Christopher J. Borgen

Books

“A Decent Respect for the Opinions of Mankind…”: Selected Speeches by Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Foreign and International Law  (Christopher J. Borgen, ed.) The American Society of International Law Studies in Transnational Legal Policy  No. 38 (forthcoming 2007)

International Law: A Judge’s Handbook (American Society of International Law 2003) (co-authored with David Bederman and David Martin)

Articles & Book Chapters

Transnational Tribunals and the Transmission of Norms: The Hegemony of Process, George Washington International Law Review (forthcoming 2008)

A Tale of Two Networks: Terrorism, Transnational Law, and Network Theory, Oklahoma City University Law Review (forthcoming 2007)

Imagining Sovereignty, Managing Secession: The Legal Geography of Eurasia’s “Frozen Conflicts”, Oregon Review of International Law (forthcoming 2007)

Whose Public, Whose Order?: Imperium, Region, and Normative Friction, 32 Yale Journal of International Law 331(2007)

Triptych: Sectarian Disputes, International Law, and Transnational Tribunals in Drinan’s Can God and Caesar Coexist?, 45 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 11 (2006)

Thawing a Frozen Conflict: Legal Aspects of the Separatist Crisis in Moldova, 61 The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2006)

Resolving Treaty Conflicts, 37 George Washington International Law Review 573 (2005)

American Lawyers and International Competence, 18 Dickinson Journal of International Law 493 (2001) (with Charlotte Ku)

Law and International Relations, 31 New Mexico Law Review 85 (2001)

The Theory and Practice of Regional Organization Intervention in Civil Wars, 26 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 797 (1994)

Other Publications

Of Maps, Stories, and Tapestries: Researching International and Domestic Law in the Age of Globalization, in George Washington International Law Review Guide to International Legal Research (2003)

Presidential Panel: International Law and the Sole Superpower, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 2002 (2002) (reporter)

Judicial Views of International Law, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 2001 (2001) (reporter)

Judicial Views of International Law,  95 American Society of International Law Proceedings 28 (2001)

"Discovery" in International Legal Developments Year in Review: 1998, 33 International Lawyer 424 (1999)

"World Court Rejects Yugoslav Requests to Enjoin Ten NATO Members from Bombing Yugoslavia" in American Society of International Law Insight (June 1999) (with Peter H.F. Bekker) (link)

"Discovery" in International Legal Developments Year in Review: 1997, 32 International Lawyer 237 (1998)

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights: Critique of the Department of State's 1996 Country Report on Haiti (1997)

"Discovery" in International Legal Developments Year in Review: 1996, 31 International Lawyer 334 (1997)

Blog
Opinio Juris, a weblog dedicated to reports, commentary, and debate on current developments and scholarship in the fields of international law and politics (co-founder and contributor) (link)

Paper Presentations & Selected Speaking Engagements
“The Relation of Domestic and International Judiciaries,” International Association of Judges Conference (Panel Moderator, Co-Organizer, Co-Host) (November 2006)

Thawing a Frozen Conflict: Legal Aspects of the Separatist Crisis in Moldova: A Report from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Parliamentary Conference in Moldova (July 2006) (link)

“The War on Financing International Terrorism: On the Frontlines,” New York International Law Review Symposium (Moderator) (April 2006) (link)

"Separatism in Moldova: Legal Aspects of a “Frozen Conflict,” Villanova University School of Law Faculty Workshop (February 2006)

"Separatism in Moldova: Legal Aspects of a “Frozen Conflict,” United Nations Program (November 2005)

“Hope: Foundation of a Civilization of Love and Justice,” 2005 Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Conference at St. John’s University (October 2005) (link)

“U.N. Reform and the International Court of Justice,” International Law Weekend 2005, American Branch of the International Law Association (Organizer and Panel Moderator) (October 2005) (link)

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