This course will examine the constitutional, statutory, and jurisprudential principles applicable to the foreign relations of the United States. Topics include the constitutional allocation of foreign-affairs powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches; the power to make and unmake treaties and other international agreements; foreign relations in the federal courts; interbranch disputes over the conduct of foreign relations; the role of the states in foreign relations; the power to declare war and direct military forces in the field; and the status of international law in the American constitutional order. Students will be evaluated based on class participation (20%) and an open-book final exam (80%).
Klein, Adam I.