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Michael D. Ramsey Professor of Law, University of San Diego Law School |
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2012 Presentations |
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· Making International Agreements in U.S. Law and Practice
Roundtable on the Law of Treaties, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, MI, September 22, 2012.
· Presidential Power in Foreign Affairs: Examples from the Bush and Obama Administrations
University of California San Diego, Osher Institute lecture, San Diego, Calif., October 16, 2012.
· Human Rights Litigation in State Courts and under State Law
Symposium at U.C. Irvine Law School, conference co-organizer (with Donald Childress and Christopher Whytock) and moderator of panel on federalism issues, Irvine, CA, Mar. 3-4, 2012.
· Comment on Hadley Arkes, Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths
Claremont Institute, Center for the Jurisprudence of Natural Law, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2012.
· Arguments from Custom in International Law
Northwestern University Law School International Law Colloquia series, Chicago, IL, January 14, 2012.
2011 Presentations
· Two Types of Arguments from Custom
Harvard-Duke Workshop on Foreign Relations Law, works-in-progress presentation, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, October 8, 2011.
· International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court
American Society of International Law, Continuing Legal Education Institute “Webinar” (On-line seminar presentation of co-edited book International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: Continuity and Change (David L. Sloss, Michael D. Ramsey & William S. Dodge, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2011)), July 8, 2011 (co-presented with David Sloss).
· The Use of Force in Libya
Stanford Law School, Constitutional Law Center (debate with Professor John Yoo), Stanford, CA, April 22, 2011.
Description/Video at Stanford Constitutional Law Center website
· The (Limited) Future of Corporate Human Rights Liability
Pepperdine Law School, Symposium on “Current and Future Trends in Transnational Litigation” (Panel with Jonathan Drimmer, Dave Wallach, Michael Goldhaber and Professor Chimene Keitner), Malibu, CA, April 21, 2011.
· The Constitutional Status of International Law: U.S. Perspectives
Monash University Law School, faculty workshop, Melbourne, Australia, March 31, 2011.
· The Constitutional Status of International Law: U.S. Perspectives
University of Melbourne Law School, faculty workshop, Melbourne, Australia, March 29, 2011.
· The Constitutional Status of Customary International Law
Association of American Law Schools, 2011 Annual Meeting: Section on Constitutional Law, Panel Presentation on “The U.S. Constitution in Global Perspective” (Panel with Professors Carlos Vazquez, Stephen Vladeck and Michael Van Alstine), San Francisco, CA, January 6, 2011. |
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2013 Presentations |
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· International Human Rights Litigation in the United States after Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, Centre for the Study of Enterprise Liability, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 7, 2013.
· Arguments from Custom in International Law
University of San Diego Law School, Center on Law and Philosophy, Conference on Human Rights and International Law Theory, San Diego, CA, May 4, 2013.
· Arguments from Custom In Constitutional Law
Notre Dame Law School, Roundtable on the Constitution and Unwritten Law, South Bend, IN, March 22, 2013
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2018 Presentations |
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· The Constitution and Foreign Affairs in the Trump Administration
Panel discussion with Professor Allen Weiner, Stanford Law School, Stanford CA, January 18, 2018
· Originalism and Non-Originalism
Debate with Professor David McGowan, USD Law School Federalist Society/American Constitution Society Constitution Day Event, San Diego, CA, September 17, 2018
· Commentary: Habeas Corpus in Wartime
Commentary on book presentation by Professor Amanda Tyler, Habeas Corpus in Wartime, USD Law School, San Diego, CA, September 21, 2018
· Congress’ Incomplete Power over Foreign Affairs
Paper presentation, Yale-Duke Foreign Affairs Law Roundtable, panel presentation with Professors Curtis Bradley, Kristen Eichensehr and Ganesh Sitaraman, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, September 28, 2018
· Commentary: Federal Power over Immigration
Commentary on article “The Power to Exclude” by Professor Josh Blackman, LeFrak Forum: A 21st Century Immigration Policy for the West, Michigan State University Department of Political Science, Lansing, MI, October 13, 2018
· Commentary: Grounding Originalism
Commentary on article “Grounding Originalism” by Professors William Baude and Stephen Sachs, Northwestern University Law Review Symposium “Originalism 3.0,” Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, IL, November 2, 2018
· Two Views of the Latest Supreme Court Constitutional Law Decisions
Roundtable discussion with Professor Pamela Karlan, National Conference of Chief Judges of the State Courts of Appeal, San Diego, CA, Nov. 17, 2018 |
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· Commentary on Sovereign Debt Litigation
Commentary on paper by Thomas Lee, American Society of International Law, Interest Group on International Law in Domestic Courts, Annual Works-in-Progress Conference, Santa Clara University Law School, Santa Clara, CA, December 5, 2014.
