Foreign Affairs, International Law & the Constitution

Looking forward to meeting you all next Wednesday for our first class. The readings for the first class are from the Dycus et al. National Security Law casebook. Read the Youngstown case (which you should already have read in Con law) and the notes, pp 24-50; the Curtis-Wright case 53-60; Little v. Barreme, 78-82.

The Dycus book should be at bookstore. I didn't order the supplement, but if it is there, don't buy it.

Also, read the NY Times article (which also was in Post Gazette) from today's paper which I have reprinted below. Think about for discussion in class whether, in light of the cases you read, President Obama is correct in his signing statement position that Congress's restrictions on the President's power to transfer detainees infringes on his constitutional power as commander in chief.