List of Posts and Comments to dwkcommentaries–Topical
As of 05/05/13
| # | Date | Title |
| Personal | ||
| 1 | 04/04/11 | Getting Started |
| 121 | 08/23/11 | Growing Up in a Small Iowa Town |
| 2 | 04/04/11 | My Political Philosophy |
| 8 | 04/06/11 | My Christian Faith |
| 186 | 12/25/11 | Merry Christmas! |
| 9 | 04/06/11 | Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 46 | 05/26/11 | A Sabbatical Leave from Lawyering |
| 19 | 04/22/11 | Retiring from Lawyering |
| 21 | 04/23/11 | My First Ten Years of Retirement |
| 23 | 04/27/11 | The Roads Not Taken |
| 195 | 01/11/12 | Words of Wisdom from a History Professor |
| 198 | 01/17/12 | A Tribute to Jim de Jong |
| 221 | 03/08/12 | Intimations of Mortality |
| 226 | 03/15/12 | Gratitude I |
| 242 | 04/11/12 | Gratitude II |
| 243 | 04/12/12 | Gratitude III |
| 276 | 06/13/12 | Gratitude Revisited |
| 12 | 04/11/11 | Tip for Grandparents |
| 20 | 04/22/11 | Superior Elementary Education |
| 238 | 04/03/12 | National Geographic BEE |
| 185 | 12/23/11 | The Joy of Blogging |
| 392 | 02/26/13 | A Septuagenarian’s Reaction to the Social Media |
| 192 | 01/02/12 | 2011 Annual Report on dwkcommentaries |
| 370 | 01/01/13 | 2012 Annual Report on dwkcommentaries |
| Higher Education | ||
| 108 | 08/10/11 | Selecting a College |
| 125 | 08/27/11 | My Grinnell College Years |
| 3 | 04/05/11 | Adventures of a History Detective |
| 86 | 07/11/11 | The Washington Semester |
| 14 | 04/16/11 | Encounters with Candidates JFK and LBJ |
| 128 | 08/31/11 | Chosen To Be a Rhodes Scholar |
| 126 | 08/29/11 | Sailing to Oxford |
| 127 | 08/30/11 | My Oxford University Years |
| 56 | 06/06/11 | Reading PPE at Oxford |
| 60 | 06/10/11 | PPE Examinations at Oxford |
| 69 | 06/20/11 | Oxford’s Lord Franks |
| 187 | 12/27/11 | My Years at the University of Chicago Law School |
| 15 | 04/17/11 | Questioning President Lyndon Johnson |
| 28 | 05/10/11 | Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Mattie Stepanek and Five Judges |
| 46 | 05/26/11 | A Sabbatical Leave from Lawyering |
| 49 | 05/28/11 | A Liberal Arts Seminar for Lawyers |
| 77 | 06/29/11 | Practitioner in Residence |
| 78 | 06/30/11 | Auditing the International Human Rights Law Course |
| 79 | 07/01/11 | Teaching the International Human Rights Law Course |
| 112 | 08/14/11 | Honorary Degree |
| 50 | 05/29/11 | Celebrating Oxford’s Worcester College’s 700th Anniversary |
| 51 | 05/30/11 | Celebrating 80th Anniversary of Rhodes Scholarships |
| 70 | 06/21/11 | Celebrating the Rhodes Scholarships Centennial |
| 36 | 05/18/11 | Dinner at an Oxford High Table |
| 34 | 05/17/11 | Oxford in New York City |
| Religion/Christianity | ||
| 8 | 04/06/11 | My Christian Faith |
| 186 | 12/25/11 | Merry Christmas! |
| 9 | 04/06/11 | Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 380 | 01/27/13 | Mission Statement of Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 346 | 11/15/12 | The Order of Worship at M Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 332 | 10/16/12 | Affirmations of Faith at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 333 | 10/17/12 | Confessions of Faith of the Presbyterian Church |
| 45 | 05/25/11 | My Pilgrimage to El Salvador, April 1989 |
| 5 | 04/06/11 | Jesus on the Rich and the Poor |
| 17 | 04/20/11 | The Parable of the Prodigal Son and His Older Brother |
| 6 | 04/06/11 | Dr. Rev. Anna Carter Florence’s “Preaching as Testimony” |
| 37 | 05/19/11 | Dr. Rev. Anna Carter Florence’s “Skinny-Dip Sermon” |
| 38 | 05/20/11 | Dr. Rev. Anna Carter Florence’s “Changing Your Mind” |
| 90 | 07/25/11 | Westminster Town Hall Forum |
| 91 | 07/26/11 | Westminster Town Hall Forum: Krista Tippett |
| 92 | 07/27/11 | Westminster Town Hall Forum: Marcus Borg |
| 103 | 08/05/11 | Westminster Town Hall Forum: Fall 2011 Speakers |
| 135 | 10/05/11 | Archbishop Oscar Romero, A Saint for All People and All Time |
| 137 | 10/07/11 | Oscar Romero’s Last Homily |
| 138 | 10/08/11 | Oscar Romero’s Assassination |
| 190 | 12/30/11 | The Cuban Revolution and Religion |
| 191 | 01/01/12 | International Law Regarding Religious Freedom |
| 193 | 01/05/12 | U.S. Government’s Opinions on Religious Freedom in Cuba |
| 194 | 01/08/12 | Cuban Religious Freedom According to the U.S. Commission on Assistance to a Free Cuba |
| 298 | 08/01/12 | The Latest U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom |
| 299 | 08/03/12 | Cuban Religious Freedom According to the Latest U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom |
| 244 | 04/17/12 | Palestinian Arts Festival in Minneapolis |
| 247 | 04/22/12 | Palestinian Christian Leader To Appear on CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes” Today |
| 249 | 04/23/12 | “Christians of the Holy Land” on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes |
| 263 | 05/18/12 | Palestinian Dancers Perform in Minneapolis |
| 262 | 05/17/12 | World Premier of Palestinian Christian Hymns at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 303 | 08/10/12 | A Powerful Prayer |
| 303A | 08/13/12 | Composer’s Comments |
| 303B | 08/14/12 | Comments by Westminster’s Minister of Music and Organist |
| 311 | 09/05/12 | Jazzy Music at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 321 | 09/22/12 | “O Holy One and Nameless” |
| 322 | 09/25/12 | “What Do Our Hearts Treasure?” |
| 323 | 09/26/12 | Prayer of Confession |
| 324 | 09/27/12 | “How do We Know God: Human Community” |
| 325 | 09/29/12 | In Memoriam: Rev. Dr. Henry William Andersen, 1925-2012 |
| 326 | 09/30/12 | Percussive Preludes at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 418 | 04/21/13 | Inspiration from Charles Wesley |
| 421 | 04/27/13 | What Do We Christians Do After Easter? |
| 422 | 05/01/13 | Reflections on the New Testament’s John 21: 1-14 |
| 423 | 05/04/13 | Additional Reflections on the New Testament’s John 21 |
| 347 | 11/18/12 | Remembering the U.S.-Dakota War at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part I) |
| 350 | 11/25/12 | Remembering the U.S.-Dakota War at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part II) |
| 351 | 11/29/12 | Remembering the U.S.-Dakota War at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part III) |
| 357 | 12/10/12 | Personal Reflections on the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| Lawyering | ||
| 7 | 04/06/11 | Reflections on Pre-Law Education |
| 187 | 12/27/11 | My Years at the University of Chicago Law School |
| 13 | 04/14/11 | Lawyering on Wall Street |
| 52 | 05/31/11 | The Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Litigation |
| 96 | 07/30/11 | The IBM Antitrust Litigation |
| 16 | 04/18/11 | Lawyering in Minneapolis |
| 76 | 06/28/11 | Minnesota’s Federal Court |
| 97 | 07/31/11 | Minneapolis Police’s Pretextual Arrests of Political Dissidents in 1970 |
| 312 | 09/06/12 | Minneapolis Public Schools Desegregation/Integration Litigation, 1971-1977 |
| 314 | 09/09/12 | Minneapolis Public Schools’ Desegregation/Integration Litigation, 1978-1983 |
| 315 | 09/11/12 | The Impact of the Minneapolis Public Schools Desegregation/Integration Litigation on Native American Children |
| 42 | 05/22/11 | The Sanctuary Movement Case |
| 44 | 05/24/11 | Becoming a Pro Bono Asylum Lawyer |
| 98 | 08/01/11 | Buying Banks and Selling Hot Dogs Are the Same Under the Law |
| 99 | 08/02/11 | The Lutheran Pastor at the 1973 Siege of Wounded Knee |
| 101 | 08/03/11 | U.S. Litigation Over a Russian Real Estate Project |
| 102 | 08/04/11 | Ted Turner’s Superstation in the Crosshairs |
| 111 | 08/13/11 | Star Pagination of Legal Materials |
| 106 | 08/08/11 | The Personal Jurisdiction Requirement for U.S. Civil Lawsuits |
