Leighton Professor of Law
Northwestern University

OFFICE:

Northwestern Unversity School of Law
357 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Home Phone: (312) 587-8997
Office Phone: (312) 503-8474 Fax: (312) 587-9969
E-Mail: a-damato[at]northwestern.edu

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:

January 10, 1937. New York City.

EDUCATION:

A.B., Cornell University, 1958.
J.D., Harvard University, 1961.
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968.
Social Science Council Research Fellow in Nonparametric Statistics,
University of Michigan, 1968.

ACADEMIC HONORS:

Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Cornell University, 1957.
Distinction and High Honors, Cornell University, 1958.
Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1959-61.
Magna cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1961.
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1967-68.
Certificate of Merit, American Society of International Law for
Perkins-Bauer Teaching Professorship, Northwestern University School of Law, 1985.
Carl H. Fulda Award 1987-1988 for Outstanding Achievement in International Law,
University of Texas, 1988.
Stanford Clinton Sr. Research Professorship, Northwestern University School of Law,
1989.
Leighton Chair, Northwestern University, 1990-date.
Robert H. Marx Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, 1996.
Human Rights Advocacy Award, Northwestern University Center for International
Human Rights, 1998
Fellow, NU Center for the Humanities, 1999-2000

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Wellesley College:
Instructor in Political Science, 1963-66.

University of Oregon:
Visiting Professor of Law, 1973-74.

Cardozo Law School (Yeshiva University):
Visiting Professor of Law, Fall Semester 1986.

Northwestern University:
Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science, 1968-1971.
Associate Professor of Law, 1971-74.
Lecturer on Professional Ethics, School of Medicine, 1976-1991.
Professor of Law, 1974-date.

Courses taught include: Constitutional Law, Justice, International Law,
Environmental Law, Torts, Jurisprudence, Legal Ethics, International Human Rights,
International Intellectual Property, National Security
 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:

American Bar Association. Member of the Council, Section of International Law
and Practice, 1985-88. Chair, Committee on International Courts, 1984-86.
Co-Chair, InterBar Study Group on the Independence of Lawyers and Judges,1985-87.

American Journal of International Law. Board of Editors, 1981-1994, 2006-date

American Society of International Law. Chair, 1985 Annual Meeting. Chair,
Nominating Committee 1980. Member of the Executive Council, 1980-83. Chair:
Ad Hoc Committee on Compulsory Jurisdiction of the World Court, 1984.
Member and Advisory Editor, Guiding Principles of International Law
Project (MacArthur Foundation), 1989. Representative to the Earth Summit,
Rio de Janeiro, 1992. Chair, Committee on Governance, 1995. Co-chair, Task Force
on Terrorism and International Law, 2002-

American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Member, 1972-.

Association of American Law Schools. Secretary (1984) and President (1986),
International Law Section. President (1984), Jurisprudence Section.

Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago Committee, 1999-

Human Rights Interest Group, American Society of International Law.
Founder (1985), Chair, 1985-1997.

International Law Association. Member, 1982-.

International League for Human Rights. Member, 1971-1990.

Journal of International Legal Studies, Advisory Editor, 1995-.

Jurist http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/, Contributing Editor, 2001-

Jurist Hotline http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/, Contributor, 2006-

Lawyer's Committee on Nuclear Policy, Member of the Consultative Council, 1982-.

Transnational/Brill Publishers Inc., Board of Editors, 1984-.

World Habeas Corpus. Executive Director, 1975-1984.
 

BIOGRAPHIES IN:

Who's Who in America.
Who's Who in American Law.
Who's Who in American Education.
Who's Who in Public International Law.

PRINCIPAL LITIGATION:

Lead counsel for plaintiff, Lars Erik Gustav Lindstrom v. Jerome F. Graber, Warden,
(203 F.3d 470, C.A.7 (Ill.), 7^th Cir. Ct. of Appeals, 1999-2001) (international extradition)

Lead counsel for defendant, Prosecutor v. Kovacevic, International Criminal Tribunal
for Former Yugoslavia 1998 (IT-97-24-T) (first case charging a Serb with genocide).

Co-Counsel for relator, State of Missouri ex rel. Rashid v. The Honorable Bernhardt
C. Drumm, 824 S.W.2d 497 (E. Dist. 1992).

Counsel for plaintiffs, Nelson v. Saudi Arabia, 923 F.2d 1528 (11th Cir. 1991) (first
American decision finding subject-matter jurisdiction over foreign sovereign for
tort committed in sovereign's territory).

Counsel for Applicant, Kamasinski v. Austria, European Court of Human Rights
(1989) (first American attorney to argue before this court).

Counsel for plaintiff, Branion v. Gramly, 855 F.2d 1266 (7th Cir. 1988).

Counsel for appellant, Carmichael v. United Technologies Corp., 835 F.2d 10
(5th Cir. 1988).

Counsel for plaintiff, Flynn v. Secretary of State George Shultz, 748 F.2d 1186
(7th Cir. 1985).

Co-Counsel for plaintiffs, Von Dardel v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 623 F.
Supp.246 (D.D.C. 1985) (the "Raoul Wallenberg Case")  

Counsel for plaintiff, Frolova v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
558 F. Supp. 358 (N.D. Ill. 1983), 761 F.2d 370 (7th Cir. 1985).

Co-Counsel for plaintiffs, Ethiopia & Liberia v. Union of South Africa,
International Court of Justice, 1966 ICJ Rep. 6.

