Foreign Relations Law : Cases and Materials

by Bradley, Curtis A.; Goldsmith, Jack L.

• ISBN13: 9780735528406
• ISBN10: 0735528403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Summary

Examining the constitutional and statutory law that regulates contemporary U.S. foreign relations, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials draws on the expertise of Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith to present a concise and current analysis of this important area of study. This comprehensive text is organized into nine main sections: Introduction: Historical and Conceptual Foundations Courts and Foreign Relations Congress And The President in Foreign Affairs War Powers States and Foreign Affairs Treaties and Other International Agreements Customary International Law Extraterritoriality Foreign Sovereign Immunity When you examine the book, be sure to notice: its cohesive thematic framework that illuminates the importance of constitutional structure, The blurred line between domestic and foreign affairs, And The connections among cases the strong coverage of contemporary controversies, such as issues concerning the laws of terrorism, The validity of congressional-executive agreements, The scope of treaty power, The legitimacy of international human rights litigation, And The propriety of judicial deference To The Executive Branch strong case notes that sketch the rich history of foreign relations law examples and illustrations of political events and conflicts treatment of major cases, such as Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp., Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, Goldwater v. Carter, Missouri v. Holland, United States v. Alvarez-Machain, and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer for a course that concentrates on foreign policy issues and international cases in which the United States exercises jurisdiction, there is no casebook more timely or illuminating than Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials .

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
Editorial Notice	xxi
Overview of International Law and Institutions	xxiii
Introduction: Historical and Conceptual Foundations	1	(38)
Constitutional Background	1	(11)
Declaration of Independence	2	(2)
Articles of Confederation	4	(1)
The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865	4	(2)
Bradford Perkins
Making Foreign Policy---The View from 1787	6	(1)
Jack N. Rakove
United States Constitution	7	(1)
Federalist No. 3 (Jay)	8	(1)
Federalist No. 4 (Jay)	8	(1)
Federalist No. 11 (Hamilton)	9	(1)
Federalist No. 15 (Hamilton)	9	(1)
Federalist No. 41 (Madison)	10	(1)
Federalist No. 42 (Madison)	10	(1)
Federalist No. 64 (Jay)	10	(1)
Federalist No. 75 (Hamilton)	11	(1)
Federalist No. 80 (Hamilton)	11	(1)
Notes and Questions	12	(1)
Neutrality Controversy of 1793	12	(13)
Proclamation of Neutrality, April 22, 1793	13	(1)
``Pacificus'' No. 1	14	(3)
``Helvidius'' Nos. 1, 2	17	(4)
Grand Jury Charge of John Jay	21	(1)
Neutrality Act of 1794	22	(1)
Notes and Questions	23	(2)
Nature of U.S. Foreign Relations Authority	25	(14)
Ex Parte Merryman	26	(1)
Chinese Exclusion Case (Chae Chan Ping v. United States)	27	(2)
Carter v. Carter Coal Co.	29	(1)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.	30	(4)
Notes and Questions	34	(5)
Courts and Foreign Relations	39	(68)
Jurisdiction over Foreign Relations Cases	39	(2)
Justiciability: Standing, Ripeness, Mootness	41	(6)
Raines v. Byrd	41	(4)
Notes and Questions	45	(2)
Political Question Doctrine	47	(13)
Baker v. Carr	48	(2)
Goldwater v. Carter	50	(4)
Japan Whaling Association v. American Cetacean Society	54	(3)
Notes and Questions	57	(3)
Act of State Doctrine	60	(31)
The Sabbatino Decision	61	(1)
Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino	62	(8)
Notes and Questions	70	(4)
Limitations and Exceptions	74	(1)
First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba	74	(7)
W.S. Kirkpatrick & Co. v. Environmental Tectonics Corp., Int'l	81	(3)
Notes and Questions	84	(3)
Note on Forum Non Conveniens and International Comity	87	(4)
Judicial Deference to the Executive Branch	91	(16)
Mingtai Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. United Parcel Service	91	(3)