| 106A | 08/11/11 | Comment: Another Victory for Foreign Client |
| 107 | 08/09/11 | Resolving Disputes between Manufacturers and Distributors/Dealers |
| 109 | 08/11/11 | International Commercial Dispute Resolution |
| 110 | 08/12/11 | Battling Australian and Wisconsin Courts |
| 113 | 08/15/11 | Silver Bullion and Underground Homes |
| 114 | 08/16/11 | Artificial Insemination of Cattle |
| 115 | 08/17/11 | The Flight Transportation Corporation Litigation |
| 116 | 08/18/11 | Intraocular Lenses Litigation |
| 123 | 08/25/11 | Employers’ Lawsuits Against Former Employees |
| 188 | 12/28/11 | Accounting for Horses, Cattle and Catfish |
| 46 | 05/26/11 | A Sabbatical Leave from Lawyering |
| 49 | 05/28/11 | A Liberal Arts Seminar for Lawyers |
| 77 | 06/29/11 | Practitioner in Residence |
| 78 | 06/30/11 | Auditing the International Human Rights Law Course |
| 79 | 07/01/11 | Teaching the International Human Rights Law Course |
| 18 | 04/20/11 | Ruminations on Lawyering |
| 19 | 04/22/11 | Retiring from Lawyering |
| 412 | 04/11/13 | Judging on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit |
| U.S. History | ||
| 256 | 05/07/12 | Rev. Charles Edwin Brown’s Lineage in America |
| 258 | 05/12/12 | Ancestor’s Military Service in King George’s War |
| 288 | 07/12/12 | Ancestors’ Military Service in the French and Indian War |
| 289 | 07/14/12 | Ancestor’s Service as Leader of Leicester, Massachusetts |
| 290 | 07/16/12 | Great Britain’s Deteriorating Relationship with Her American Colonies, 1765-1775 |
| 293 | 07/20/12 | The American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 |
| 294 | 07/22/12 | The American Revolutionary War’s Battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775 |
| 295 | 07/24/12 | The American Revolutionary War’s Mustering of the Minute Men, April 1775 |
| 295A | 07/24/12 | Comment: Response to Kristi Paxton’s comment |
| 417 | 04/20/13 | Watertown, Massachusetts, 238 Years Ago |
| 296 | 07/27/12 | The American Revolutionary War’s Siege of Boston, April 19, 1775–March 17, 1776 |
| 296A | 08/14/12 | Comment: David McCullough on the Siege of Boston |
| 297 | 07/30/12 | The American Revolutionary War’s Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775 |
| 297A | 04/27/13 | Comment: New Book on Battle of Bunker Hill |
| 304 | 08/13/12 | The American Revolutionary War’s Campaign for New York and New Jersey, March 1776–January 1777 |
| 328 | 10/08/12 | The American Revolutionary War’s Battle of Brooklyn (Long Island), August 1776 |
| 329 | 10/10/12 | The American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights, New York, September 1776 |
| 330 | 10/12/12 | The American Revolutionary War: The Battle of White Plains, October 1776 |
| 331 | 10/14/12 | The American Revolutionary War’s End in New York City, 1783 |
| 389 | 02/19/13 | The Fate of Black British Loyalists in the American Revolutionary War |
| 390 | 02/21/13 | The Black British Loyalists Through the Eyes of Lawrence Hill |
| 391 | 02/23/13 | Further Reflections on “The Book of Negroes” Novel |
| 381 | 01/30/13 | Rev. Philip Perry Brown and Betsy Dickey Brown |
| 254 | 04/29/12 | An 1842 Journey from New York to the Iowa Territory |
| 363 | 12/19/12 | Rev. Charles Edwin Brown’s Baptist Missionary Work in Iowa, 1842-1851 |
| 364 | 12/22/12 | Rev. Charles Edwin Brown’s Recuperation in New York, 1851-1857 |
| 366 | 12/26/12 | Rev. Charles Edwin Brown’s Baptist Missionary Work in Iowa, 1857-1887 |
| 340 | 11/03/12 | The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 341 | 11/06/12 | White Settler’s Contemporaneous Reaction to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 344 | 11/09/12 | The Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 344A | 12/11/12 | Comment: Minnesota Public Radio’s Resources on the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 367 | 12/26/12 | Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Hanging of the “Dakota 38″ |
| 373 | 01/12/13 | Minneapolis and St. Paul Declare U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 “Genocide” |
| 347 | 11/18/12 | Remembering the U.S.-Dakota War at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part I) |
| 350 | 11/25/12 | Remembering the U.S.-Dakota War at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part II) |
| 351 | 11/29/12 | Remembering the U.S.-Dakota War at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part III) |
| 357 | 12/10/12 | Personal Reflections on the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 400 | 03/14/13 | James DeGrush Brown and Ella Francelia Dye Brown |
| 382 | 02/02/13 | Grand Central Terminal’s Centennial |
| 410 | 04/07/13 | Another Report on Grand Central Terminal’s Centennial |
| 401 | 03/17/13 | George Edwin Brown and Jennie Olivia Brown |
| 259 | 05/13/12 | U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy Encounters Langston Hughes at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater |
| 277 | 06/14/12 | Joseph Welch Before the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 272 | 06/08/12 | The U.S. Army’s Hiring of Attorney Joseph Welch for the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 270 | 06/04/12 | U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Nemesis: Attorney Joseph Welch |
| 271 | 06/06/12 | Attorney Joseph Welch’s Performance at the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 274 | 06/10/12 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Involvement in the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 275 | 06/12/12 | Joseph Welch After the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 284 | 06/27/12 | Legal Ethics Issues in the “Anatomy of a Murder” Movie |
| 14 | 04/16/11 | Encounters with Candidates JFK and LBJ |
| 15 | 04/17/11 | Questioning President Lyndon Johnson |
| 52 | 05/31/11 | The Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Litigation |
| 97 | 07/31/11 | Minneapolis Police’s Pretextual Arrests of Political Dissidents in 1970 |
| 312 | 09/06/12 | Minneapolis Public Schools Desegregation/Integration Litigation, 1971-1977 |
| 314 | 09/09/12 | Minneapolis Public Schools’ Desegregation/Integration Litigation, 1978-1983 |
| 315 | 09/11/12 | The Impact of the Minneapolis Public Schools Desegregation/Integration Litigation on Native American Children |
| 99 | 08/02/11 | The Lutheran Pastor at the 1973 Siege of Wounded Knee |
| 42 | 05/22/11 | The Sanctuary Movement Case |
| U.S. Politics | ||
| 2 | 04/04/11 | My Political Philosophy |
| 4 | 04/06/11 | The Abominable Rules of the U.S. Senate |
| 142 | 10/12/11 | The Abominable Rules of the U.S. Senate Are Modified |
| 142A | 10/14/11 | Comment: Wall Street Journal Criticizes Senate Vote on Chinese Currency Bill |
| 142B | 10/16/11 | Comment: New York Times Criticizes Chinese Currency Bill |
| 253 | 04/28/12 | Miniscule Proposed Changes to U.S. Senate Rules |
| 261 | 05/15/12 | U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule Under Attack |
| 261A | 05/18/12 | Comment: Differing Opinions on Constitutionality of Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 261B | 06/04/12 | Comment: Rebuttal to Criticism of U.S. Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 261C | 06/08/12 | Comment: Response to Republican Defense of Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 261D | 09/28/12 | Comment: Another Plea for Changing the Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 334 | 10/19/12 | The History of the U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 335 | 10/22/12 | Are the U.S. Senate’s Rules on Filibuster and Changing Those Rules Unconstitutional? |
