International Law Behind the Headlines

American Society of International Law

ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization founded in 1906 and chartered by Congress in 1950. ASIL holds Special Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies. The Society is headquartered at Tillar House in Washington, DC.

  1. Episode 59 - Boarding and Seizing Ships (and related Caribbean issues)

    JAN 9

    Episode 59 - Boarding and Seizing Ships (and related Caribbean issues)

    Boarding and Seizing Ships (and related Caribbean issues) with Michael Scharf, President of the American Branch of the International Law Association

    31 min
  2. Episode 58 - The US UN Headquarters Agreement and the Visa Battle over Mahmoud Abbas

    10/02/2025

    Episode 58 - The US UN Headquarters Agreement and the Visa Battle over Mahmoud Abbas

    Former Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Larry Johnson joins the podcast to explain the legal underpinnings of this year’s controversy at the UN General Assembly over visas and visa restrictions for diplomats from Palestine and Iran.

    35 min
  3. Episode 57 - International Obligations with Respect to Climate Change

    09/25/2025

    Episode 57 - International Obligations with Respect to Climate Change

    In the past year, three international courts and tribunals—the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)—have issued advisory opinions on the obligations of countries with respect to climate change. In the context of the ongoing UN General Assembly in NYC, this episode features a conversation between Catherine Amirfar and Payam Akhavan, who have served as counsel to multiple countries in those proceedings, to discuss the opinions, their impact, and next steps, especially for climate vulnerable countries.

    37 min
  4. Episode 56 - Interviewing the Court of Justice of the EU

    08/15/2025

    Episode 56 - Interviewing the Court of Justice of the EU

    In this episode with speak with Katerina Linos of UC Berkeley and Mark Pollack of Temple University about their project to interview the judges of the EU’s primary court system, and the implications for European integration, international law, and our understanding of how international judges behave.

    32 min
  5. Episode 55 - Peace Treaties

    06/20/2025

    Episode 55 - Peace Treaties

    What does the law of treaties—and jus ad bellum—say about peace treaties? We discuss these issues, the history of peace treaties, and their possible future with Greg Fox, who has written widely on peace agreements and their evolution.

    30 min
  6. Episode 54 - Is the Trump Administration’s Deep Seabed Mining Program Violating International Law?

    05/20/2025

    Episode 54 - Is the Trump Administration’s Deep Seabed Mining Program Violating International Law?

    On this episode Samantha Rowe, partner in the London office of Debevoise and Plimpton, joins the podcast to discuss the recent Trump executive order aimed at jumpstarting deep seabed mining, the role of the International Seabed Authority, and evolving custom in the law of the sea.

    32 min
  7. Episode 53 - The WTO in the Second Trump Administration

    02/12/2025

    Episode 53 - The WTO in the Second Trump Administration

    This episode considers the implications of a second Trump administration for international law and policy in the United States and explores the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Catherine speaks with Amy Porges, a long-time practitioner of international trade law who participated in drafting the WTO agreements, and later represented the United States before the WTO as Senior Counsel for Dispute Settlement and head of enforcement at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. This episode examines the history of the WTO and the United States’s relationship with the organization, including considering the potential approach of the Trump administration to tariffs.

    30 min
  8. Episode 52 - The United Nations in the Second Trump Administration

    02/06/2025

    Episode 52 - The United Nations in the Second Trump Administration

    Richard Gowan, Director for UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group and one of the world’s chief UN watchers, joins the podcast to discuss what to expect with the new Trump team in Turtle Bay.

    33 min
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ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization founded in 1906 and chartered by Congress in 1950. ASIL holds Special Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies. The Society is headquartered at Tillar House in Washington, DC.

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