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International Law

While honoring its treaty obligations and international customary law, the United States must remain vigilant against encroachments upon its sovereignty, especially legal challenges to the manner in which it prosecutes the War on Terrorism.

 

June 16, 2008
LOST in the Arctic: The U.S. Need Not Ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty to Get a Seat at the Table
By Steven Groves
(WebMemo #1957)
Last month at the Arctic Ocean Conference (AOC) in Ilulissat, Greenland, high-level diplomats from the United States and the other four nations that border the ...

 

May 1, 2008
The U.S. Should Reject the U.N. "Responsibility to Protect" Doctrine
By Steven Groves
(Backgrounder #2130)
Advocates of "responsibility to protect" believe that the international community has an obligation to intervene, militarily if necessary, in another country to prevent acts of ...

 

April 22, 2008
Furthering the U.N.'s Leftist Agenda: The U.N. CERD Committee Report
By Steven Groves
(WebMemo #1899)
In 1994, the U.S. Senate ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).  As a party to the CERD, ...

 

October 24, 2007
Why Reagan Would Still Reject the Law of the Sea Treaty
By Steven Groves
(WebMemo #1676)
Reagan's objections to LOST have been neither addressed nor resolved.

 

September 25, 2007
The Top Five Reasons Why Conservatives Should Oppose the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea
By Baker Spring, Steven Groves, and Brett D. Schaefer
(WebMemo #1638)
Twenty-five years after President Reagan rejected it, the convention remains a threat to U.S. interests.

 

September 24, 2007
Treatment of Detainees and Unlawful Combatants: Selected Writings on Guantanamo Bay
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., Steven Groves, and Janice Smith
(Special Report #17)
The research presented in The Heritage Foundation’s Guantanamo Bay collection clearly indicates that Congress should not interfere with the U.S. military’s policy of detaining unlawful ...

 

July 13, 2007
Dispelling Misconceptions: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Procedures Exceed the Requirements of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Law, and Customary International Law
By Steven Groves and Brian W. Walsh
(WebMemo #1556)
Contrary to the claims of the Bush Administration's critics, the detainees held at Guantanamo actually receive the most systematic and extensive procedural protections afforded to ...

 

June 7, 2007
U.N. Rapporteur Scheinin Issues Wrong Opinion on U.S. War on Terrorism
By Steven Groves
(WebMemo #1491)
Scheinin appears to have placed the agenda of the international human rights community over the right of the United States to defend itself against international ...

 

May 24, 2007
The U.S. Deserves a Fair Report from the U.N. Human Rights Envoy
By Steven Groves
(WebMemo #1470)
Will yet another U.N. official ignore U.S. sovereignty, law, and traditions in favor of vague international norms?

 

August 18, 2006
International Law and the Nation-State at the U.N.: A Guide for U.S. Policymakers
By Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin, Jr.
(Backgrounder #1961)
International law and domestic law are fundamentally different in their conception and application, and sovereignty is not some abstract concept that can redefined by an ...

 

 
 
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