Counsel for defendants-appellants, United States v. Baranski, 484 F.2d 556
(7th Cir. 1973) (Section of Military Selective Service Act held unconstitutional)
 

PUBLISHED WORKS

A. BOOKS

International Law Today: A Handbook (with Jennifer Abbassi) Thomson-West (2006)

International Law Sources: Collected Papers, Volume 3 (2004)

International Intellectual Property Coursebook (with Doris Estelle Long) (2000)
with 2002 Supplement to Coursebook and 2002 Documents Supplement to Coursebook

The Alien Tort Claims Act: An Analytical Anthology (with Ralph G. Steinhardt) (1999)

European Union Law Anthology (with Karen Kole) (1998)

International Intellectual Property Law (with Doris Estelle Long, 1997)

International Law Studies: Collected Papers Volume Two (1997)

Analytic Jurisprudence Anthology (1996)

Introduction to Law and Legal Thinking (1996)

International Intellectual Property Anthology (with Doris Estelle Long) (1996)

International Environmental Law Anthology (with Kirsten Engel) (1995)

International Law and Political Reality: Collected Papers Volume One (1995)

International Law Coursebook (1994)

International Law Anthology (1994)

Justice and the Legal System (with Arthur Jacobson) (1992)

How to Understand the Law (1989)

International Law: Process and Prospect (l987. Second edition, 1995)

Jurisprudence: A Descriptive and Normative Analysis of Law(1984)

Assyrian Case for Autonomy (1982)

International Law and World Order (1980) (with Burns Weston & Richard Falk).
Second edition, 1990

Basic Documents in International Law and World Order (1980) (with Burns
Weston & Richard Falk). Second edition, 1990

Desegregation from Brown to Alexander: An Exploration of Supreme
Court Strategies (1978) (with Stephen Wasby & Rosemary Metrailer)

Environment and the Law of the Sea (1974) (with John L. Hargrove)

The Judiciary and Vietnam (1972) (with Robert O'Neil)

The Concept of Custom in International Law (1971) The author has a few copies of this book, which is out of print, and would be willing to donate a copy to a major library which does not have a copy in its collection

The Realities of Vietnam (1968) (with Christopher Beal)

The Legality of the Use of Force Short of War (1963) (with Robert von Mehren)
 

B. BOOKS UNDER CONTRACT

International Law as a Complex Self-Regulating System (publication expected 2008)

The Concept of Custom in International Law: 2nd Revised and Expanded Edition
(publication expected 2008)

International Law Litigation: Collected Papers, Vol. 4 (publication expected 2010)

CHAPTERS

International Soft Law, Hard Law, and Coherence (to be published as a chapter in The Philosophy of International Law, Oxford University Press, late 2008) Also SSRN Link
 
International Law as a Unitary System (to be published as a chapter in Handbook of International Law, Routledge Publishers, late 2008). Also SSRN NULS Public Law Research Paper, no.08-02

Defenses to War Crimes : A Conceptual Overview, in M. Cherif Bassiouni, ed, International Criminal Law, 3rd edition, Transnational/Brill, 2008 (In process); also in NULS Public Law and Legal Theory Series, No. 07-04 (SSRN)

On the Legitimacy of International Institutions, in Legitimacy in International Law, pp. 87-92, eds. A.von Bogdandy and R.Wolfram (Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Bd. 194), Springer Verlag, 2008, also in NULS Public Law Research Paper, No. 06-32, SSRN

International Law from a Machiavellian Perspective, in The Realist Tradition and Contemporary International Relations, W. David Clinton ed., Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, pp. 82-95 (2007)

International Law as an Autopoietic System, pp.335-399 in Rüdiger Wolfrum & Volker Röben (eds.),
(Max-Planck Institut für ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht Beitrage 177),
Developments of International Law in Treaty Making, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2005.

International Law, Cybernetics, and Cyberspace, in Computer Network Attack
and International Law (Naval War College International Law Studies, v.76) 59-71 (2002)

On Genocide, in International Law across the Spectrum of Conflict: Essays in Honour of
Professor L.C. Green on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday (Naval War College
International Law Studies, v.75) 119-130 (2000)

Megatrends in the Use of Force, in The Law of Armed Conflict: Into the Next Millenium
(Naval War College International Law Studies, Volume 71) 1-16 (1998)

Purposeful Ambiguity as International Legal Strategy: The Two China Problem,
in Jerzy Makarczyk (ed.). Theory of International Law at the Threshold of the
21st Century: Essays in Honour of Krzysztof Skubiszewski 109-121 (1996).

The Relation of the Individual to the State in the Era of Human Rights, in M. Gibney
(ed.), World Justice? U.S. Courts and International Human Rights 161 (1991).

National Prosecution for International Crimes, in 3 M.C.Bassiouni (ed.), International
Criminal Law, 2d ed. 217 (1999).

United States Experience at the International Court of Justice (with Mary Ellen
O'Connell), in L.F. Damrosch (ed.), The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads
403 (1987).

Sorting Out the World Court's Role in Compulsory Jurisdiction, in
A.C. Arend (ed.), The United States and the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the
International Court of Justice 227 (1986).

The Law-Generating Mechanisms of the Law of the Sea Conference and
Convention, in J.M. Van Dyke (ed.), Consensus and Confrontation: The United
States and the Law of the Sea Convention 125 (1985).

The Enforcement of Norms and Rules with Respect to Nonparties, in J.M. Van Dyke
(ed.) Consensus and Confrontation: The United States and the Law of the Sea
Convention 488 (1985).