| 336 | 10/25/12 | Jurisdictional Issues for Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 365 | 12/22/12 | District Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 343 | 11/08/12 | Open Letter to Members of U.S. Senate in the Upcoming 1113th U.S. Congress |
| 343A | 11/13/12 | Comment: New York Times Calls for Significant Weakening of U.S. Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 343B | 11/15/12 | Comment: Senator-Elect Elizabeth Warren Calls for Changing Filibuster Rule |
| 348 | 11/20/12 | Sign Petition for Reform of Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 352 | 11/30/12 | A Citizen’s Response to Washington Skirmishes Over the U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 353 | 12/03/12 | New York Times Hosts Debate Over the Filibuster |
| 354 | 12/04/12 | Washington Post Editorial Admits U.S. Senate Filibuster Rule Is Broken and Needs Fixing, But Not by Simple Majority Vote |
| 355 | 12/05/12 | Former U.S. Senator and Vice President, Walter Mondale, Supports Changing Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 362 | 12/18/12 | Update on Changing the U.S. Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 369 | 12/31/12 | Only Three Days Until U.S. Senate Decides on Filibuster Reform |
| 371 | 01/04/13 | U.S. Senate Postpones Filibuster Reform to January 22nd |
| 377 | 01/23/13 | U.S. Senate Again Postpones Decision on Filibuster Reform |
| 378 | 01/24/13 | U.S. Senate Adopts Modest Reform of Its Filibuster Rule |
| 379 | 01/26/13 | Additional Reactions to U.S. Senate’s Adoption of Modest Reforms to Its Filibuster Rule |
| 379A | 01/27/13 | Comment: Washington Post Endorses Senate’s Reform of Its Filibuster Rule |
| 393 | 02/28/13 | GOP Senators Continue To Flirt with Filibusters |
| 415 | 04/17/13 | The Outrageous, Dysfunctional U.S. Senate |
| 420 | 04/24/13 | Evaluations of President Obama |
| 257 | 05/10/12 | Will the U.S. Senate Finally Give Its “Advice and Consent” to Ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty? |
| 265 | 05/24/12 | U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Holds Hearing on the Law of the Seas Convention |
| 265A | 05/25/12 | Comment: New York Times Reiterates Its Support of Ratification of Law of Sea Treaty |
| 265B | 05/29/12 | Comment: Analysis of Opposition to Law of Sea Treaty |
| 265C | 05/31/12 | Comment: Former Republican Secretaries of State Endorse Law of Sea Treaty |
| 265D | 06/13/12 | Comment: Former Republican Defense Secretary Opposes Law of Sea Treaty |
| 265E | 06/18/12 | Comment: Former Republican Official Disputes Rumsfeld’s Opposition to the Law of the Sea Treaty |
| 265F | 06/21/12 | Comment: Questions for Former Republican Official on Law of the Sea Treaty |
| 265G | 06/22/12 | Comment: Important Source of Commentary About the Law of the Sea Treaty |
| 265H | 06/23/12 | Comment: George Will Opposes the Law of the Sea Treaty |
| 265I | 06/26/12 | Comment: Rebuttal of Criticism of Law of Sea Treaty |
| 265J | 07/09/12 | Comment: Another Rebuttal to Rumsfeld’s Opposition to the Law of the Sea Treaty |
| 265K | 07/17/12 | Comment: Law of Sea Treaty Appears To Be Dead in Senate |
| 356 | 12/08/12 | The Difficulty of Obtaining U.S. Ratification of Multilateral Treaties |
| 11 | 04/09/11 | Unfortunate Ecuador-U.S. Diplomatic Spat |
| 26 | 05/04/11 | No to Constitutional Amendment on Taxes |
| 88 | 07/22/11 | Passionate, Committed Political Leadership |
| 89 | 07/23/11 | Disgusting U.S. Political Scene |
| 93 | 07/28/11 | The Founder of Modern Conservatism’s Perspective on the Current U.S. Political Turmoil |
| 94 | 07/29/11 | A Message for Speaker Boehner |
| 95 | 07/30/11 | Dysfunctional U.S. Congress Careens Towards U.S. Default |
| 100 | 08/02/11 | Dysfunctional U.S. Congress Averts Default |
| 104 | 08/06/11 | Downgrading the U.S. Credit Rating |
| 104A | 08/07/11 | Comment on Downgrading the U.S. Credit Rating |
| 104B | 08/08/11 | Comment: Additional Credit Ratings Downgrades by S&P |
| 368 | 12/27/12 | The U.S. Congress Continues To Demonstrate Its Dysfunctionality |
| 368A | 01/10/13 | Comment: Endorsement of Having a Bipartisan Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives |
| 374 | 01/15/13 | Additional Support for Reform of U.S. Congress |
| 151 | 10/18/11 | Perryite Laments Misuse of His Hometown by Michelle Bachmann |
| 345 | 11/10/12 | The Urgent Need for Reform of U.S. Election Systems |
| 345A | 11/11/12 | Comment: Voter Anger Against Attempts at Voting Suppression |
| 345B | 11/12/12 | Comment: Another Argument that Republican Voter Suppression Efforts Fueled Minority Voting for Democrats |
| 349 | 11/22/12 | Improving U.S. Election Procedures |
| 376 | 01/19/13 | GOP Scheming To Thwart Majority Popular Vote for President |
| 376A | 01/25/13 | Comment: Under GOP Scheme, Romney Would Have Won Electoral College in Last Election |
| 376B | 01/26/13 | Comment: “Rig the Vote” |
| 376C | 01/28/13 | Comment: More Criticism of GOP Scheme |
| 376D | 01/28/13 | Comment: Haley Barbour Says No GOP Plot To Rig Electoral College Voting |
| 376E | 02/02/13 | Comment: Washington Post Condemns GOP Scheme To Rig Electoral College |
| 105 | 08/07/11 | A “Virtual” Constitutional Convention |
| 231 | 03/28/12 | The Antiquated U.S. Constitution |
| 231A | 04/10/12 | Comment: Another Constitutional Change: Term Limits for U.S. Supreme Court Justices |
| 268 | 05/29/12 | “Our Imbecilic Constitution” |
| 268A | 07/03/12 | Comment: Questioning the Power of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 268B | 07/05/12 | Comment: The Founders Are Not Quasi-Religious Prophets |
| 268C | 07/05/12 | Comment: U.S. Needs Constitutional Changes |
| 280 | 06/19/12 | Interpreting the U.S. Constitution Regarding Economic Regulation |
| 282 | 06/23/12 | Other Approaches to Interpreting the U.S. Constitution Regarding Economic Regulation |
| 291 | 07/17/12 | Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s Textualism Theory of Legal Interpretation Is Challenged |
| 291A | 07/19/12 | Comment: Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner Are Interviewed on TV |
| 291B | 07/23/12 | Comment: Another Review of Scalia/Garner Book |
| 309 | 09/01/12 | Judge Richard Posner Critiques Justice Scalia’s Textual Originalism Theory of Interpreting Legal Texts |
| 283 | 06/24/12 | The Role of Stare Decisis in the Forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Care Act |
| 285 | 07/05/12 | The U.S. Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause After the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act |
| 287 | 07/10/12 | Proposals for Changing the U.S. Constitution |
| 246 | 04/20/12 | “Healing the Heart of Democracy” |
| 337 | 10/29/12 | Maximizing U.S. Voting! |
| 337A | 11/04/12 | Comment: Protecting the U.S. Right To Vote |
| 337B | 11/11/12 | Comment: Argument in Favor of Abolition of Electoral College |
| 337C | 11/16/12 | Comment: Abolish the Electoral College |
| 338 | 10/30/12 | Excesses of People Falsely Alleging Voter Fraud |
| 387 | 02/13/13 | Jurisdictional Black Hole for Certain Crimes by Non-Indian Men Against Indian Women on Indian Reservations |
| 394 | 03/01/13 | Congress Passes Violence Against Women Act of 2013 |
| 395 | 03/04/13 | The Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| 396 | 03/06/13 | The Voting Rights Act of 2006 |
| 397 | 03/08/13 | Prior U.S. Supreme Court Case Regarding the Voting Rights Act of 2006 |
| 399 | 03/11/13 | The D.C. Circuit’s Decision Upholding the Validity of the Voting Rights Act of 2006 |
| 402 | 03/18/13 | U.S. Supreme Court Shows Unjustified Hostility to Voting Rights Act of 2006 |
| El Salvador | ||
| 42 | 05/22/11 | The Sanctuary Movement Case |
