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E-mail: jnm9s@virginia.edu

Subject Area(s): International law, national security law, law of the sea, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, war on terrorism, the Gulf War, war crimes, conflict management, terrorism, nuclear weapons, Central American conflict, foreign affairs, Vietnam War, intelligence, constitutional law, democracy and the rule of law

All Courses: Indochina War: Legal & Policy, International Law, National Security Law, Oceans Law and Policy, Rule of Law: Controlling Government in Contemporary Legal Thought (seminar), War & Peace: New Thinking About the Causes of War and War Avoidance (seminar)

Current Course(s): International Law, Rule Of Law: Controlling Government, National Security Law, Oceans Law And Policy, Indochina War: Legal And...

In the media:

• "Stuck in Port: The U.S. Senate is in No Rush to Vote on Ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention" (ABA Journal, 02/01/2008)
• "Editorial: Iran's Dire Straits" (Bangor Daily News (Maine), 01/22/2008)
• "No: An Attack on American Sovereignty" (San Diego Union-Tribune, 10/14/2007)
• "Another Premature 'Mission Accomplished': Law of the Sea Treaty Still Seriously Flawed" (KKOL-AM (WA), 09/26/2007)
• "U.S. Resistance to Sea Treaty Thaws/As Arctic Opens Up, Unlikely Alliance Helps to Persuade Senate Skeptics" (Wall Street Journal, 08/22/2007)
• "Commentary: Northern Rights" (Wall St. Journal , 08/13/2007)
• "Opportunity On the Oceans: America Wins With the Law of the Sea Treaty" (Washington Post, 07/30/2007)
• "Bush Allies Slam His Support of Maritime Treaty" (Boston Globe , 07/29/2007)
• "Bush's Base Splits Over Sea Treaty" (The Washington Times, 07/02/2007)
• "Should U.N. Broker Return of Alaska to Russia?" (Accuracy in Media, 06/29/2007)
• "UNH Scientist a Research Leader/He Maps the Unseen" (Concord Monitor, 05/15/2006)
• "Michael C. Rakower's Analysis of Khmer Rouge is Published in Book Examining Legacy of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam" (PRWeb, 03/28/2006)
• "How We Lost Vietnam" (The Washington Times, 02/26/2006)
• "CIA Abduction in Italy Shows U.S. Bungling—Experts" (Reuters, 06/30/2005)
• "Oil Firms See Hope for Future in Treaty/Opposition from Conservative Groups a Possible Stumbling Block to Ratification" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 03/26/2005)
• "Waging War Against Terror, Via Courtroom" (Bergen County [N.J.] Record, 01/24/2005)
• "Forgotten POWs, Forgotten Honor" (author) (The Washington Post, 11/10/2004)
• "San Antonio Professor Carves Niche in Terrorism Law" (Associated Press , 09/26/2004)
• "Lawyer in U.S.S. Cole Suit to Pursue Damages from Sudan's Frozen Assets" (Associated Press/Richmond Times-Dispatch, 07/20/2004)
• "Going after Iraq, and Losing—in U.S. Court" (National Law Journal, 06/14/2004)
• "U.S.: Right-Wing Republicans Sinking Law Of The Sea—Again" (IPS-Inter Press Service, 06/02/2004)
• "Conservative Opposition Leaves U.N. Accord in Dry Dock" (Los Angeles Times, 06/01/2004)
• "U.S. Barred Legal Review of Detentions, Lawyer Says" (New York Times, 05/19/2004)
• "Book Review: Can Suing—Not Just Indicting—Be a Weapon Against Terrorists?/A Review of Civil Litigation Against Terrorism" (FindLaw's Book Reviews, 04/30/2004)
• "Event: Senate Armed Services Committee" (FNS Daybook, 04/08/2004)
• "Senate Armed Services To Vet Law Of Sea Accord" (Environment and Energy Daily, 04/05/2004)
• "Ratification Gears Up as Bush Declares Support for UNCLOS/But the Republican Right, Who Regard Almost Any U.N. Treaty as a Threat to U.S. Sovereignty, Pose a Threat" (Lloyd's List, 03/31/2004)
• "UN: Fernanda Millicay Of Arbentina Awarded Eighteenth Law Of Sea Fellowship" (M2 Presswire, 12/19/2003)