The Frolova Case, in Contemporary Issues in International Law: Essays in Honor of
Louis B. Sohn 89 (Thomas Buergenthal ed. 1984)

What "Counts" as Law?, in Law-Making in the Global Community 83 (Nicholas G.
Onuf ed. 1982).

The Relevance of Machiavelli to Contemporary World Politics, in The Political
Calculus: Essays on Machiavelli's Philosophy 209 (Anthony Parel ed. 1972)

The American Constitution and the Air War, in the Air War in Indochina 113
(Raphael Littauer & Norman Uphoff eds. 1972), reprinted in 9 Transaction (July
1972) and 142 Current (July 1972).

The Politics of Ecosuicide, in The Politics of Ecosuicide 1 (Leslie Roos ed. 1971).

ARTICLES

Why is International Law Binding? 7/8/08 SSRN link

Natural Law: A Libertarian View (to be published in FIU Law Review, v.1, 2008)
Also SSRN Northwestern Public Law Research Paper, no. 08-03

Waterboarding: The Key Question for Mukasey, Jurist 10/19/07

Independence for Kosovo? Jurist 6/16/07 Bepress link

Kosovo: The UN Plans a Human Rights Disaster, Jurist 3/27/07; also in
17 no.2 Survey of East European Law 1-3 (2007)

True Confessions? The Amazing Tale of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Jurist, 3/16/07

Defenses to War Crimes: A Conceptual Overview, NULS Public Law and Legal Theory Series, No. 07-04, SSRN

International Humanitarian Law: Prospects, edited by John Carey et al. (v. 3 of series),
Foreword, pp. xi-xii (Transnational, 2006)

The Interdisciplinary Turn in Legal Education, NULS Public Law Research Paper, No. 06-32, SSRN

Israel's Borders under International Law, NULS Public Law Research Paper, No. 06-34, SSRN

Bolton in Sheep's Clothing, Jurist, 11/20/06

Pyongyang and Proliferation: The UN North Korea Resolution, Jurist 10/17/06

The UN Mideast Ceasefire Resolution Paragraph-by-Paragraph, Jurist 8/13/06

Israel's new ground offensive and the UN peacekeeping plan, Jurist 8/9/06

A proposed UN resolution on the Middle East, Jurist 8/7/06 Bepress link

The Draft UN Middle East Ceasefire Resolution, Jurist 8/6/06

Qana, War Crimes, and the Pending UN Resolution on Lebanon, Jurist 7/31/06

War Crimes and the Mideast Conflict, Jurist, July 24, 2006

International Law Aspects of the Mideast 'War', Jurist, July 18, 2006

A Quick Primer on Logic and Rationality, NULS Public Law Research Paper, no. 913016, SSRN, 6/2/06

Porn Up, Rape Down, NULS Public Law Research Paper No. 913013, SSRN; also in Elizabeth Schroeder, Taking Sides: Clashing Views In Family and Personal Relationships, 8th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2007, pp.253-256; and in “Porn Up, Rape Down” 2 (no. 3) The Original Law Review, pp. 91-99 (2006)

The Need for a Theory of International Law, NULS Working Paper, SSRN, 7/18//06

The Contribution of the Infield Fly Rule to Western Civilization (and Vice Versa),
100 Northwestern University Law Review (Centennial Issue) 189-200 (2006) Word doc Bepress link

The West Bank Wall: Part I: Jurisdiction, Jurist, Feb. 24, 2004

International Humanitarian Law: Challenges, edited by John Carey et al. (v. 2 of series), Foreword, pp. xiii-xviii (Transnational, 2004)

Trying Saddam: The Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes against Humanity, Jurist, Dec. 15, 2003

Secrecy in Courts, 6 The Long Term View: A Journal of Informed Opinion 23-25 (2003)

Why Be Fair When You Can Have Welfare? (August 2003). Public Law and Legal Theory Paper,Working Paper 23. Bepress Legal Repository

International Humanitarian Law: Origins, ed. by J. Carey et al, (v.1 of series), Foreword pp.xvii-ix (Transnational, 2003)

The Road Map: Looking for Peace in the Middle East, Jurist, May 2, 2003

International Law, in The Oxford Companion to American Law, pp. 423-427 (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Legal Status of Nonhuman Animals (featured in panel discussions II and III of
5th Annual Conference on Animals and the Law), 8 Animal Law 19-60 (2002)

There is No Norm of Intervention or Non-Intervention in International Law,
7 International Legal Theory 33-40 (2001)

Milosevic's Witnesses, Jurist, February 9, 2002

Observations on the Forthcoming Milosevic Trial, Jurist, August 3, 2001

International Law and Regulation of the Internet, 89 Kentucky Law
Journal 575-579 (2001) Word

Defending a Person Charged with Genocide, 1 Chicago Journal of International
Law 459-469 (2000) Word

The Effect of Legal Theories on Judicial Decisions, 74 Chicago-Kent
Law Review 517-527 (1999) Word

Brave New Scholarship, 49 Journal of Legal Education 143-149 (1999)

Globalizing Adoption: Linking Children and Adoptive Parents, 116 Christian
Century 668-669 (1999)

A Brief Review of the Indictment against Milosevic and Others of 27 May 1999
33 (10) United Nations Law Reports 133-136 (June 1999)

International Law and Kosovo, 33 United Nations Law Reports 112 (1999)

Legal and Moral Dimensions of Churchill's Failure to Warn, 20 Cardozo Law
Review 561-567 (1998) Word

Customary International Law: A Reformulation, 4 International Legal Theory 1-6
(1998)

Law and War: A Doctrine of Deterrence, 35 UN Chronicle 52-53 (1998)

Cross-Country Adoption: A Call to Action, 73 Notre Dame Law Review 1239 (1998)
(Propter Honoris Respectum issue honoring Professor Glendon). Word

Israel's Air Strike against the Osiraq Reactor: A Retrospective, 10 Temple International
and Comparative Law Journal 259-264 (1996) Word

The Injustice of Dynamic Statutory Interpretation, 64 U. Cin. L. Rev. 911-935
(1996) Word

Human Rights as Part of Customary International Law: A Plea for Change of Paradigms, 25
Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 47-98 (1995) Word

The Moral and Legal Basis for Sanctions, 19 Fletcher Forum 19 (1995).

