Roundtable Series on the Rule of Law and U.S. Foreign Policy
Director: Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
October 2008 - Present
Taking place in New York, this series serves as a venue for policymakers, scholars, legal professionals, and journalists to exchange ideas and reach conclusions on issues at the intersection of law and United States foreign policy. Particular attention is given to matters of international legal policy involving the rule of law.
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process and the Disappointing March to Statehood
Speaker:
Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to IsraelPresider:
Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor of Law, Columbia Law SchoolThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
A Conversation with the Chief Prosecutor of United States Military Commissions
Speaker:
Mark S. Martins, Chief Prosecutor, Office of Military CommissionsPresider:
Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Current Treaty Issues in the U.S. Senate
Speakers:
Andrew N. Keller, Chief Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Michael J. Mattler, Minority Chief Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations CommitteePresider:
Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable Meeting
The End of Geography? (The World Looks Different from Geneva than New York)
Speaker:
Daniel Bethlehem, Former Legal Adviser, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Scholar-in-Residence, Columbia Law School; Director, Legal Policy International Ltd.Presider:
Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy, Coiuncil on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Speakers:
Mario Mancuso, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and U.S. Foreign Policy, CFRThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Smart Financial Power and National Security
Speaker:
Juan Carlos Zarate, Center for Strategic and International StudiesPresider:
Matthew C. Waxman, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
U.S. Policy Toward the International Criminal Court
Speakers:
Patricia Wald, Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, William H. Taft IV, Former Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State and Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of DefensePresider:
Matthew C. Waxman, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
U.S. Counterterrorism Law and Policy in Transition
May 15, 2009
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Democracy, Rule of Law, and Human Rights in 21st Century International Relations
Speaker:
Rosalie Silberman Abella, Supreme Court of CanadaPresider:
Matthew C. Waxman, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
International Law Challenges for the Obama Administration
February 5, 2009
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Engaging from Strength: International Institutions and the Iran Question
Speakers:
Noah Feldman, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign RelationsPresider:
Nader Mousavizadeh, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
A Conversation with Benjamin Wittes
Speaker:
Benjamin Wittes, Fellow and Research Director in Public Law, Governance Studies, The Brookings InstitutionPresider:
Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
CFR Experts Guide
The Council on Foreign Relations' David Rockefeller Studies Program—CFR's "think tank"—is home to more than seventy full-time, adjunct, and visiting scholars and practitioners (called "fellows"). Their expertise covers the world's major regions as well as the critical issues shaping today's global agenda.
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