| 44 | 05/24/11 | Becoming a Pro Bono Asylum Lawyer |
| 45 | 05/25/11 | My Pilgrimage to El Salvador, April 1989 |
| 135 | 10/05/11 | Archbishop Oscar Romero, A Saint for All People and All Time |
| 136 | 10/06/11 | Oscar Romero’s Opposition |
| 137 | 10/07/11 | Oscar Romero’s Last Homily |
| 138 | 10/08/11 | Oscar Romero’s Assassination |
| 139 | 10/09/11 | Oscar Romero’s Funeral |
| 140 | 10/10/11 | Oscar Romero’s Tomb |
| 141 | 10/11/11 | Litigation Against Conspirators in the Assassination of Oscar Romero |
| 143 | 10/13/11 | The Oscar Romero Assassination Case in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| 144 | 10/14/11 | Remembering Oscar Romero in Music |
| 146 | 10/15/11 | Remembering Oscar Romero in Film |
| 147 | 10/16/11 | Remembering Oscar Romero in Art |
| 148 | 10/17/11 | Remembering Oscar Romero in Books |
| 150 | 10/18/11 | Remembering Oscar Romero at Westminster Abbey |
| 152 | 10/20/11 | Annual Commemorations of Oscar Romero’s Life |
| 186 | 12/25/11 | Merry Christmas! |
| 176 | 12/12/11 | The Four American Churchwomen of El Salvador |
| 177 | 12/14/11 | The December 1980 Murders of the Four American Churchwomen in El Salvador |
| 179 | 12/16/11 | Non-Judicial Investigations of the 1980 Murders of the Four Churchwomen in El Salvador |
| 181 | 12/18/11 | Salvadoran Judicial Investigation and Criminal Prosecution for the 1980 Murders of the Four Churchwomen |
| 182 | 12/19/11 | The Salvadoran Truth Commission’s Investigation of the 1980 Murders of the Four Churchwomen |
| 183 | 12/20/11 | TVPA Lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court over the 1980 Murders of the American Churchwomen |
| 184 | 12/21/11 | Pilgrimage to American Churchwomen Sites in El Salvador |
| 55 | 06/02/11 | International Criminal Justice: The Salvadoran Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 57 | 06/07/11 | International Criminal Justice: Salvadoran Military’s Attempted Cover-Up of Its Committing the Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 58 | 06/08/11 | International Criminal Justice: Salvadoran Criminal Prosecution of the Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 59 | 06/09/11 | International Criminal Justice: The Jesuits Case in The Truth Commission for El Salvador |
| 61 | 06/11/11 | International Criminal Justice: El Salvador’s General Amnesty Law and Its Impact on the Jesuits Case |
| 63 | 06/14/11 | El Salvador’s General Amnesty Law in U.S. Federal Courts |
| 65 | 06/16/11 | The Current Controversy Over El Salvador’s General Amnesty Law and Supreme Court |
| 62 | 06/13/11 | International Criminal Justice: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Case Regarding the Jesuit Priests |
| 166 | 11/23/11 | Developments in El Salvador Cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| 64 | 06/15/11 | International Criminal Justice: Spanish Court’s Case Regarding the Salvadoran Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 53 | 05/31/11 | International Criminal Justice: Spanish Court Issues Criminal Arrest Warrants for Salvadoran Murders of Jesuit Priests |
| 124 | 08/26/11 | International Criminal Justice: Developments in Spanish Court’s Case Regarding the Salvadoran Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 171 | 12/03/11 | Spain Requests Extradition of Suspects in Jesuits Case |
| 171A | 02/12/12 | Comment: Ex-Salvadoran Military Officer Indicted for Alleged Violations of U.S. Immigration Laws |
| 171B | 05/10/12 | Comment: El Salvador Denies Spain’s Request for Extradition of Salvadorans for Killing of Jesuits |
| 171C | 09/15/12 | Comment: Former Salvadoran Military Officer Pleads Guilty to Lying to U.S. Immigration Officials |
| 171D | 02/05/13 | Comment: Sentencing of Colonel Montano Postponed So U.S. Court Can Hear Further Argument on Whether His Human Rights Record in El Salvador May Be Used To Increase His Sentence |
| 129 | 09/02/11 | Memory and Human Rights: Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula |
| 159 | 11/11/11 | Former Salvadoran Generals Held Liable by U.S. Courts for $54.6 Million for Failure To Stop Torture |
| 214 | 02/24/12 | Former Salvadoran Military Officer Is Determined To Have Assisted in Torture and Murder |
| 160 | 11/13/11 | Former Salvadoran Vice-Minister of Defense Held Liable by U.S. Courts for $6 Million for Torture and Extrajudicial Killing |
| 224 | 03/11/12 | The 1981 El Mozote Massacre in El Salvador |
| 224A | 04/24/12 | Comment: Inter-American Court of Human Rights Considers El Mozote Case |
| 358 | 12/13/12 | The El Mozote Massacre: The Truth Commission for El Salvador and the Subsequent Salvadoran General Amnesty Law and Dismissal of Criminal Case |
| 359 | 12/13/12 | The El Mozote Massacre: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| 360 | 12/14/12 | The El Mozote Massacre: Recent Salvadoran Efforts To Redress the Crimes |
| 361 | 12/16/12 | The El Mozote Massacre: Inter-American Court of Human Rights Determines El Salvador Violated the American Convention on Human Rights |
| CUBA | ||
| 39 | 05/20/11 | The Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” |
| 119 | 08/21/11 | U.S. Repeats Its Ridiculous Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” |
| 119A | 12/02/11 | Comment: Call for Cancelling U.S. Designation of Cuba as “State Sponsor of Terrorism” |
| 119B | 01/20/12 | Comment: Another Voice Says U.S. Designation of Cuba a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” Is Fraudulent |
| 119C | 03/28/12 | Comment: Retired U.S. General Asserts Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism |
| 300 | 08/05/12 | The Latest U.S. Report on International Terrorism |
| 301 | 08/07/12 | Yet Another Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” |
| 302 | 08/09/12 | Additional Thoughts on the Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” |
| 41 | 05/21/11 | The U.S. Should Pursue Reconciliation with Cuba |
| 41A | 11/21/11 | Comment: Additional Support for U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation |
| 41B | 07/27/12 | Comment: Cuba Reiterates Its Willingness To Discuss All Issues with U.S. |
| 41C | 10/20/12 | Comment: Another Plea for Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations |
| 131 | 09/24/11 | Commutation and Release of Convicted “Spies” |
| 132 | 09/27/11 | Roots of Hope for U.S.-Cuba Relations |
| 132A | 09/28/11 | Comment: Cuban Foreign Minister Attacks U.S. Policies |
| 133 | 09/29/11 | President Obama Is Wrong on Cuba |
| 133A | 10/15/11 | Comment: Obama and Romney Out of Touch on Cuba |
| 133B | 12/10/11 | Comment: U.S. Church Leaders Call for U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation |
| 145 | 10/14/11 | U.S. and Cuba Discuss Exchange of Prisoners |
| 145A | 10/15/11 | Comment: Cuban-Americans in Congress Criticize U.S. Willingness To Discuss Issues with Cuba |
| 157 | 10/25/11 | U.N. General Assembly Again Condemns U.S. Embargo of Cuba |
| 305 | 08/17/12 | Letter to President Obama Regarding Cuba |
| 313 | 09/07/12 | Positive Developments for Improved U.S.-Cuba Relations |
| 313A | 09/08/12 | Comment: Details on Cuba’s Assistance for Colombia-FARC Negotiations |
| 313B | 09/17/12 | Comment: Skepticism About Colombia-FARC Negotiations |
| 313C | 10/14/12 | Comment: Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez Aided Colombia and the FARC’s Agreeing to Negotiate an End to the Colombian Civil War |
| 87 | 07/21/11 | Blogging in Havana |
| 87A | 12/05/11 | Comment: Yoani Sanchez Named One of Top 100 “Global Thinkers” |
| 87B | 01/06/12 | Yoani Sanchez Pleas to Brazilian President To Help Her Get Out of Cuba |