World Conferences and the Cheapening of International Norms, 1 St. Louis-Warsaw
Transatlantic Law Journal 9 (1995) Word

The Path of International Law, 1 Journal of International Legal Studies 1 (1995) Word

Peace v. Accountability in Bosnia, 88 American Journal of International Law 500 (1994) Word
Bepress link

On the Connection Between Law and Justice, 26 University of California at Davis
Law Review 527 (1993), reprinted in part in Joel Feinberg & Hyman Gross
(eds.), Philosophy of Law 19-30 (5th ed. 1995)

Post-Revolutionary Law and Economics: A Foreward to the Symposium, 20 Hofstra
Law Review 757 (1992) Word

Counterintuitive Consequences of "Plain Meaning," 33 Arizona Law Review
529 (1991)

International Criminal Law and the Macro-Micro Problem, 15 Nova Law Review
343 (1991).

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Jus Cogens! 6 Connecticut Journal of International Law 1
(1991)

Torture as Raison d'Etat, 10 Criminal Justice Ethics 40 (1991)

Rethinking Legal Education, 74 Marquette Law Review 1 (1990)

Whales: Their Emerging Right to Life (co-author Sudhir K. Chopra), 85 American
Journal of International Law 21 (1991)

Self-Regulation of Judicial Misconduct Could be Mis-Regulation, 89 Michigan Law
Review 609 (1990)

Harmful Speech and the Culture of Indeterminacy, 32 William & Mary Law Review
207 (1990)

Pragmatic Indeterminacy, 85 Northwestern Law Review 148 (1990)

Aspects of Deconstruction: Refuting Indeterminacy With One Bold Thought,
85 Northwestern Law Review 113 (1990)

The Imposition of Attorney Sanctions for Claims Arising From the U.S. Air Raid
on Libya, 84 American Journal of International Law 705 (1990) Word

Aspects of Deconstruction: Thought Control in Xanadu, 84 Northwestern Law
Review 1086 (1990)

Aspects of Deconstruction: The Failure of the Word "Bird," 84 Northwestern Law
Review 536 (1990)

The Ultimate Injustice: When a Court Misstates the Facts, 11 Cardozo Law Review
1313 (1990

Aspects of Deconstruction: The "Easy Case" of the Under-aged President, 84
Northwestern Law Review 250 (1990)

The Invasion of Panama was a Lawful Response to Tyranny, 84 American Journal of
International Law 516 (1990) Word

Do We Owe a Duty to Future Generations to Preserve the Global Environment?
84 American Journal of International Law 190 (1990) Word

A New Political Truth: Exposure to Sexually Violent Materials Causes Sexual
Violence 31 William & Mary Law Review 575 (1990)

International Law in the Curriculum, 2 Pace Yearbook of International Law 83
(1990).

Can Any Legal Theory Constrain Any Judicial Decision? 43 University of Miami
Law Review 513 (1989)

Is International Law Part of Natural Law? 9 Vera Lex 8 (1989).

As Gregor Samsa Awoke One Morning from Uneasy Dreams He Found
Himself Transformed into an Economic Analyst of Law, 83 Northwestern
Law Review 1012 (1989) Word Gregor Samsa Replies Word

International Law in the Public Forum: The New York Times and the
Libyan Chemical Weapons Plant, 83 American Journal of International Law
(1989) Word

Can Legislatures Constrain Judicial Interpretation of Statutes? 75 Virginia Law
Review 561 (1989)

What Does it Mean To Be an Internationalist? 10 Michigan Journal of International
Law 102 (1989).

The Relation of the Individual to the State in the Era of Human Rights, 24 Texas
Journal of International Law 1 (1989)

Custom and Treaty: A Response to Professor Weisburd, 21 Vanderbilt Journal of
International Law 459 (1988).

A Brief Rejoinder, 21 Vanderbilt Journal of International Law 489 (1988).

State Responsibility for the Exportation of Nuclear Power Technology (with Kirsten
Engel), 74 Virginia Law Review 1011 (1988)

The Theory of Customary International Law, 1988 Proceedings American Society of
International Law 242 Word

International Human Rights at the Close of the Twentieth Century, 22 International
Lawyer 167 (1988).

