Book Reviews
Wishful Nationalism
Peter Spiro Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 2:00 PM
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A review of Yael Tamir, “Why Nationalism” (Princeton University Press, 2019)
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Peter Spiro is the Charles Weiner Professor of Law at Temple University Law School.
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Refugees
How the Courts Could See Their Way to Striking Down the Trump Travel Ban
Peter Spiro Thu, Feb 2, 2017, 1:48 PM
The Trump executive order banning nationals of seven Muslim states and suspending refugee admissions is, as a matter of policy, monumentally stupid. It is malevolence tempered only by incompetence, as Ben Wittes puts it. That may ultimately prove its constitutional undoing, but the result is hardly foreordained. Beyond this weekend’s initial skirmishes, legal challenges to the order face an uphill battle.
Book Reviews
The Waning Federal Monopoly over Foreign Relations
Peter Spiro Mon, Jan 9, 2017, 11:14 AM
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A review of Michael Glennon and Robert Sloane, Foreign Affairs Federalism: The Myth of National Exclusivity (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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