| 87C | 01/26/12 | Comment: Brazil Grants Visa to Cuban Blogger |
| 87D | 01/31/12 | Comment: Brazil’s President Has No Comment on Whether Cuban Should Grant an Exit Visa to Cuban Blogger |
| 87E | 04/22/12 | Comment: Yoani’s Unending Dream of Leaving Cuba |
| 87F | 10/06/12 | Comment: Yoani Detained To Prevent Her Covering Trial |
| 384 | 02/06/13 | Cuban Blogger Obtains Cuban Passport and Plans Trip to Latin America, North America and Europe |
| 190 | 12/30/11 | The Cuban Revolution and Religion |
| 191 | 01/01/12 | International Law Regarding Freedom of Religion |
| 193 | 01/05/12 | U.S. Government’s Opinions on Religious Freedom in Cuba |
| 193A | 03/21/12 | Comment: U.S. Commission on International Religious Fredom’s New Report on Cuba |
| 194 | 01/08/12 | Cuban Religious Freedom According to the U.S. Commission on Assistance to a Free Cuba |
| 239 | 04/04/12 | Cuban Protestant Leader: Cuban Religious Freedom |
| 298 | 08/01/12 | The Latest U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom |
| 299 | 08/03/12 | Cuban Religious Freedom According to the Latest U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom, |
| Human Rights Treaties & U.N. Human Rights Council | ||
| 168 | 11/29/11 | The Multilateral Treaty Against Torture |
| 385 | 02/09/13 | Multilateral Treaties Ratified by the U.S. |
| 169 | 12/01/11 | U.S. Ratification of the Multilateral Treaty Against Torture |
| 170 | 12/03/11 | Supplement to Multilateral Treaty Against Torture |
| 172 | 12/05/11 | U.S. First Report to Committee Against Torture |
| 174 | 12/08/11 | U.S. Second Report to Committee Against Torture |
| 375 | 01/16/13 | U.S. Ratification of the Genocide Convention |
| 383 | 02/05/13 | U.S. Ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| 386 | 02/12/13 | Multilateral Human Rights Treaties Signed, But Not Ratified, by the U.S. |
| 388 | 02/16/13 | Multilateral Human Rights Treaties Not Signed and Ratified by the U.S. |
| 191 | 01/01/12 | International Law Regarding Freedom of Religion |
| 199 | 01/21/12 | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Issues Important Decision on Judicial Independence |
| 200 | 01/21/12 | Spain Invokes Universal Jurisdiction for three Criminal Cases Against U.S. Officials and Soldiers |
| 201 | 01/23/12 | Spain’s Criminal Case Over Alleged U.S. Torture of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
| 201A | 02/09/12 | Comment: Details of U.S. Torture of Guantanamo Detainee Provided to Spanish Court |
| 202 | 01/25/12 | Spain’s Criminal Case Against Authors of U.S. Legal Memoranda Allegedly Justifying Torture |
| 211 | 02/18/12 | The Persistence of the Inquisition |
| 229 | 03/25/12 | The U.N. Human Rights Council |
| 229A | 03/27/12 | Comment: Israel Suspends Relationship with U.N. Human Rights Council |
| 230 | 03/27/12 | U.N. Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of the United States’ Human Rights Record |
| 236 | 04/01/12 | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Decides Guantanamo Bay Detainee’s Case Against U.S. Is Admissible on the Merits |
| 234 | 03/31/12 | Methods of Enforcing International Human Rights Norms |
| 269 | 05/30/12 | U.S. Releases Annual Report on Human Rights in the World |
| 250 | 04/24/12 | U.S. Established Atrocities Prevention Board |
| 279 | 06/17/12 | Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize |
| 320 | 09/19/12 | The Importance of Protecting Foreign Diplomats and Diplomatic Missions |
| 403 | 03/24/13 | Organization of American States Strengthens Inter-American Human Rights System |
| 404 | 03/26/13 | Failed Efforts To Weaken the Inter-American Human Rights System |
| Refugee & Asylum Law | ||
| 82 | 07/07/11 | Refugee and Asylum Law: Pre-Modern Era |
| 83 | 07/09/11 | Refugee and Asylum Law: Modern Era |
| 85 | 07/10/11 | Refugee and Asylum Law: Office of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees |
| 233 | 03/30/12 | World of Refugees |
| 306 | 08/25/12 | Ecuador’s Dispute with the United Kingdom and Sweden Over Julian Assange: Background |
| 307 | 08/26/12 | Ecuador’s Dispute with the United Kingdom and Sweden Over Julian Assange: The Inviolability of Ecuador’s Embassy |
| 307A | 08/27/12 | Comment: United Kingdom Reiterates Desire for Renewed Negotiations with Ecuador |
| 307B | 08/30/12 | Comment: Ecuadorian Optimism Over Resolution of Dispute |
| 308 | 08/30/12 | Ecuador’s Dispute with the United Kingdom and Sweden Over Julian Assange: Ecuador’s Grant of Asylum to Assange |
| 308A | 08/31/12 | Comment: Developments in Dispute between Ecuador and U.K. and Sweden |
| 308B | 09/04/12 | Comment: Developments in Dispute between Ecuador and U.K. and Sweden # 2 |
| 308C | 09/06/12 | Comment: Developments in Dispute between Ecuador and U.K. and Sweden # 3 |
| 308D | 09/21/12 | Comment: U.K. Foreign Minister’s Statement About the Assange Matter |
| 308E | 09/24/12 | Comment: Ecuador Considers Suggesting Assange Be Interrogated in Sweden |
| 308F | 09/28/12 | Comment: AssangeDevelopments in New York City and London |
| 308G | 10/09/12 | Comment: Assange Developments |
| 308H | 10/25/12 | Comment: Assange To Stay in Ecuadorian Embassy |
| 308I | 11/01/12 | Comment: Assange’s Attorney Asks U.S. Attorney General fro Information |
| Alien Tort Statute | ||
| 153 | 10/21/11 | The Alien Tort Statute, 1789-1979, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/10/21/the-alien-tort-statute-1789-1979/ |
| 154 | 10/23/11 | U.S. Circuit Court’s 1980 Decision Validates Use of Alien Tort Statute To Hold Foreign Human Rights Violators Accountable, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/10/23/u-s-circuit-courts-1980-decision-validates-use-of-alien-tort-statute-to-hold-foreign-human-rights-violators-accountable/ |
| 155 | 10/25/11 | The Alien Tort Statute, 1980-2004, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/10/25/the-alien-tort-statute-1980-2004/ |
| 158 | 11/09/11 | Alien Tort Statute Interpreted by U.S. Supreme Court in 2004, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/10/23/the-alien-tort-statute-interpreted-by-the-u-s-supreme-court-in-2004/ |
| 161 | 11/14/11 | The Alien Tort Statute, 2004-Present, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/11/14/the-u-s-alien-tort-statute-2004-present/ |
| 141 | 10/11/11 | Litigation Against Conspirators in the Assassination of Oscar Romero, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/10/11/litigation-against-conspirators-in-the-assassination-of-oscar-romero/ |
| 159 | 11/11/11 | Former Salvadoran Generals Held Liable by U.S. Courts for $54.6 Million for Failure To Stop Torture, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/11/11/former-salvadoran-generals-held-liable-by-u-s-courts-for-54-6-million-for-failure-to-stop-torture/ |
| 160 | 11/13/11 | Former Salvadoran Vice-Minister of Defense Held Liable by U.S. Courts for $6 Million for Torture and Extrajudicial Killing, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/11/13/former-salvadoran-vice-minister-of-defense-held-liable-by-u-s-courts-for-6-million-for-torture-and-extrajudicial-killing-2/ |
| 316 | 09/12/12 | The U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/09/12/the-u-s-foreign-sovereign-immunities-act/ |
| 317 | 09/14/12 | U.S. Supreme Court Decides that Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Does Not Apply to Former Foreign Government Official, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/09/14/u-s-supreme-court-decides-that-foreign-sovereign-immunities-act-does-not-apply-to-former-foreign-government-official/ |