The Alien Tort Statute and the Founding of the Constitution, 82 American Journal of
International Law 62 (1988) Word

The Decline and Fall of Law Teaching in the Age of Student Consumerism, 37
Journal of Legal Education 461 (1987)

The President and International Law: A Missing Dimension, 81 American Journal of
International Law 375 (1987) Word

Trashing Customary International Law, 81 American Journal of International Law
101 (1987) Word

Superior Orders vs. Command Responsibility, 80 American Journal of International
Law 604 (1986) Word

Public International Law as a Career, 1 American University Journal of International
Law and Policy 5 (1986)

The United States Should Accept, by a New Declaration, the General Compulsory
Jurisdiction of the World Court, 80 American Journal of International Law 331 (1986) Word

Whither Jurisprudence? 6 Cardozo Law Review 971 (1985)

The Moral Dilemma of Positivism, 20 Valparaiso University Law Review 43 (1985)

Nicaragua and International Law: The "Academic" and the "Real", 79 American
Journal of International Law 657 (1985) Word

Is International Law Really "Law"? 79 Northwestern Law Review 1293 (1985)

Modifying U.S. Acceptance of the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the World Court,
79 American Journal of International Law 385 (1985) Word

Judge Bork's Concept of the Law of Nations is Seriously Mistaken, 79 American
Journal of International Law 92 (1985) together with Professor Rubin's Reply Does
Not Live Up to Its Title, 79 AJIL 112 (1985) Word

Three Models of Legal Ethics (co-author Edward J. Eberle), 27 St. Louis University
Law Journal 761 (1983)

The Purposive Dimension of International Law, 9 Brooklyn Journal of International
Law 311 (1983)

The Frolova Case: A Practitioner's View, 1 New York Law School Human Rights
Annual 33 (1983)

Israel's Air Strike Upon the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor, 77 American Journal of
International Law 584 (1983)

An Alternative to the Law of the Sea Convention, 77 American Journal of
International Law 281 (1983) Word

The Concept of Human Rights in International Law, 82 Columbia Law Review 1110
(1982) Word

Legal Uncertainty, 71 California Law Review 1 (1983) Word

Lon Fuller and Substantive Natural Law, 26 American Journal of Jurisprudence 202
(1981)

The Speluncean Explorers—Further Proceedings, 32 Stanford Law Review 467
(1980), reprinted in part in Joel Feinberg & Hyman Gross (eds.), Philosophy of
Law 549 (5th ed. 1995) Word

Judicial Legislation, 1 Cardozo Law Review 63 (1979) Word

Disqualification of Counsel—The Westinghouse Litigation, 61 Chicago Bar Record 88
(1979).

Are Human Rights Good for International Business?1 Northwestern Journal of
International Law & Business 22 (1979) Word

Contemporary Views of the Sources of International Law: The Effect of U.S. Resolutions on Emerging Legal Norms, 1979 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 300

The Limits of Legal Realism, 87 Yale Law Journal 468 (1978) Word

Can/Should Computers Replace Judges? 11 Georgia Law Review 1277 (1977) Word

The Functions of Oral Argument in the United States Supreme Court (with Stephen
L. Wasby & Rosemary Metrailer), 62 Quarterly Journal of Speech 410 (1976)

Obligation to Obey the Law: A Study of the Death of Socrates, 49 Southern
California Law Review 1079 (1976) Word

Towards a Reconciliation of Positivism and Naturalism: A Cybernetic Approach to
a Problem of Jurisprudence, 14 Western Ontario Law Review 171 (1975)

The "Bad Samaritan" Paradigm, 70 Northwestern Law Review 798 (1975) Word

International Law and Rawls' Theory of Justice, 5 Denver Journal of International
Law 525 (1975)

Elmer's Rule: A Jurisprudential Dialogue, 60 Iowa Law Review 1129 (1975) Word

The Impact of Impact Statements Upon Agency Responsibility: A Prescriptive
Analysis (with James H. Baxter), 59 Iowa Law Review 195 (1973)

Written Statement of the International League for the Rights of Man Filed with the
International Court of Justice in the Namibia Question (with Arthur Rovine),
4 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 335 (1971).

The Content of International Law as Psychological Data, 10 Columbia Journal of
Transnational Law 66 (1971).

Environmental Degradation and Legal Action, 26 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 24
(1970), reprinted in The Environmental Law Handbook (Norman Laudau & Paul
Rheingold eds. 1971).

Brief for Constitutional Lawyers' Committee on Undeclared War as Amicus Curiae,
Massachusetts v. Laird (with Richard Cummings, Harrop Freeman, Jon M. Van
Dyke, Lawrence Sager & Lawrence Velvel), 17 Wayne Law Review 79 (1971)

The Relation of Theories of Jurisprudence to International Politics and Law,
27 Washington & Lee Law Review 257 (1970)

The Massachusetts Antiwar Bill, 42 New York State Bar Journal 639 (1970).

The Authoritativeness of Custom in International Law, 53 Rivista Di Diritto
Internazionale 491 (1970)

On Consensus, 8 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 104 (1970)

Massachusetts in the Federal Courts: The Constitutionality of the Vietnam War,
4 Journal of Law Reform 11 (1970)

Manifest Intent and the Generation by Treaty of Customary Rules of International
Law, 64 American Journal of International Law 892 (1970)

Machiavelli's View of International Law, 5 Justinian Law Journal 31 (1970).

War Crimes and Vietnam: The Nuremburg Defense and the Military Service
Resister (with Harvey L. Gould & Larry D. Woods), 57 California Law Review
1055 (1969), reprinted in 3 The Vietnam War and International Law 407 (Richard
A. Falk ed. 1972)

Vietnam and Public International Law, 2 Vanderbilt International Law Review 100
(1969).

The Concept of Special Custom in International Law, 63 American Journal of
International Law 211 (1969)

Consent, Estoppel and Reasonableness: Three Challenges to Universal
International Law, 10 Virginia Journal of International Law 1 (1969) Word

Wanted: A Comprehensive Theory of Custom in International Law, 4 Texas
International Law Forum 28 (1968).