· Commentary: The Founders and Treaty Non-Self-Execution
Commentary on forthcoming book on self-executing treaties by David Sloss, Santa Clara University Law School, December 4, 2014.
· Congress’ Limited Power to Enforce Treaties
Paper presentation, Notre Dame Law School conference: “The Treaty Power After Bond v. United States: Interpretive and Constitutional Constraints,” panel with Professors Saikrishna Prakash and Duncan Hollis, Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, IN, Nov. 14, 2014.
· Supreme Court OT 2014-15 Preview
Panel Discussion, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA, October 13, 2014 (with Professors Miranda McGowan and Donald Dripps).
· War Powers Litigation after Zivotofsky v. Clinton
Yale-Duke Roundtable on Foreign Relations Law, Yale Law School, October 3, 2014.
· Supreme Court OT 2014-15 Preview
Panel Discussion, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, September 17, 2014.
· Argentina v. NML Capital: Can a U.S. Court Make Argentina Pay Its Debts?
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, School of Law, Mexico City, September 12, 2014 |
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2014 Presentations |
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2015 Presentations |
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· War Initiation under President Obama
Yale-Duke Roundtable on Foreign Relations Law, Duke University Law School, Durham, NC, October 3, 2015.
· The Founders and International Law
Debate with Professor John Yoo, U.C. Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA, September 30, 2015.
· Supreme Court Preview — October Term 2015
Constitution Day panel presentation, University of San Diego Law School, San Diego, CA, September 17, 2015.
· Supreme Court 2014-15 Year in Review
Panel presentation to annual convention of National Association of State Attorneys General (with Professor Vikram Amar), San Diego, CA, June 18, 2015.
· The Founders and Treaty Non-Self -Execution
Panel presentation, BYU Law School conference on the draft Fourth Restatement of Foreign Relations Law, Provo, UT, January 30, 2015. |
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2016 Presentations |
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· The Troubled Constitutionality of Nonbinding Agreements
Paper presentation, Yale-Duke Roundtable on Foreign Relations Law: The Future of International Agreements, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, October 15, 2016.
· ICSID Investor-State Arbitration: Is There a Problem? Is There a Solution?
Presentation at Sogang University Law School, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 29, 2016.
· Justice Scalia’s Legacy
Panel discussion with Kristin Myles, Professor Jonathan Mitchell, and Professor John Eastman, U.C. Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA, April 21, 2016.
· Justice Scalia’s Legacy
Panel discussion with Professors Paul Cassel, Jonathan Mitchell and John Fee, University of Utah Law School, Salt Lake City, UT, April 13, 2016.
· Evading the Treaty Power: The Constitution and Nonbinding Agreements
Paper presentation, Florida International University Law Review symposium on Separation of Powers in the Obama Administration, Florida International University Law School, Miami, FL, March 11, 2016.
· Is Ted Cruz a Natural Born Citizen?
Debate with Professor Tom Lee, University of San Diego Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, University of San Diego Law School, San Diego, CA, February 19, 2016.
· Presidential Power to Implement Treaties
Panel discussion with Professors Kif Augustine-Adams, David Moore, Michael Van Alstine and David Sloss, International Law Association, American Branch, International Law Weekend West, BYU Law School, Provo, UT, January 29, 2016. |
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· The Constitution’s Text and Customary International Law
Symposium paper presentation, Georgetown Law Journal Symposium on “The Law of Nations and the U.S. Constitution,” Georgetown Law School, Washington, DC, November 2, 2017
· The Executive Oversight Amendment
Symposium presentation, Stanford Constitutional Law Center conference: “The Big Fix: Should We Amend our Constitution?,” Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, May 13, 2017.
· The Constitution and President Trump’s Travel Ban
Presentation, University of San Diego Law School, Middle-Eastern Students Association, San Diego, CA, February 10, 2017.
· Justice Scalia’s Originalism in Practice
Symposium paper presentation, Notre Dame Law Review symposium on “Justice Scalia and the Federal Courts,” Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, IN, February 3, 2017.
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