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Free Trade, Fair Trade, And Selective Enforcement, Timothy Meyer
Free Trade, Fair Trade, And Selective Enforcement, Timothy Meyer
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The United States, Mexico, And The War On Drugs In The Trump Administration, James M. Cooper
The United States, Mexico, And The War On Drugs In The Trump Administration, James M. Cooper
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This Article examines the war on drugs as persecuted by the United States and how it has been exported to Mexico. It also explores the increased efforts in the drugs war that the Trump administration, through the U.S. Department of Justice, is pursuing at a domestic level. Part I of this Article provides an outline of the dynamics in the quickly evolving and highly tense relationship between the United States and Mexico. Part II of this Article details the historical background of the U.S.-Mexico border region and demonstrates that the border has long been a contested site. Part III provides …
Presidential Control Over International Law, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith
Presidential Control Over International Law, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith
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Presidents have come to dominate the making, interpretation, and termination of international law for the United States. Often without specific congressional concurrence, and sometimes even when it is likely that Congress would disagree, the President has developed the authority to:
(a) make a vast array of international obligations for the United States, through both written agreements and the development of customary international law;
(b) make increasingly consequential political commitments for the United States on practically any topic;
(c) interpret these obligations and commitments; and
(d) terminate or withdraw from these obligations and commitments.
While others have examined pieces of this …