Psychological Constructs in Foreign Policy Prediction, 11 Journal of Conflict
Resolution 294 (1967) Word

Legal and Political Strategies of the South West Africa Litigation, 4 Law in
Transition Quarterly 8 (1967), reprinted in The South West Africa/Nambia
Dispute: Documents and Scholarly Writings (Jon Dugard ed. 1973)

International Law—Content and Function: A Review, 11 Journal of Conflict
Resolution 504 (1967).

Legal Aspects of the French Nuclear Tests, 61 American Journal of International Law
66 (1967)

The Inductive Approach Revisited, 6 Indian Journal of International Law 509 (1966)

The Bantustan Proposals for South West Africa, 4 Journal of Modern African Studies
177 (1966)

Apartheid in South West Africa: Five Claims of Equality, 1 Portia Law Journal 59
(1966)

Apartheid: Catalyst at the United Nations, 83 Christian Century 1303 (1966).

The Neo-Positivist Concept of International Law, 59 American Journal of
International Law 321 (1965)

Deterring the French Tests (with Eleanor Roberts), 34 The Correspondent 55 (1965).

Treaties as a Source of General Rules of International Law, 3 Harvard International
Law Journal 1 (1962)

E. SHORTER ARTICLES AND COMMENTARY

Old Approaches to International Law, 36 Harvard Journal of International Law 509
(1995) Word

Minutes of the Faculty Meeting, 1992 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 359 (Reprinted in Amicus humoriae : an anthology of legal humor) Word

Censorship, American Bar Association Journal, May 1989, p. 42.

The Ultimate Critical Legal Studies Article: A Fissiparous Analysis, 37 Journal of
Legal Education 369 (1987).

The Authority of the United States Executive to Interpret, Articulate or Violate the
Norms of International Law, 80 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 297 (1986) Word

The World Court, 80 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 214 (1986) Word

Address on Terrorism and International Law, 8 Whittier Law Review 789 (1986).

Professor Rubin's Reply Does Not Live Up to its Title, 79 American Journal of
International Law 112 (1985).

Should the United States Reconsider its Acceptance of World Court Jurisdiction?
79 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 99 (1985) Word

Is Equality a Totally Empty Idea? 81 Michigan Law Review 600 (1983) Word

Theory & Reality in International Law, 75 Proceedings of the American Society of
International Law 166 (1981)

Professor Nagel's Reflections on Cardozo, 2 Cardozo Law Review 589 (1981)

Comment on Professor Falk's Remarks, 75 Proceedings of the American Society of
International Law 279 (1981)

Contemporary Views of the Sources of International Law: The Effect of U.N.
Resolutions on Emerging Legal Norms, 73 Proceedings of the American
Society of International Law 300 (1979)

Professor Posner's Lecture on Privacy, 12 Georgia Law Review 497 (1978)

Watergate and Legal Education: A Comment, 27 Journal of Legal Education 592
(1976)

An Overview of the Problem, in Who Protects The Ocean? 1 (John L. Hargrove ed.
1975)

Comments, in Law and Responsibility in Warfare 176 (Peter Trooboff ed. 1975)

Comments, Roscoe Pound—American Trial Lawyers Foundation, The Powers of the
Presidency 34 (1975)

Congress, The Constitution and Presidential War, 9 Society 4 (1972).

The Interpretation of Treaties, 63 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 135 (1969)

Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, 30 The Correspondent 88 (1964)
 

F. BOOK REVIEWS

Rebecca J. Cook, Human Rights of Women: National and International
Perspectives, 89 American Journal of International Law 840 (1995) Word

Louis Henkin et al., Right v. Might: International Law and the Use of Force,
85 American Journal of International Law 201 (1991) Word

Maarten Bos: A Methodology of International Law, 9 Maryland Journal of
International Law and Trade 207(1985).

The Structure and Process of International Law: Essays in Legal Philosophy
Doctrine and Theory, 34 Journal of Legal Education 747 (1984).

Human Rights, European Politics, and the Helsinki Accord: The Documentary
Evolution of the Conference on Security and Co-Operation in Europe 1973-
1975 (6 vols.), 78 American Journal of International Law 960 (1984) Word

G.J.H. von Hoff: Rethinking the Sources of International Law, 78 American Journal
of International Law 937 (1984) Word

The Practice of Japan in International Law, 1961-1970, 78 American Journal of
International Law 733 (1984) Word

Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations? 91 Yale Law Journal 1725
(1982). Word

Essays on the Development of the International Legal Order, 76 AJIL 188 (1982)

Paul Ramsey: Ethics at the Edges of Life, 2 Cardozo Law Review 655 (1981)

United States Legislation on Foreign Relations and International Commerce, 71
American Journal of International Law 200 (1978).

E.B.F. Midgley: The Natural Law Tradition and the Theory of International
Relations, 72 American Political Science Review 804 (1978).

Philip C. Jessup: The Price of International Justice, 69 American Political Science
Review 375 (1975).

Edgar Bodenheimer: Power, Law, and Society, A Study of the Will to Power and
the Will to Law, Washington University Law Quarterly 375 (1974).

What Washington Said: Administration Rhetoric and the Vietnam War, 68
American Journal of International Law 793 (1974).

H.W.A. Thirlway: International Customary Law and Codification, 67 American
Journal of International Law 357 (1973).

Gwendolyn B. Folsom: Legislative History, 67 American Journal of International Law
603 (1973).

Against the Crime of Silence, 57 California Law Review 1033 (1969).

Lesotho, Botswana, and Swaziland, 63 American Political Science Review 241 (1969).

B.S. Murty, Propaganda and World Public Order, 62 American Political Science
Review 1392 (1968).

Martin Shapiro: Law and Politics in the Supreme Court, 53 California Law Review
713 (1965).