| 318 | 09/15/12 | U.S. District Court Decides That Former Somali Government Official Is Not Entitled to Common Law Immunity and Is Liable for $21 Million of Compensatory and Punitive Damages, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/09/15/u-s-district-court-decides-that-former-somali-government-official-is-not-entitled-to-common-law-immunity-and-is-liable-for-21-million-of-compensatory-and-punitive-damages/ |
| 342 | 11/07/12 | Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Common Law Immunity to Former Somali Official, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/11/07/appellate-court-affirms-denial-of-common-law-immunity-to-former-somali-official/ |
| 189 | 12/29/11 | Former President of Mexico Is Sued in U.S. Federal Court for Alleged Human Rights Violations |
| 189A | 01/10/12 | Comment: Former President of Mexico’s Dismissal Motion |
| 319 | 09/17/12 | U.S. State Department Suggests Former President of Mexico Is Immune from Suit in U.S. Federal Court for Alleged Human Rights Violations, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/09/17/the-u-s-state-department-suggests-former-president-of-mexico-is-immune-from-suit-in-u-s-federal-court-for-alleged-human-rights-violations/ |
| 319A | 10/17/12 | Comment: District Court Orders Plaintiffs To Show Cause Why Case Should Not Be Dismissed |
| 398 | 03/10/13 | Mexican Court Invalidates Former Mexican President’s Claim of Immunity from Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victims Protection Act Case in U.S., http://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/03/10/mexican-court-invalidates-former-mexican-presidents-claim-of-immunity-from-alien-tort-statute-and-torture-victims-protection-act-case-in-u-s/ |
| 405 | 03/26/13 | Additional Thoughts on U.S. and Mexican Legal Issues in the Pending U.S. Lawsuit Against Ernesto Zedillo, Former Mexican President, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/03/26/additional-thoughts-about-mexican-and-u-s-legal-issues-in-the-pending-u-s-lawsuit-against-ernesto-zedillo-former-president-of-mexico/ |
| 406 | 03/28/13 | Mexican Court Decision Is Filed in U.S. Case, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/03/28/mexican-court-decision-regarding-zedillo-immunity-is-filed-in-u-s-case/ |
| 414 | 04/17/13 | Former Mexican President Tells U.S. Court To ignore Mexican Court Decision |
| 339 | 11/01/12 | Case Against Corporations under the Alien Tort Statute Allowed To Proceed, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/11/01/case-against-corporations-under-the-alien-tort-statute-is-allowed-to-proceed/ |
| 339A | 03/28/13 | Comment: District Court Dismisses Complaint Against Two Corporations |
| 372 | 01/09/13 | Alien Tort Statute Case Against a Corporation Is Settled by Its Paying $5.28 Million, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/01/09/alien-tort-statute-case-against-a-corporation-is-settled-with-its-payment-of-5-28-million/ |
| 84 | 07/09/11 | Alien Tort Statute: Important Cases Heading to U.S. Supreme Court, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/07/09/alien-tort-statute-important-cases-heading-to-u-s-supreme-court/ |
| 84A | 03/25/13 | Comment: D.C. Circuit Case Regarding Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute Is Stayed Pending U.s. Supreme Court Decision in Kiobel |
| 149 | 10/17/11 | U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Cases Challenging Whether Corporations Can Be Held Liable for Aiding and Abetting Foreign Human Rights Violations, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/10/17/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-cases-challenging-whether-corporations-can-be-held-liable-for-aiding-and-abetting-foreign-human-rights-violations/ |
| 215 | 02/25/12 | Procedural Background for U.S. Supreme Court Argument in Kiobel on Corporate Liability for Foreign Human Rights Violations, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/02/25/procedural-background-for-u-s-supreme-court-argument-in-kiobel-case-on-corporate-liability-for-foreign-human-rights-violations/ |
| 216 | 02/26/12 | Second Circuit’s Decision in Kiobel Rejecting Corporate Liability for Assisting Foreign Human Rights Violations, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/02/26/second-circuits-decision-in-kiobel-rejecting-corporate-liability-for-, assisting-foreign-human-rights-violations/ |
| 220 | 03/02/12 | U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case That May Decide If Corporations Are Liable Under the Alien Tort Statute, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/03/02/u-s-supreme-court-hears-case-that-may-decide-if-corporations-are-liable-under-the-alien-tort-statute/ |
| 223 | 03/10/12 | U.S. Supreme Court Orders Rehearing in Kiobel Case, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/03/10/u-s-supreme-court-orders-rehearing-in-kiobel-case-regarding-extraterritorial-application-of-the-alien-tort-statute/ |
| 223A | 03/11/12 | Comment: Response to Erik Hare |
| 223B | 07/23/12 | Comment: Law Professors Say Alien Tort Statute Was Intended To Have Extraterritorial Effect |
| 223C | 03/28/13 | Comment: Rio Tinto Case Being Held by Supreme Court Until After Its Decision in Kiobel |
| 327 | 10/04/12 | Re-Argument of Important Human Rights Case in U.S. Supreme Court, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/10/04/re-argument-of-important-human-rights-case-in-u-s-supreme-court/ |
| 327A | 10/05/12 | Comment: Wall Street Journal Reiterates Its Opposition to Alien Tort Statute |
| 416 | 04/18/13 | The U.S. Supreme Court Severely Limits Application of Alien Tort Statute |
| 255 | 05/04/12 | Federal Appellate Court Grants Immunity to Author of Legal Memoranda Regarding U.S. Detention and Interrogation of Suspects in the “War on Terrorism” |
| 255A | 05/09/12 | Comment: More Criticism of Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Case Against Author of Legal Memoranda Regarding U.S. Treatment and Interrogation of Detainees |
| 167 | 11/26/11 | Important Sovereign Immunities Case |
| 214 | 02/24/12 | Former Salvadoran Military Officer Is Determined To Have Assisted in Torture and Murder [U.S. Immigration Crime], |
| 413 | 04/14/13 | Enforcement of International Human Rights Norms with U.S. Immigration Laws |
| 241 | 04/09/12 | Netherlands Court Awards Monetary Damages to Palestinian for Libyan Torture |
| 241A | 04/18/12 | Comment: Libyans Sue Former U.K. Foreign Minister over Alleged Complicity in Libyan Torture |
| Torture Victims Protection Act | ||
| 175 | 12/10/11 | The Torture Victims Protection Act, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/11/14/the-u-s-alien-tort-statute-2004-present/ |
| 183 | 12/ 20/11 | TVPA Lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court Over the Murders of the American Churchwomen, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/12/20/tvpa-lawsuit-in-u-s-federal-court-over-the-murders-of-the-american-churchwomen-2/ |
| 159 | 11/11/11 | Former Salvadoran Generals Held Liable by U.S. Courts for $54.6 Million for Failure To Stop Torture, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/11/11/former-salvadoran-generals-held-liable-by-u-s-courts-for-54-6-million-for-failure-to-stop-torture/ |
| 160 | 11/13/11 | Former Salvadoran Vice-Minister of Defense Held Liable by U.S. Courts for $6 Million for Torture and Extrajudicial Killing, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/11/13/former-salvadoran-vice-minister-of-defense-held-liable-by-u-s-courts-for-6-million-for-torture-and-extrajudicial-killing-2/ |
| 316 | 09/12/12 | The U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/09/12/the-u-s-foreign-sovereign-immunities-act/ |
