Cities, or more particularly global cities, increasingly channel foreign relations that we think of belonging to nation–states. But one should not think that this is an entirely good thing, leading us towards enlightened progress and away from injustice. The foreign relations law that cities make has a dark side.
Paul B. Stephan Posts
The One Voice in Foreign Relations Law and the Future of Federal Common Law
Paul B. Stephan | Mar 28 2019 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
For most of the past century, those who followed foreign relations law believed that federal law, including that made by the federal courts in the absence of legislation and treaties, should govern the field. Anything else would burden political and economic ties with the rest of the world and stymie efforts to adapt the law to a rapidly changing international environment.
International Law and the Judiciary
Paul B. Stephan | Mar 4 2019 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
At UVA Law’s 31st Sokol Colloquium, Notre Dame Law professor A.J. Bellia and UVA Law professors Paul Stephan and John Harrison discussed international law and the judiciary in a panel moderated by UVA Law professor Saikrishna Prakash.
Comparative International Law, Foreign Relations Law and Fragmentation: Can the Center Hold?
Paul B. Stephan | Apr 5 2018 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Foreign relations law focuses on the domestic institutions that conduct a state’s relations with foreign actors, whether states, international organizations, or foreign persons. One of its tasks is to intervene between international and domestic law.
Extradition
Paul B. Stephan | Mar 31 2017 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Section 312 covers Extradition, which is the principal means by which the United States acquires the presence of a defendant who is not already in the United States as well as the process by which the United States sends criminal suspects located in the United States to others countries for trial.