulates the conduct of contemporary U.S. foreign relations. The book features extensive coverage of current controversies, such as: The scope of the President's war powers, including his powers in the war on terrorism...
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Your next course in foreign relations law can be as riveting as tomorrow's headlines when you adopt this timely revision. FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW: Cases and Materials, Second Edition, provides an up-to-the-minute examination of the constitutional and statutory law that regulates the conduct of contemporary U.S. foreign relations. The book features extensive coverage of current controversies, such as: The scope of the President's war powers, including his powers in the war on terrorism the relationship between national foreign affairs powers, including the treaty power, and structural principles of federalism and separation of powers the validity of executive agreements the status of customary international law in the U.S. legal system, including its role in international human rights litigation in U.S. courts judicial reliance on foreign and international materials to interpret the Constitution the relationship between international tribunals and U.S. decisionmaking structures, including issues of delegation of authority and international comity extraterritorial application of federal law the authors stimulate understanding through: a mix of leading cases and non-case materials, such as excerpts of statutes, treaties, and Executive Branch pronouncements abundant notes and questions for each topic, including rich discussions of historical background, other relevant cases, and academic debates a cohesive theoretical framework that illuminates the increasingly important intersection between international law and U.S. domestic law; the importance of constitutional structure in regulating foreign affairs; the relevance of history to modern controversies; the ways the constitutional law of foreign affairs is often developed outside the courts; And The significance of the increasingly blurred line between domestic and foreign affairs Thoroughly updated, The Second Edition offers: broader coverage of the war on terrorism, including detailed treatment of the Executive's power to target, detain, and try terrorist enemy combatants excerpts of recent Supreme Court decisions, including Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (concerning the military detention of a U.S. citizen as an enemy combatant), Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain (the scope of human rights litigation under the Alien Tort Statute), Altmann v. Republic of Austria (the retroactive application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act), and American Ins. Assiquest;n v. Garamendi (the preemptive effect of executive agreements) condensed coverage of foreign sovereign immunity, now divided between Chapter 2 on the role of the courts in foreign affairs and Chapter 7 on international human rights litigation, integrating the material with related topics and making it easier to teach a revised Teacher's Manual with additional syllabi, a new section of sample exams, and answers to all the questions in the casebook