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Frankfurter Professor of Law Abram Chayes, who argued on behalf of Nicaragua in its World Court case against the U.S., will moderate the panel...
...began with an instructive story. I will end with another. In 1966 the Soviet Union experienced its first great dissident event of the post-Stalin era -- the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, writers whose books were published in the West under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak. Somebody had revealed their real names, and they were immediately arrested on orders of then KGB Chief Vladimir Semichastny. I was one of the Soviet writers who protested that trial...
Felix Frankfurter Professor of law Abram Chayes '43 agreed with Gorelick's criticisms. He said he was disheartened to be "training so many of these young people to go off and do things that you wouldn't do yourself and which are somewhat problematic in an ethical sense...
...enforced by U.S. courts, foreign judgments must be shown to be the result of fair proceedings. One thing that means is giving the defendant a meaningful chance to be heard. With Marcos unlikely to return, says Harvard Law Professor Abram Chayes, the Aquino government must take care to "give him as much opportunity as possible to present his case." For instance, says Chayes, it might consider appointing a neutral tribunal of lawyers or judges to take testimony from Marcos in Hawaii. In Manila's favor is the fact that federal courts usually defer to presidential policy in cases touching upon...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Abram Chayes '43 argued that American support of the Contras in Nicaragua, and U.S. mining of Nicaraguan harbors violated international...