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Lecture summary: Barack Obama has promised to change American policy and politics in a host of areas. This talk will examine the prospects for change in the American relation to international law. In several areas, such as the treatment of detainees, candidate Obama explicitly described how he would change existing policies. But in other areas he has been silent and in still others his positions appear to resemble those of the Bush administration. By reviewing long-standing American policy toward several crucial international legal regimes, and by assessing the policy-makers President Obama has appointed to key foreign policy posts, the talk will seek to chart ways in which the American view of international law will likely change and where it is likely to remain the same.
Gregory H. Fox is an Associate Professor of Law at Wayne State University. He is the author of Humanitarian Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2008), the editor of Democratic Governance and International Law (Cambridge, 2000, with Brad Roth) and the editor of International Law Decisions in National Courts (Transnational, 1996, with Thomas M. Franck). He is also the author of numerous articles on various international legal subjects. He has taught at Chapman University and New York University law schools and held fellowships at Yale Law School, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law and from the MacArthur Foundation/Social Science Research Council. Professor Fox serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and is the co-Chair of ASIL’s International Organizations Interest Group. He is an expert consultant to the International Committee of the Red Cross for its project on Occupation Law. Professor Fox has served as co-counsel in several human rights cases in United States federal courts. He also served as counsel to the State of Eritrea in the Eritrea/Yemen Hanish Islands arbitration.
Curriculum Vitae: Professor Gregory H. Fox
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