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BRIEFS Michigan Law adds externships in Geneva Switzerland Shedding new light Happy Birthday SFF! Michigan Law hosts Federalist Society's national student conference Faculty New faculty: Deborah Burand; Susan Crawford; Monica Hakimi; Penelope Mathew; David Moran Caminker reappointed as dean Students will get hands-on international transactional experience New Innocence Clinic will look beyond convictions Istanbul Seminar Shedding a searching, year-long light on China Conference participants: China's rule of law will keep lurching ahead Primus awarded inaugural Guggenheim Fellowship in constitutional studies Hasen named IRS professor in residence McCrudden's Buying Social Justice wins ASIL top award Crowley exams interplay of regulation and public interests A bittersweet celebration In memoriam: Frank R. Kennedy Articles Think again: The Geneva Conventions–Steven R. RatnerThe following essay is based on the author’s article of the same name in the "Think Again" section of the March/April 2008 issue of Foreign Policy (pages 26-32). It is reproduced here with permission from FOREIGN POLICY, www.ForeignPolicy.com, #165 (March/April 2008). Copyright 2008 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The "Think Again" section of Foreign Policy seeks to educate readers by presenting and responding to common myths and conventional wisdom on important matters of international relations. Law, economics, and torture –James Boyd WhiteThe following essay, which appears here with the permission of the University of Michigan Press, is the text of a talk given by Professor White at a conference held at the Law School last year, entitled "Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force." (An interview with White in which he discussed the conference appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Law Quadrangle Notes on pages 27-28.) In more complete form the essay will appear in a book of conference proceedings, edited by Professor White and Professor Jefferson Powell of Duke Law School, to be published by the University of Michigan Press in early 2009. The participants at the conference were invited to speak about their own sense of the ways in which law and democracy have been changing in recent decades and what these changes mean. The phrase "empire of force" comes from a famous essay by Simone Weil on the Iliad, where she uses it to refer not only to brute force of familiar kinds, then and now, but more importantly to all the ways in which the habits of thought and expression at work in our culture tend to trivialize other people and deny their full humanity. Complete Issue
Think again: The Geneva Conventions–Steven R. RatnerThe following essay is based on the author’s article of the same name in the "Think Again" section of the March/April 2008 issue of Foreign Policy (pages 26-32). It is reproduced here with permission from FOREIGN POLICY, www.ForeignPolicy.com, #165 (March/April 2008). Copyright 2008 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The "Think Again" section of Foreign Policy seeks to educate readers by presenting and responding to common myths and conventional wisdom on important matters of international relations. Law, economics, and torture –James Boyd WhiteThe following essay, which appears here with the permission of the University of Michigan Press, is the text of a talk given by Professor White at a conference held at the Law School last year, entitled "Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force." (An interview with White in which he discussed the conference appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Law Quadrangle Notes on pages 27-28.) In more complete form the essay will appear in a book of conference proceedings, edited by Professor White and Professor Jefferson Powell of Duke Law School, to be published by the University of Michigan Press in early 2009. The participants at the conference were invited to speak about their own sense of the ways in which law and democracy have been changing in recent decades and what these changes mean. The phrase "empire of force" comes from a famous essay by Simone Weil on the Iliad, where she uses it to refer not only to brute force of familiar kinds, then and now, but more importantly to all the ways in which the habits of thought and expression at work in our culture tend to trivialize other people and deny their full humanity. Complete Issue
Law, economics, and torture –James Boyd WhiteThe following essay, which appears here with the permission of the University of Michigan Press, is the text of a talk given by Professor White at a conference held at the Law School last year, entitled "Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force." (An interview with White in which he discussed the conference appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Law Quadrangle Notes on pages 27-28.) In more complete form the essay will appear in a book of conference proceedings, edited by Professor White and Professor Jefferson Powell of Duke Law School, to be published by the University of Michigan Press in early 2009. The participants at the conference were invited to speak about their own sense of the ways in which law and democracy have been changing in recent decades and what these changes mean. The phrase "empire of force" comes from a famous essay by Simone Weil on the Iliad, where she uses it to refer not only to brute force of familiar kinds, then and now, but more importantly to all the ways in which the habits of thought and expression at work in our culture tend to trivialize other people and deny their full humanity. Complete Issue
The phrase "empire of force" comes from a famous essay by Simone Weil on the Iliad, where she uses it to refer not only to brute force of familiar kinds, then and now, but more importantly to all the ways in which the habits of thought and expression at work in our culture tend to trivialize other people and deny their full humanity.
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