| 317 | 09/14/12 | U.S. Supreme Court Decides that Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Does Not Apply to Former Foreign Government Official, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/09/14/u-s-supreme-court-decides-that-foreign-sovereign-immunities-act-does-not-apply-to-former-foreign-government-official/ |
| 318 | 09/15/12 | U.S. District Court Decides That Former Somali Government Official Is Not Entitled to Common Law Immunity and Is Liable for $21 Million of Compensatory and Punitive Damages, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/09/15/u-s-district-court-decides-that-former-somali-government-official-is-not-entitled-to-common-law-immunity-and-is-liable-for-21-million-of-compensatory-and-punitive-damages/ |
| 342 | 11/07/12 | Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Common Law Immunity to Former Somali Official, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/11/07/appellate-court-affirms-denial-of-common-law-immunity-to-former-somali-official/ |
| 189 | 12/29/11 | Former President of Mexico Is Sued in U.S. Federal Court for Alleged Human Rights Violations, |
| 189A | 01/10/12 | Comment: Former President of Mexico’s Dismissal Motion |
| 319 | 09/17/12 | U.S. State Department Suggests Former President of Mexico Is Immune from Suit in U.S. Federal Court for Alleged Human Rights Violations, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/09/17/the-u-s-state-department-suggests-former-president-of-mexico-is-immune-from-suit-in-u-s-federal-court-for-alleged-human-rights-violations/ |
| 319A | 10/17/12 | Comment: District Court Orders Plaintiffs To Show Cause Why Case Should Not Be Dismissed |
| 398 | 03/10/13 | Mexican Court Invalidates Former Mexican President’s Claim of Immunity from Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victims Protection Act Case in U.S., http://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/03/10/mexican-court-invalidates-former-mexican-presidents-claim-of-immunity-from-alien-tort-statute-and-torture-victims-protection-act-case-in-u-s/ |
| 405 | 03/26/13 | Additional Thoughts on U.S. and Mexican Legal Issues in the Pending U.S. Lawsuit Against Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/03/26/additional-thoughts-about-mexican-and-u-s-legal-issues-in-the-pending-u-s-lawsuit-against-ernesto-zedillo-former-president-of-mexico/ |
| 406 | 03/28/13 | Mexican Court Decision Is Filed in U.S. Case, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/03/28/mexican-court-decision-regarding-zedillo-immunity-is-filed-in-u-s-case/ |
| 149 | 10/17/11 | U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Cases Challenging Whether Corporations Can Be Held Liable for Aiding and Abetting Foreign Human Rights Violations, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2011/10/17/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-cases-challenging-whether-corporations-can-be-held-liable-for-aiding-and-abetting-foreign-human-rights-violations/ |
| 217 | 02/26/12 | U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Another Case Regarding Corporate Liability for Assisting Torture and Extrajudicial Killing, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/02/26/u-s-supreme-court-to-consider-another-case-regarding-corporate-liability-for-assisting-torture-or-extrajudicial-killing/ |
| 219 | 03/01/12 | U.S. Supreme Court Hints That It Will Decide That Corporations Are Not Liable Under the Torture Victims Protection Act, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/03/01/u-s-supreme-court-hints-that-it-will-decide-that-corporations-are-not-liable-under-the-torture-victims-protection-act/ |
| 245 | 04/19/12 | Legal Entities Not Liable under the Torture Victims Protection Act, http://dwkcommentaries.com/2012/04/19/legal-entities-not-liable-under-the-torture-victims-protection-act/ |
| 245A | 04/20/12 | Comment: Human Rights Group Calls for Congress To Amend the TVPA To Subject Organizations to Liability |
| International Criminal Justice | ||
| 22 | 04/26/11 | International Criminal Justice: Introduction |
| 47 | 05/27/11 | International Criminal Justice: Mladic To Face Charges at ICTY |
| 54 | 06/01/11 | International Criminal Justice: Mladic Update |
| 54A | 05/17/12 | Comment: Trial of Former Bosnian Serb Military Commander Starts |
| 54B | 05/18/12 | Comment: Mladic Tial Delayed |
| 54C | 05/25/12 | Comment: Mladic Trial To Resume |
| 54D | 07/10/12 | Comment: Mladic Trial Resumes |
| 54E | 07/13/12 | Comment: Mladic Ill and Trial Suspended |
| 67 | 06/18/11 | International Criminal Justice: Winding Down Two Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals |
| 67A | 12/19/11 | Comment: Continued Problems in Winding Down Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals |
| 81 | 07/04/11 | International Criminal Justice: Libya, Sudan, Rwanda and Serbia Developments |
| 48 | 05/28/11 | International Criminal Justice: The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals |
| 118 | 08/20/11 | International Criminal Justice: Other International Criminal Tribunals |
| 251 | 04/26/12 | Former President of Liberia Convicted of Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes |
| 251A | 05/17/12 | Comment: Charles Taylor’s Sentencing Hearing |
| 251B | 05/30/12 | Comment: Charles Taylor Sentenced to 50 Years Imprisonment |
| 252 | 04/27/12 | Reactions to Charles Taylor’s Conviction |
| 252A | 04/29/12 | Comment: Additional Reactions to Conviction of Charles Taylor |
| 252B | 05/09/12 | Comment: Another Criticism of the Charles Taylor Conviction |
| 71 | 06/22/11 | International Criminal Justice: U.S. Reportedly Failed To Detain Rwandan Indictee of Spanish Court |
| 173 | 12/06/11 | Universal Jurisdiction for the Most Serious Crimes |
| 264 | 05/20/12 | South Africa Invokes Universal Jurisdiction for Alleged Crimes in Zimbabwe |
| 264A | 06/08/12 | Comment: Zimbabwe President Asks for Halt to South African Investigation |
| 200 | 01/21/12 | Spain Invokes Universal Jurisdiction for Three Criminal Cases Against U.S. Officials and Soldiers |
| 201 | 01/23/12 | Spain’s Criminal Case Over Alleged U.S. Torture of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
| 201A | 02/09/12 | Comment: Details of U.S. Torture of Guantanamo Bay Detainee Submitted to Spanish Court |
| 202 | 01/25/12 | Spain’s Criminal Case Against Authors of U.S. Legal Memoranda Allegedly Justifying Torture |
| 202A | 02/05/13 | Comment: Spanish Supreme Court Dismissal of Appeal of Staying Spanish Criminal Case Against the “Bush Six” |
| 203 | 01/28/12 | Spain’s Criminal Case Over Alleged U.S. Killing of Spanish Journalist in Iraq |
| 204 | 01/31/12 | Alleged Interference with Spanish Judicial Process by U.S. and Spanish Officials |
| 264 | 05/20/12 | South Africa Invokes Universal Jurisdiction for Alleged Crimes in Zimbabwe |
| 205 | 02/07/12 | Spain’s Criminal Cases Against Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon |
| 206 | 02/09/12 | Judge Garzon Convicted in Case Involving Bugging of Attorney-Client Communications |
| 207 | 02/10/12 | Reactions to Judge Garzon’s Conviction |
| 208 | 02/11/12 | Reactions to Spanish Criminal Cases Against Judge Baltasar Garzon |
| 267 | 05/26/12 | European Judicial Group Calls for Pardon of Garzon |
| 209 | 02/13/12 | Dismissal of Criminal Case Against Judge Garzon |
| 210 | 02/14/12 | Commentary on Spanish Criminal Cases Against Judge Garzon |
| 213 | 02/21/12 | Update on Reactions to Spanish Criminal Cases Against Judge Garzon |
| 213A | 02/23/12 | Comment: Further Developments in Garzon Criminal Cases |
| 218 | 02/29/12 | Dismissal of Spanish Criminal Case Against Judge Baltasar Garzon Over Franco-Era Investigation |
