Roger Alford

Roger Alford

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Professor Roger Alford is a professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California, where he teaches international law. He received his J.D. from NYU Law School and his LL.M. from Edinburgh University. He is a permanent contributor to the prominent international law blog Opinio Juris.

Blog Entries by Roger Alford

O What a Rogue and Peasant State Am I!

5 Comments | Posted March 12, 2008 | 10:23 PM (EST)

Now I am alone. O what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his...
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How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Preemptive Strikes

Posted March 8, 2007 | 04:38 PM (EST)

The UCLA nuclear threats conference concluded Wednesday with plenty of talk about the threat of Iran, North Korea, and nuclear terrorism. But there was very little support for a preemptive military response. Effective diplomacy was the coin of the realm. Former Defense Secretary William Perry chastised the Bush Administration...

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The Awful New Arithmetic of the Atomic Bomb

Posted March 7, 2007 | 01:31 PM (EST)

"We are racing towards an unprecedented nuclear catastrophe." That's how former Clinton Administration Defense Secretary William Perry put it yesterday in a speech at UCLA. "Our greatest threat is a terrorist nuclear strike. A primitive bomb could result in 100,000 deaths and huge economic, social, and political costs." Perry warned...

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