Myres S. McDougal and Associates: Studies in World Public Order, 75 Harvard Law
Review 458 (1961). Word

G. ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
Justice, in The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia

Indeterminacy,in The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia

Anglo-Saxon Law (co-author Stephen B. Presser), The Guide to American Law:
Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia.

Civil Rights Movement, The Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia.

Commonwealth, World Book Encyclopedia.

Condominium, World Book Encyclopedia.

Disobbedienza Civile, Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali.

Domestic Jurisdiction, Encyclopedia of Public International Law.

Enclave, World Book Encyclopedia.

Exile, World Book Encyclopedia.

Fiat, World Book Encyclopedia.

Free City, World Book Encyclopedia.

Good Faith, Encyclopedia of Public International Law.

Intertemporal Law, Encyclopedia of Public International Law.

Llewellyn, Karl, The Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia.

Mandated Territory, World Book Encyclopedia.

Nation, World Book Encyclopedia.

Protectorate, World Book Encyclopedia.

States' Rights Movement, The Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia.

Tonkin Gulf Resolution, The Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia.

Warren, Earl, The Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia.

Viceroy, World Book Encyclopedia.

H. MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS

Hedge Funds Race to the Bottom: Letter, Economists' Voice, June, 2008

Too Much Late-night Buffoonery at Robert Blake's Expense,
Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune, March 30, 2005, p.19

The Law of War—Selected Proceedings, 15 So. Ill. U.L.J. 563 (1991).

Millions for Memorials But Not a Penny for Something Useful, Op- Ed, Chicago
Tribune, Feb. 9, 1990, p. 19 col. 1 (on Wallenberg case).

Art, the American Flag, and our Culture of Freedom, Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune, Mar.
8, 1989, p. 17 col. 1.

Legislatures, Courts Should Butt Out, Guest Column, USA Today, Apr. 2, 1987,
p. 10A, col. 2 (on "Baby M" case).

Dissent Protected—and the Right to Gloss over History, Guest Column, Chicago
Sun-Times, July 3, 1989, p. 14, col. 1 (on Flag-burning case).

Gender and the Judiciary, AALS Jurisprudence Newsletter 3 (1987), reprinted in
various publications.

International Criminal Law and Human Rights (Rapporteur), Association
Internationale de Droit Penal, Nouvelles Etudes Penales 45 (1985).

How Does the Supreme Court Decide Which Cases to Hear? in George
Gallup, America Wants to Know 488 (1983).

Can People Be Forced to Sell Their Land to the Federal or State Government? in
George Gallup, America Wants to Know 492 (1983).

Testimony on the Israeli Air Strike and International Law, The Israeli Air Strike: Imagining A Judgment in the Case of Iraq v. Israel, Hearings Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 97th Congress, 1st
Session 80, 85-88 (1981). (Washington Star, June 15, 1981)

In Memoriam: Brunson MacChesney, 73 Northwestern Law Review 987 (1979).

A Proposed Environmental Rights Amendment, in Robert Gesteland (ed.), Project
Survival (1970), reprinted in Joan C. Roloff & Robert C. Wylder (eds), There is
No "Away" 337 (1971).

On Survival, 6 Ripon Forum 16 (1970).

The War's Day in Court, 6 Ripon Forum 13 (1970).

I. PRINCIPAL LECTURES AND PAPERS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

Where Does International Law Come from and How is It Proved? Paper presented at Public International Law Discussion, British Branch, International Law Association, The Queen's College, Oxford, Sept. 14, 2007

“Where Does International Law Come from and How is It Proved? Oxford, Corpus Christi College, Philosophy of International Law, 2d workshop, (S. Besson responded ), Sept 13, 2007

When Lawyers Negotiate, An Invisible Judge is Present, NULS Faculty Workshop Day, Aug. 28, 2007

Sources of International Law, Philosophy of International Law workshop, response to Besson, S., , Fribourg , Switzerland , (1st of 2 workshops, Oxford University ), Feb 16-17, 2007

The Intersection of United States Constitutional Law with International and Foreign Law, Symposium panelist, dedication ceremony, Florida International University Law School Building, Miami, Feb 8-9, 2007

The Case for Natural Law: Legal Certainty, paper given at Legal Certainty Conference, Glasgow Graduate School of Law, Glasgow, Scotland, September 15, 2006

Legitimacy of Legislative and Executive Actions of International Institutions, paper given at Symposium on Legitimacy in International Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, June 13, 2006

Should customary international law have any domestic effect of its own in the US courts? Debate with Prof. McGinnis (Prof. Nzelibe moderating), Inaugural Meeting of the NULS Comparative Law Society, April 12, 2006

Dangers of Universal Jurisdiction (and the ICC), (with Prof. Kontorovich), Federalist Society Debate, NULS, March 27, 2006

Lecture on International Law, Loyola of Chicago Law School Seminar (Prof. Bilder, U. Wisconsin ), Feb 16, 2006

Logic, Quantum Logic, and Interdisciplinary Communication, paper at Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, July 21, 2005

International Law as a Complex Self-Regulating System, paper at Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems,
Evanston, March 16, 2005

International Law as an Autopoetic System; paper read at Conference on Development of International Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg; November 15, 2003

Does Judge Posner Have the Right Conception of Judging? Debate with Richard Posner,
Northwestern University, January 30, 2003

Computer Network Attack and International Law, Naval War College, June 22-25, 1999

Torture: Exploration of a New Human Rights Paradigm, interlocutor of panel on
Persistence: Torture as Raison d'État, University of Chicago, March 4-7,1999

International Criminal Court/U.S. National Security, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Chicago, January 28-20, 1999

Genocide Convention 50^th Anniversary, NY-ILA conference panel, Nov. 14, 1998

Accounting for Atrocities 50 Years Later, Bard College, October 5-6, 1998 (Panel on Law and War in Former Yugoslavia)

International Handling of War Crimes, June 19-21, 1998, Ditchley (England)

Conference on the Holocaust, Cardozo Law School, February 8-9, 1998

Human Rights in a Postsovereign World, International Studies Association
Annual Convention, Chicago, February 1995.

