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...Departed” assumes that installing cronies everywhere and undertaking occasional idiosyncratic actions will keep him permanently installed. The spying and confusing actions are carefully calculated to indicate to his subordinates that no one could do his job as well as he can, while sparing him the law??s wrath...
...ride a bike, Tribe had been on a decades-long roll. Since 1978, he’s brought three dozen cases to the Supreme Court and won about two-thirds of them. The New York Times once declared his 1978 book—“American Constitutional Law??—“the closest thing to a definitive treatise on the Constitution.” In 2004 he received one of Harvard’s 20 prestigious University professorships—his post had previously been held by Watergate special prosecutor Archibald...
Kennedy is a peacenik—a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, in fact (see the interview with him on page B2). But this thin volume reflects two decades of his rethinking on war’s permissibility and the proper role of law??a rethinking that he says was prompted by questions from students who urged military intervention in war-torn Bosnia and Darfur...
Kennedy does note that international law has its importance in determining what constitutes a just war, but he makes a convincing case that the law??s “humanitarian potential”—its ability to prompt humanitarian interventions in places like Bosnia and Darfur—is overstated. The solution, Kennedy argues, is to ground just war doctrine in ethics...
...solution then seems clear, even if carrying it would be painstaking and difficult: instead of abandoning the established body of law, the world community should reorient it to emphasize ethical considerations. This adjustment would seemingly address Kennedy’s concerns about the law??s humanitarian shortcomings while preserving the legitimacy that law bestows...