Council Comments
Lucy Reed
Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer LLP The single most important international law related challenge for the next U.S. Presidential administration is to lead the U.S. Government back to a position of leadership in developing and following international law. The U.S. Executive Branch needs to value, and be seen to value, the rule of law in its international policymaking. Without compromising a rigorous, critical and national interest-focused assessment of international law issues in key policy decisions -- whether on use of force, climate change, humanitarian intervention, trade, treaty ratification -- the President should ensure that those international law issues are put squarely on the table to be counted. |
