Academic

Desai on State Genocide Divestment Statutes

By Lawrence Solum

Sapna Desai (Cornell University - School of Law) has posted Genocide Funding: The Constitutionality of State Divestment Statutes (Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This Note argues that given congressional authorization, state statutes mandating divestments in Sudan in an effort to condone the Sudanese government's funding of the genocide are constitutional. It analyzes the balance of power between federal and state governments, as well as between the legislative and executive branch under the Supremacy Clause, the Foreign Commerce Clause, and the Foreign Affairs Power.

This is an interesting student note.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on September 01, 2008 (boomark / email).