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Outsourcing of American Law
With Keynote Address by Justice Antonin Scalia
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Time: 1:00 PM — 6:30 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event
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In the past year, there has been serious debate over the role that international and foreign law should play in American judicial decision-making. Are there circumstances under which international and foreign law can trump the Constitution? How do we define sovereignty in the age of the war on terrorism? Is U.S. reliance on international law a double-edged sword? 
 
In order to understand recent developments in the relationship between international, foreign, and domestic law and the implications of this debate for American citizens in general, AEI will host a conference on the outsourcing of American law. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will deliver the keynote speech and distinguished speakers will address the subjects of customary international law in American judicial decision-making after
Sosa v. Alvarez Machain, international law and laws of war, and the role of foreign law in Supreme Court adjudication. Speakers will include AEI visiting scholar John Yoo; Brookings Institution senior fellow Stuart Taylor; senior vice president of the Center for American Progress Morton Halperin; professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law Kenneth Anderson; Hofstra University professor of law Julian Ku; and Hoover Institution senior fellow and George Mason University law professor Peter Berkowitz.
 
Agenda
11:45 a.m.
Registration and Lunch
Noon
Opening Remarks:
Jack Goldsmith, AEI, Harvard Law School
12:10
Panel I: Looking Abroad for Law? Customary International Law and the Alien Tort Statute
 
Panelists:
William Dodge, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
 
 
Julian Ku, Hofstra University School of Law
 
 
David Moore, University of Kentucky College of Law
 
 
Beth Stephens, Rutgers School of Law
 
Moderator:
Jack Goldsmith, AEI, Harvard Law School
1:35
Panel II: Law and War: The War on Terrorism and International Law
 
Panelists:
Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law, American
University
 
 
Morton Halperin, Open Society Institute, Center for American Progress
 
 
John Hutson, Franklin Pierce Law Center, U.S. Navy
 
 
Andrew McCarthy, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
 
Moderator:
John Yoo, AEI, UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
2:50
Break
 
3:00
Keynote Address
 
Introduction:
Christopher DeMuth, AEI
 
Speaker:
Justice Antonin Scalia
4:00
Panel III: Outsourcing Constitutional Law? International and Foreign Law and the U.S. Supreme Court
 
Panelists:
Peter Berkowitz, George Mason University Law School, Hoover Institution
 
 
Thomas Goldstein, Goldstein and Howe, P.C.
 
 
Stuart Taylor, National Journal, Newsweek, Brookings Institution
 
 
John Yoo, AEI, UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
 
Moderator:
Danielle Pletka, AEI
 
Closing Remarks:
John Yoo, AEI, UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
 
 
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