Gonzalez v. Reno	94	(3)
United States v. Lombera-Camorlinga	97	(5)
Notes and Questions	102	(5)
Congress and the President in Foreign Relations	107	(54)
Sources of Congressional Power	108	(17)
Buttfield v. Stranahan	108	(1)
United States v. Arjona	109	(2)
Fong Yue Ting v. United States	111	(5)
Notes and Questions	116	(9)
Sources of Executive Power	125	(16)
The Monroe Doctrine	125	(1)
Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography	126	(1)
William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers	126	(1)
Robert Kagan, A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua	127	(1)
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer	128	(8)
Notes and Questions	136	(5)
Relationship Between Congress and the President	141	(20)
Dames & Moore v. Regan	142	(6)
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha	148	(6)
Notes and Questions	154	(7)
War Powers	161	(114)
Historical Background	161	(7)
Federalist No. 41 (Madison)	163	(1)
Federalist No. 69 (Hamilton)	163	(1)
Federalist No. 74 (Hamilton)	163	(2)
``Pacificus'' No. 1 (Hamilton)	165	(1)
``Helvidius'' No. 4 (Madison)	165	(1)
Notes and Questions	166	(2)
Congress's Power to Declare of War	168	(16)
Bas v. Tingy	170	(3)
Dellums v. Bush	173	(4)
Notes and Questions	177	(7)
The President's Military Powers	184	(14)
Little v. Barreme	184	(2)
United States v. Smith	186	(3)
Durand v. Hollins	189	(1)
The Prize Cases	190	(2)
Notes and Questions	192	(6)
War Powers Resolution	198	(15)
War Powers Resolution	198	(1)
President Nixon's Message Vetoing the War Powers Resolution	199	(2)
Campbell v. Clinton	201	(7)
Joint Resolution of Congress Authorizing the Use of Force	208	(1)
President's Letter to Congress on American Campaign Against Terrorism	209	(1)
President's Letter to Congress on American Response to Terrorism	209	(1)
Notes and Questions	210	(3)
Collective Uses of Force	213	(12)
The United Nations Charter, Collective Security, and the Korean War	214	(1)
The United Nations Charter	214	(1)
The United Nations Participation Act	215	(1)
The Korean War	215	(2)
NATO, Collective Self-Defense, and the Kosovo Bombing	217	(1)
Collective Self-Defense Treaties	217	(1)
The 1999 Bombing of Yugoslavia	218	(1)
Notes and Questions	219	(6)
Military Commissions	225	(21)
Ex Parte Milligan	226	(4)
Ex Parte Quirin	230	(7)
Military Order of President George W. Bush	237	(2)
Notes and Questions	239	(7)
War and Individual Liberties	246	(29)
Schenck v. United States	246	(1)
Abrams v. United States	247	(4)
Korematsu v. United States	251	(6)
New York Times v. United States	257	(6)
Notes and Questions	263	(4)
Note on Civil Liberties Following the September 11 Attacks	267	(8)
States and Foreign Relations	275	(62)
Statutory Preemption	276	(17)
Hines v. Davidowitz	276	(4)
De Canas v. Bica	280	(3)
Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council	283	(7)
Notes and Questions	290	(3)
Treaty Preemption	293	(7)
Clark v. Allen	293	(2)
In re World War II Era Japanese Forced Labor Litigation	295	(4)
Notes and Questions	299	(1)
Dormant Preemption	300	(21)
Zschernig v. Miller	300	(4)
Note on the Dormant Foreign Commerce Clause	304	(1)
Barclays Bank v. Franchise Tax Board of California	305	(4)
National Foreign Trade Council v. Natsios	309	(3)
Gerling Global Reinsurance Corp. of America v. Low	312	(1)
Notes and Questions	313	(8)
Federal Common Law of Foreign Relations	321	(16)
Republic of the Philippines v. Marcos	322	(2)
Torres v. Southern Peru Copper	324	(1)
Pacheco de Perez v. AT&T Co.	325	(2)
Patrickson v. Dole Food Co.	327	(4)
Notes and Questions	331	(2)
Note on the Export Clause and Port Preference Clause	333	(4)
Treaties and Other International Agreements	337	(90)
The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, 1789-1801	337	(2)
David P. Currie
Self-Execution	339	(9)
Asakura v. City of Seattle	340	(1)
United States v. Postal	341	(3)
Frolova v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	344	(1)
Notes and Questions	345	(3)
Last-in-Time Rule	348	(11)
Whitney v. Robertson	348	(2)
Cook v. United States	350	(1)
Breard v. Greene	351	(2)
Notes and Questions	353	(3)
Note on Treaty Termination and Reinterpretation	356	(3)
Separation of Powers and Delegation Limitations	359	(14)