| 235 | 04/01/12 | Garzon Calls for Spanish Truth Commission Regarding Franco Regime’s Crimes |
| 237 | 04/02/12 | Are International Criminal Tribunals Successful? |
| International Criminal Court | ||
| 24 | 04/28/11 | The International Criminal Court: Introduction |
| 29 | 05/11/11 | The International Criminal Court and the Clinton Administration |
| 30 | 05/12/11 | The International Criminal Court and the G. W. Bush Administration |
| 31 | 05/13/11 | The International Criminal Court and the Obama Administration |
| 32 | 05/15/11 | The International Criminal Court: The Crime of Aggression |
| 25 | 04/28/11 | The International Criminal Court: Investigations and Prosecutions |
| 310 | 09/03/12 | Should the International Criminal Court Indict George W. Bush and Tony Blair over Iraq? |
| 122 | 08/24/11 | International Criminal Court: ICC’s First Trial To End This Week |
| 227 | 03/20/12 | International Criminal Court’s First Conviction |
| 227A | 07/10/12 | Comment: ICC Sentences Lubanga to 14 Years Imprisonment |
| 227B | 07/10/12 | Comment: More Details About ICC’s Sentencing of Lubanga |
| 117 | 08/19/11 | International Criminal Court: Protection of Witnesses |
| 66 | 06/17/11 | International Criminal Court: ICC Prosecutor Updates U.N. Security Council on Sudan (Darfur) |
| 66A | 12/20/11 | Comment: ICC Prosecutor Updates U.N. Security Council on Investigation of Sudan (Darfur) |
| 163 | 11/18/11 | International Criminal Court: Recent Developments in Other ICC Investigations and Cases |
| 163A | 11/20/11 | Comment: U.S. Military Forces to Remain in Uganda |
| 163B | 12/02/11 | Comment: ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrant for Sudanese Official |
| 163C | 12/02/11 | Comment: Former Ivory Cost President in ICC Custody |
| 163D | 04/30/12 | Comment: U.S. Military Forces Hunt for Joseph Kony |
| 27 | 05/08/11 | The International Criminal Court: Libya Investigation Status |
| 10 | 04/08/11 | Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Supports U.N. Security Council on Libya |
| 33 | 05/16/11 | The International Criminal Court: Three Libyan Arrest Warrants Sought |
| 35 | 05/17/11 | The International Criminal Court: Investigation of Gang-Rape in Libya |
| 75 | 06/27/11 | The International Criminal Court: Issuance of Libyan Arrest Warrants and Other Developments |
| 81 | 07/04/11 | International Criminal Justice: Libya, Sudan, Rwanda and Serbia Developments |
| 120 | 08/22/11 | International Criminal Court: Potential Arrests of Three Libyan Suspects |
| 130 | 09/09/11 | International Criminal Court: ICC Prosecutor Seeking INTERPOL Red Notice for Gaddafi |
| 162 | 11/16/11 | International Criminal Court: Recent Developments in ICC’s Libyan Investigation and Cases |
| 162A | 11/19/11 | Comment: Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi Is Arrested |
| 162B | 11/20/11 | Comment: Abdullah al-Senussi Arrested |
| 162C | 11/21/11 | Comment: Options for Trials of Seif Qaddifi and Senussi |
| 162D | 11/22/11 | Comment: ICC Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor in Libya To Discuss Future Trials |
| 162E | 11/23/11 | Comment: ICC Prosecutor Reports on Libyan Discussions |
| 162F | 11/24/11 | Comment: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber Disagrees with ICC Prosecutor Over Libyan Trials |
| 162G | 01/09/12 | Comment: Saif Qaddafi Still in Custody in Libya |
| 162H | 01/18/12 | Comment: Unresolved Issues for Any Attempt by Libya To Prosecute Two Individuals under ICC Arrest Warrants |
| 162I | 05/01/12 | Comment: Libya Asks ICC To Allow Libya To Investigate and Prosecute the Two Libyans under ICC Arrest Warrants |
| 266 | 05/26/12 | U.N. Security Council Briefing on Libya by International Criminal Court Prosecutor |
| 68 | 06/18/11 | International Criminal Court: Possible U.N. Security Council Referral of Syrian Human Rights Abuses to ICC |
| 164 | 11/20/11 | International Criminal Court: Recent Developments in Proposed ICC Investigations |
| 164A | 12/02/11 | Comment: U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Urges U.N. Security Council To Refer Syrian Situation to ICC |
| 164B | 12/14/11 | Comment: U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Calls for Security Council Referral of Syria to ICC |
| 43 | 05/23/11 | International Criminal Court: Prosecutor Seeks To Open Investigation of Ivory Coast |
| 134 | 10/03/11 | International Criminal Court: Investigation of Ivory Coast Is Authorized |
| 72 | 06/23/11 | International Criminal Court: Basics of Its Upcoming Judicial Election |
| 73 | 06/24/11 | International Criminal Court: Specified and Recommended Qualifications for ICC Judges |
| 74 | 06/25/11 | International Criminal Court: Its Upcoming Prosecutor Election |
| 156 | 10/25/11 | International Criminal Court: Four People Recommended for Election as ICC Prosecutor |
| 165 | 11/22/11 | International Criminal Court: New States Parties, Judges and Prosecutor |
| 165A | 11/28/11 | Comment: List of Possible New ICC Prosecutor Is Narrowed to Two People |
| 165B | 12/01/11 | Comment: Consensus on New ICC Prosecutor |
| 178 | 12/15/11 | International Criminal Court: New ICC Prosecutor Promises To Work To End Impunity for Worst Human Rights Violators |
| 180 | 12/17/11 | International Criminal Court: Six New Judges Elected |
| 222 | 03/09/12 | International Criminal Court’s New Judges Take Office |
| 228 | 03/22/12 | International Criminal Court: Other Recent Developments |
| 228A | 03/24/12 | Comment: African Union Military Action Against the Lord’s Resistance Army |
| 232 | 03/29/12 | International Criminal Court and Victims |
| 240 | 04/07/12 | International Criminal Court: More Developments |
| 240A | 04/07/12 | Comment: Libya To Defy ICC Order To Turn Over Gaddafi to ICC |
| 240B | 04/10/12 | Comment: Speedy Libyan Trial for Seif-al Qaddafi |
| 273 | 06/08/12 | ICC Prosecutor Reports About Sudan/Darfur to U.N. Security Council |
| 278 | 06/16/12 | International Criminal Court: Recent Developments |
| 278A | 06/22/12 | Comment: ICC-Libyan Meeting Regarding Detention of Four ICC Staff Members |
| 278B | 06/26/12 | Comment: Libya Official Accuses ICC Official of Illegally Bringing Letter and Spying Device to Gaddafi |
| 278C | 07/02/12 | Comment: Libya Releases ICC Staff Members |
| 278D | 07/08/12 | Comment: ICC Staff Member Denies Illegality in Libya |
| 292 | 07/18/12 | Mali Refers Current Situation in Its Country to International Criminal Court |
| 248 | 04/23/12 | International Criminal Court Launches 10th Anniversary Website |
| 80 | 07/02/11 | Supporting International Criminal Justice and the International Criminal Court |
| 286 | 07/08/12 | Is the International Criminal Court Flawed? |
| 407 | 04/01/13 | International Criminal Court: Status of Its Situations and Cases |
| 408 | 04/02/13 | International Criminal Court: Other Developments |
| 409 | 04/03/13 | International Criminal Court: the U.S. and the ICC |
| 411 | 04/09/13 | Are the International Criminal Court’s Kenyan Cases Collapsing? |
| Miscellaneous | ||
| 40 | 05/20/11 | Two Women “Shakers” Rock Minneapolis Dinner |
| 281 | 06/21/12 | Somali Immigrant Meets Star of “M*A*S*H” TV Show |
| 281A | 06/25/12 | Comment: Mike Farrell’s Speech at Dinner for Advocates for Human Rights |
| 212 | 02/20/12 | Is Chad Harbach’s “The Art of Fielding” a Great Novel? |
| 212A | 06/16/12 | Comment: Catcher–The Toughest Position in Baseball |
| 212B | 07/29/12 | Comment: Catcher–The Mental Demands of the Position |
| 212C | 10/05/12 | Comment: Additional Reflections on Baseball’s Catcher |
| 225 | 03/12/12 | The Art of Fact: Weaving Your Personal Story into Historical Context |
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