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...panel members, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at the Law School, Michael Ignatieff, director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy and a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, and Bryan Hehir, chair of the Executive Committee of the Divinity School, spoke to a group of about 40 in the Strauss common room...
...Slaughter led off the discussion by looking at the international laws governing responses to terrorism...
Although the United States is using Article 51 of the United Nations’ charter, which says that states have the right of self-defense, to justify its attacks on Afghanistan, Slaughter said Article 39 implies that the U.N. Security Council must approve the use of force...
...Slaughter also considered the question of punishing suspected terrorists such as Osama bin Laden. She suggested the formation of an international tribunal including both American and Islamic jurists to try the terrorists, a move she said would help ensure the international legitimacy of any court decisions...
Ignatieff, who spoke after Slaughter, cautioned that U.S. officials should remember past foreign policy mistakes in which the government’s support of corrupt regimes like the Taliban had come back to haunt...