Relationship with Congress's Power	359	(1)
Edwards v. Carter	359	(5)
Notes and Questions	364	(1)
Delegation of Authority to International Institutions	365	(8)
Federalism Limitations?	373	(12)
Missouri v. Holland	373	(3)
United States v. Lue	376	(4)
Notes and Questions	380	(5)
Conditional Consent	385	(14)
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	386	(2)
U.S. Reservations, Declarations, and Understandings, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	388	(1)
Domingues v. Nevada	389	(1)
Beazley v. Johnson	390	(3)
Notes and Questions	393	(6)
Subject Matter Limitations?	399	(10)
Power Authority of New York v. Federal Power Commission	399	(7)
Notes and Questions	406	(3)
Executive Agreements	409	(18)
Congressional-Executive Agreements	409	(1)
Made in the USA Foundation v. United States	409	(5)
Memorandum from Walter Dellinger to Michael Kantor	414	(1)
Letter from Senators Biden and Helms to Secretary of State Powell	415	(1)
Notes and Questions	416	(5)
Sole Executive Agreements	421	(1)
United States v. Belmont	421	(2)
U.S. State Department, Foreign Affairs Manual, Sec. 721.3	423	(1)
Case-Zablocki Act	424	(1)
Notes and Questions	424	(3)
Customary International Law	427	(68)
``Part of Our Law''	427	(16)
The Paquete Habana	427	(3)
Filartiga v. Pena-Irala	430	(5)
Notes and Questions	435	(8)
The Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act	443	(22)
Filartiga v. Pena-Irala	444	(3)
Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic	447	(10)
Torture Victim Protection Act	457	(1)
Notes and Questions	458	(7)
Recent Issues in International Human Rights Litigation	465	(18)
Kadic v. Karadzic	465	(6)
Beanal v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc.	471	(4)
White v. Paulsen	475	(2)
Notes and Questions	477	(4)
Note on Civil Suits Relating to Terrorism	481	(2)
The Charming Betsy Canon	483	(12)
United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization	483	(5)
Ma v. Reno	488	(3)
Notes and Questions	491	(4)
Extraterritoriality	495	(76)
The Constitution Abroad	495	(16)
Reid v. Covert	495	(6)
United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez	501	(7)
Notes and Questions	508	(3)
Federal Statutes Abroad	511	(26)
Presumption Against Extraterritoriality	511	(1)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Arabian American Oil Co.	511	(6)
Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California	517	(7)
Notes and Questions	524	(5)
International Law of Prescriptive Jurisdiction	529	(1)
United States v. Noriega	529	(3)
United States v. Yunis	532	(2)
Notes and Questions	534	(3)
Extradition	537	(21)
Treaty on Extradition Between the United States of America and Canada	538	(6)
Lo Duca v. United States	544	(5)
Ntakirutimana v. Reno	549	(6)
Notes and Questions	555	(3)
Extraterritorial Abduction	558	(13)
United States v. Alvarez-Machain	558	(9)
Notes and Questions	567	(4)
Foreign Sovereign Immunity	571	(88)
Historical Background	571	(6)
Notes and Questions	575	(2)
Overview of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act	577	(8)
Verlinden B.V. v. Central Bank of Nigeria	579	(3)
Notes and Questions	582	(3)
Commercial Activity Exception	585	(15)
Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, Inc.	585	(5)
Saudi Arabia v. Nelson	590	(8)
Notes and Questions	598	(2)
Noncommercial Tort Exception	600	(10)
Persinger v. Islamic Republic of Iran	601	(4)
Letelier v. Republic of Chile	605	(2)
Notes and Questions	607	(3)
International Law Exception?	610	(12)
Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp.	610	(4)
Princz v. Federal Republic of Germany	614	(5)
Notes and Questions	619	(3)
State Sponsors of Terrorism	622	(13)
Alejandre v. Republic of Cuba	623	(2)
Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran	625	(5)
Notes and Questions	630	(5)
Immunity of Foreign Officials and Heads of State	635	(16)
Chuidian v. Philippine National Bank	636	(4)
United States v. Noriega	640	(1)
Lafontant v. Aristide	641	(5)
Notes and Questions	646	(5)
Diplomatic and Other Immunities	651	(8)
Notes and Questions	654	(5)
Appendix A: Constitution of the United States	659	(18)
Appendix B: Select Jurisdictional Provisions	677	(4)
Appendix C: Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act	681	(10)
Table of Cases	691	(10)
Index	701