Suing Foreign Sovereigns in US Courts for Human Rights Violations, International
Law Symposium, Whittier Law School, Los Angeles, June 1993.

Justice in a World of Legal Indeterminacy, Visiting Speaker Series, Drake University
School of Law, January 1992.

What is Justice? University Lecture, Visiting Speaker Series, Drake University, January
1992.

Testimony on War Crimes of Iraqi Leaders, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, April 1991.

Public Law Aspects of the Iraqi Crisis, Chicago Bar Association, November 1990.

US Military Attacks on Qaddafi and Noriega: What's Legal and Who Decides?
American Bar Association Annual Meeting, August 1990.

Testimony on a Proposed Peace Treaty with Germany, U.S. Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, July 1990.

Free Speech and Religious, Racial and Sexual Harassment, Bill of Rights
Symposium, College of William & Mary, April 1990.

International Law and the Invasion of Panama, DePaul University
Lecture Series, February 1990.

International Law and Israel's Air Attack on the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor,
Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East, Ontario, Canada, May 1987.

The Arab-Israel Peace Process, American Professors for Peace in the Middle East,
University of Chicago, February 1987.

Terrorism and International Law, International Law Symposium,
Whittier Law School, April 1986.

The Wallenberg Case, Faculty Seminar, New York University School of Law,
February, 1986.

Jurisprudential Issues of Customary International Law, Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Law Schools, New Orleans, January 1986.

The US and Compulsory Jurisdiction of the World Court, US House
of Representatives Seminar, September 1985.

The Armenian Genocide of 1915 and International Law, Armenian Assembly,
Los Angeles, June 1985.

The Legality of U.S. Involvement in Nicaragua, Chicago Bar Association, Chicago,
May 1985.

US Policy and Nicaragua, American Civil Liberties Union, Gary, Indiana, May 1985.

Normative Analysis and Legal Methodology, Arizona State Law School, Tempe,
Arizona, January 1985.

Observations on the Teaching of International Legal Studies, Association of
American Law Schools Workshop on Teaching International Law, Chicago,
September 1984.

Domestic Enforcement of Human Rights Norms, Annual Meeting of the
American Bar Association, Chicago, August 1984.

International Human Rights Law in U.S. Courts, Symposium on International Human
Rights and the Law, University of Michigan, March 1984.

The Frolov Model as a Legal Remedy for Human Rights Violations, National
Interreligious Legal Task Forces for Human Rights, Chicago, November, 1983.

Repressive Legislation in the German Democratic Republic, Forum on Human Rights
and Freedom of Expression, Amnesty International, Chicago, November 1983.

Disarmament and International Law, Midyear Meeting, Illinois State Bar Association,
Chicago, Nov. 1983.

Emerging Legal Recognition for the Rights of Animals, Conference on Animal Rights,
DePaul University, October 1983.

Some Political Scientists Still Do Not Understand what International Law Is,
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago,
September 1983.

The MX Missile Defense System and International Law, Notre Dame Law School,
March 1983.

The Role of International Law in the 1980's, Comparative Law Society of the DePaul
University College of Law, September, 1982.

Terrorism and Self-Determination, Forum of the World Without War Council,
Evanston Illinois, December 1980.

A Proposed Resolution on Violation of Islamic Law by Iranian People's Tribunals,
Siracusa Italy, May 1979.

Legal Aspects of Truth and Confidentiality in Medicine, Regional Conference of the
Chicago Medical Society, Chicago, March 1979.

Comments on the Draft Convention on the Prevention and Suppression of Unlawful
Medical Experimentation, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal
Science, Siracusa, Italy, March 1979.

Professional Ethics and the In-House Counsel, Annual Meeting of the Electronics
Industry Association, Chicago, June 1978.

Human Rights as a Criterion for Conducting Foreign Policy, Simeon E. Leland
Forum, Northwestern University, January, 1978.

Defining International Prohibitions Against Aggression, First International Criminal
Law Conference, Racine Wisconsin, September 1971.

Schools, Cemeteries, and Mixed Marriages: The Supreme Court and Strategies of
Desegregation, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, May 1968.

J. LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES AND OTHER JOURNALS ON LEGAL ISSUES

Transfer Payments vs. Economic Costs in the Iraq War,
The Economists' Voice 3.4 (2006)

On Iraq, Bush's Forces Are Split, Aug. 17, 2002

Young Refugees, Apr. 25, 1999.

Protect Simpson Children's Rights Too, Nov. 3, 1994.

International Law Won't Shield Libyan Agents, Mar. 3, 1992.

New Baby M Decision Will Breed Confusion, Feb. 18, 1988.

Surrogate Motherhood Should be Privatized, Mar. 3, 1987.

U.S. Needs a New Commitment to World Court, Feb. 1, 1986 (with Keith Highet).

A Treaty Obligation at the World Court, Feb. 4, 1985.

Law of the Sea, Dec. 29, 1982.

Intervention in Grenada, Oct. 30, 1982.

William Calley Case, Apr. 14, 1971.