International Law Behind the Headlines

In this episode Kal interviews Axios Chief Financial Correspondent and Slate Money host Felix Salmon about the recent, massive data dump of financial documents related to offshore tax avoidance and evasion, money laundering, and the role of lawyers in enabling and regulating this activity.

Rebecca Hamilton of American University comes on the podcast to discuss the recent events around “AUKUS,” the Australia/UK/US security arrangement and submarine deal, and its implications for the Non Proliferation Treaty, foreign relations in the Indo-Pacific, and everyone’s relations with France.

With COP26 fast approaching, can the parties develop better methods for dispute settlement? In this episode ASIL President Catherine Amirfar discusses the issue and importance of the conciliation annex under the Paris Agreement on climate change.

In this episode we discuss vaccine passports, new multilateral agreements, and other emerging legal Issues in Geneva and elsewhere with Gian Luca Burci, former Legal Counsel of the WHO and professor at the Graduate Institute.

In this episode we discuss the recent plane diversion by Belarus, which has been called a “state sponsored hijacking“. Joining us to analyze the international legal framework governing such incidents is Cameron Miles.

Episode 27: the Biden Administration and the Use of Force by American Society of International Law

President Trump sought to exit the WHO and the Paris Accord; President Biden is reversing both of those decisions. In this episode our guest Duncan Hollis, editor of the Oxford Guide to Treaties, explores how treaty exit and entrance work, who governs these processes, and many other related issues.

This episode features Kathleen Claussen, co-author of the recent “The Perils of Pandemic Exceptionalism” in the ,em>American Journal of International Law, discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic may reshape international economic law.

In this episode we speak with David Kaye, former UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression, about content moderation, social media, disinformation, and international law, especially in the context of elections.

In this episode we speak with Bonnie Glaser, head of the China Power Project at CSIS, about the recent State Department endorsement of the 2016 arbitral ruling on maritime claims in the South China Sea. We cover what’s new, what’s not, and what is likely to happen between the US and China now that the US has formally endorsed the tribunal’s findings.