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Inadvertent Implications of the War Powers Resolution
(Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2012)
The constitutional infirmity of the War Powers Resolution has been uniformly demonstrated by more than four decades of bipartisan experience. The Resolution manifestly fails to eliminate the healthy interbranch tensions ...
The President's Power to Detain "Enemy Combatants": Modern Lessons from Mr. Madison's Forgotten War
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2004)
This article uses three sets of cases from the War of 1812 to illustrate three problems with how modern courts have approached the detention of "enemy combatants" in the United States. The War of 1812 cases show that modern ...
Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the "Charming Betsy" Canon
(Boston College Law Review, 2005)
Although international law has figured prominently in many disputes around actions of the U.S. military, the precise relationship between international law and the President's war powers has gone largely unexplored. This ...