September 2012 – With campaigning well under way for the 2012 U.S. Presidential elections, the rest of the world is contemplating the likely impact of either a second Obama or new Romney administration. Senior Associate Jennifer Gorskie recently moderated a New York City Bar panel of esteemed legal, political and foreign relations specialists on The Next Four Years: The Impact of the 2012 Presidential Election on International Law.

The panel included John B. Bellinger III, former Legal Adviser to the Department of State, Senior Associate Counsel to President Bush and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council; William W. Burke-White, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and former Policy Planning Staff for U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton; and Deborah Pearlstein, Associate Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, former founding director of the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First, and Senior Editor and Speechwriter for President Clinton.