LAW - 935 Congress, Law-Making, and Foreign Affairs Seminar

(3 hrs.)

Explores the various levers of law-making power in the foreign affairs field that are available for exercise by Congress to affect U.S. foreign policy, including the “power of the purse” (authorization and appropriations statutes), the congressional war power, the Senate’s role in treaty-making, the enactment of international economic sanctions, border-control measures, the power to establish governmental offices and bodies, and the passage of nonbinding “policy” resolutions. Special reference will be made to post-9/11 statutes and related legal developments. The seminar will emphasize basic skills and exercises in the drafting of foreign relations legislation. Caple Spring