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Via the Freedom of Information Act, I recently obtained a copy of a previously unreleased MOU in which the US Department of Commerce and the PRC Ministry of Commerce agreed to promote subnational engagement on trade and investment. The MOU … Continue reading →

I just posted a draft of a new paper: “The International Commitments of the Fifty States.” The paper’s forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review; here’s the abstract: U.S. law allocates power to conduct foreign relations primarily to the federal government, … Continue reading →

I recently posted a new paper on foreign governmental knowledge of U.S. foreign relations law. The paper explains why it’s advantageous for the U.S. government to know whether foreign governments are knowledgeable about this area of U.S. law, and it … Continue reading →

I just posted a new draft on the topic of U.S. ambassadorial appointments. The paper uses documents I obtained from the State Department through requests and litigation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to develop an account of the … Continue reading →

I just posted a revised version of a new article on the role of the president and the Senate in the appointment of special envoys and other types of irregular diplomatic agents. The piece will be coming out in the Duke Law Journal; … Continue reading →

The Marquette Law Review hosted a fantastic symposium on the “ethics of scholarship” back in September and will be publishing an issue dedicated to the topic in the coming months. My short contribution addresses the ethics of a practice that appears to … Continue reading →

I just posted a draft of a chapter that I’m contributing to International Law as Behavior (Harlan G. Cohen & Timothy Meyer eds., forthcoming Cambridge University Press), an edited volume that will offer interdisciplinary analyses on a variety of topics in international … Continue reading →

Below is a short series of posts on the issue of whether it’s consistent with the Appointments Clause for the President to appoint treaty negotiators, such as those who would renegotiate NAFTA, without first obtaining case-specific advice and consent from the … Continue reading →