International Law Behind the Headlines Podcast
1) Episode 58 - The US UN Headquarters Agreement and the Visa Battle over Mahmoud Abbas
Former Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Larry Johnson joins the podcast to explain the legal underpinnings of this year’s controversy at the UN General Assembly over visas and visa restri...Show More
2) Episode 57 - International Obligations with Respect to Climate Change
In the past year, three international courts and tribunals—the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the Inter-American Court of Human Ri...Show More
3) Episode 56 - Interviewing the Court of Justice of the EU
In this episode with speak with Katerina Linos of UC Berkeley and Mark Pollack of Temple University about their project to interview the judges of the EU’s primary court system, and the implications f...Show More
4) Episode 55 - Peace Treaties
What does the law of treaties—and jus ad bellum—say about peace treaties? We discuss these issues, the history of peace treaties, and their possible future with Greg Fox, who has written widely on pea...Show More
5) Episode 54 - Is the Trump Administration’s Deep Seabed Mining Program Violating International Law?
On this episode Samantha Rowe, partner in the London office of Debevoise and Plimpton, joins the podcast to discuss the recent Trump executive order aimed at jumpstarting deep seabed mining, the role ...Show More
6) Episode 53 - The WTO in the Second Trump Administration
This episode considers the implications of a second Trump administration for international law and policy in the United States and explores the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Catherine ...Show More
7) Episode 52 - The United Nations in the Second Trump Administration
Richard Gowan, Director for UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group and one of the world’s chief UN watchers, joins the podcast to discuss what to expect with the new Trump tea...Show More
8) Episode 51 - Int'l Negotiations Around a Possible Convention on Crimes against Humanity
In this episode, Catherine is joined by Sean D. Murphy, Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law at George Washington University and former Member of the UN International Law Commission, where he ser...Show More
9) ASIL Episode 50 - Post-Election Series Part 1: The Future of NATO
In this first of a multi-part series exploring the implications a second Trump administration for international law and policy in the United States, Catherine is joined by Steve Hill, the Executive Se...Show More
10) ASIL Episode 49 - Extraterritorial Killings and Kidnappings
In this episode, featuring Professor Leila Sadat, we discuss the recent rise in violent extraterritorial action by states, such as the allegations by Canada that Indian agents killed a Sikh separatist...Show More