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Introductory Remarks by Scott Anderson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Scott Anderson*
Affiliation:
Brookings Institution.

Extract

Over the past two years, we have really seen the Trump administration make treaty withdrawal something of a signature move, from the Treaty of Amity with Iran to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, to the Optional Protocol for the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The administration has taken steps to remove the United States, rightly or wrongly, from a wide array of longstanding international legal obligations. And while it is far from unprecedented, the administration has done so at a little bit of a faster pace than certain prior administrations have—and has embedded a lot of these moves within a consistent critique of international institutions and international commitments that promises further change on the horizon.

Type
Senate V. President: A Moot Court on Treaty Withdrawal Powers
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 3:00 p.m., Thursday, March 28, 2019, by its moderator, Scott R. Anderson of the Brookings Institution, who introduced the panelists: Ginger Anders of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP; Curtis Bradley of Duke University School of Law; Christopher Fonzone of Sidley Austin LLP; Catherine Powell of Fordham University School of Law; and Donald Verrilli, Jr. of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.