Foreign Relations

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course examines the law governing the conduct of U.S. foreign relations. The Constitution sets out the basic framework for foreign relations law, but it leaves much unsaid and at least as much subject to interbranch contests for power. Topics will include: the allocation of authorities between the executive, legislature, and judiciary; the political question doctrine, presumption against extraterritoriality, and other doctrines that judges use in…