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The American Society of International Law is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization. It was founded in 1906, chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1950, and has held Category II Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 1993. ASIL’s mission is to foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice. The Society’s 4,000 members (from nearly 100 countries) comprise attorneys, academics, corporate counsel, judges, representatives of governments and nongovernmental organizations, international civil servants, students, and others interested in international law. For more information and to join, visit www.asil.org>.

About Elizabeth Andersen
Elizabeth “Betsy” Andersen is Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the American Society of International Law, the United States’ premier institution for advancing the study and use of international law. Ms. Andersen became Executive Director of ASIL in October 2006. She had previously served as the Executive Director of the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI) and the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division. Ms. Andersen’s area of expertise is international humanitarian, human rights, and refugee law.

International Law 2008

As the 2008 Presidential primary season gets under way next month, we at the American Society of International Law are paying particularly close attention to what the candidates have to say about international law. 

How would these Presidential Wannabes purport to regulate global climate change? What international trade policies would they pursue? What do they think about the International Criminal Court? How would they apply international law in the context of efforts to combat terrorism? And what would they do to shore up the nuclear non-proliferation regime?

As a non-partisan educational institution, ASIL does not endorse candidates nor advocate specific answers to these questions. But our members and the voting population are curious to learn about the candidates’ views on these important matters.

Last week, ASIL launched a new website (www.asil.org/il08) to get some answers. International Law 2008 will track the candidates’ positions on the above and other international legal issues. It includes relevant comments, speeches, and policy statements for each candidate; responses to an ASIL survey of all of the candidates (to date Clinton, Edwards, Kucinich, and Obama have replied); and statements of ASIL leaders’ views of “the most important international law-related issue facing the next U.S. administration.” 

We hope that the site will be a resource to the candidates and voters alike and that it will serve to strengthen debate about these key international legal issues in the campaign. Let us know what you think!

Published Friday, December 21, 2007 4:26 PM by Elizabeth Andersen

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