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Carlos Manuel Vazquez

Professor of Law

B.A., Yale; J.D., Columbia

Areas of Expertise:

Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law, International Law

After graduating from law school, where he was Articles and Book Reviews Editor of the Columbia Law Review, Professor Vazquez served as a law clerk...

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After graduating from law school, where he was Articles and Book Reviews Editor of the Columbia Law Review, Professor Vazquez served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then practiced law with Covington and Burling in Washington, DC, before joining the law school faculty as a visiting professor of law in 1990, and then as an associate professor in 1991. From 2000 to 2003, he was the United States member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, the organ of the Organization of American States responsible for juridical matters and for promoting the progressive development and codification of international law in the Americas. Professor Vazquez has written and taught primarily in the areas of international law, constitutional law, and federal courts.

Recent Scholarship

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Carlos M. Vázquez & Stephen I. Vladeck, State Law, the Westfall Act, and the Nature of the Bivens Question, 161 U. Pa. L. Rev. 509-583 (2013).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Alien Tort Claims and the Status of Customary International Law, 106 Am. J. Int'l L. 531-546 (2012).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Customary International Law as U.S. Law: A Critique of the Revisionist and Intermediate Positions and a Defense of the Modern Position, 86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1495-1634 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Withdrawing from International Custom: Terrible Food, Small Portions, 120 Yale L.J. (Online) 269-291 (2011).    [W] [WWW]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Carlos M. Vázquez, "Not a Happy Precedent": The Story of Ex Parte Quirin, in Federal Courts Stories 219-246 (Vicki C. Jackson & Judith Resnik eds., New York: Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press 2010).    [BOOK]

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Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Carlos M. Vázquez & Stephen I. Vladeck, State Law, the Westfall Act, and the Nature of the Bivens Question, 161 U. Pa. L. Rev. 509-583 (2013).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Alien Tort Claims and the Status of Customary International Law, 106 Am. J. Int'l L. 531-546 (2012).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Customary International Law as U.S. Law: A Critique of the Revisionist and Intermediate Positions and a Defense of the Modern Position, 86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1495-1634 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Withdrawing from International Custom: Terrible Food, Small Portions, 120 Yale L.J. (Online) 269-291 (2011).    [W] [WWW]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, The Unsettled Nature of the Union, 123 Harv. L. Rev. (Forum) 79-91 (2011).    [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Less Than Zero?, 102 Am. J. Int'l L. 563-572 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, The Separation of Powers as a Safeguard of Nationalism, 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1601-1637 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Missouri v. Holland's Second Holding, 73 Mo. L. Rev. 939-967 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Treaties as Law of the Land: The Supremacy Clause and the Judicial Enforcement of Treaties, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 599-695 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, The Federal “Claim” in the District Courts: Osborn, Verlinden, and Protective Jurisdiction, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1731-1774 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, The Military Commissions Act, the Geneva Conventions, and the Courts: A Critical Guide, 101 Am. J. Int'l L. 73-98 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Judicial Enforcement of Treaties: Self-Execution and Related Doctrines, 100 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 439-448 (2006).    [HEIN] [W]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Altmann v. Austria and the Retroactivity of the Foreign Services Immunities Act, 3 J. Int'l Crim. Just. 207-223 (2005).    [HEIN] [W] [SSRN]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Direct vs. Indirect Obligations of Corporations Under International Law, 43 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 927-959 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Judicial Review in the United States and in the WTO: Some Similarities and Differences, 36 Geo. Wash. Int’l L. Rev. 587-613 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Regionalism Versus Globalism: A View From the Americas, 8 Uniform L. Rev. 63-70 (2003).    [HEIN]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Trade Sanctions and Human Rights - Past, Present, and Future, 6 J. Int’l Econ. L. 797-839 (2003).    [W] [SSRN]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez & John H. Jackson, Some Reflections on Compliance With WTO Dispute Settlement Decisions, 33 Law & Pol’y Int’l Bus. 555-567 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [SSRN]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Treaties and the Eleventh Amendment, 42 Va. J. Int’l L. 713-742 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Julian Knowles, Christopher Borgen, Arthur Rovine & William Paul, Panel Discussion: Law and International Relations, 31 N.M. L. Rev. 85-106 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, W(h)ither Zschernig?, 46 Vill. L. Rev. 1259-1324 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Eleventh Amendment Schizophrenia, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 859-918 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Sovereign Immunity, Due Process, and the Alden Trilogy, 109 Yale L.J. 1927-1981 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Carlos M. Vázquez, "Not a Happy Precedent": The Story of Ex Parte Quirin, in Federal Courts Stories 219-246 (Vicki C. Jackson & Judith Resnik eds., New York: Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press 2010).    [BOOK]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Las Relaciones Entre el Poder Ejecutivo y el Poder Legislativo en los Estados Unidos de América, in La Coordinación de las Relaciones Entre el Gobierno y el Parlamento: Una Mirada (Miguel Angel Presno Linera & Daniel Sarmiento eds., Madrid: Ministerio de la Presidencia 2007).   
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, The Story of Foster v. Neilson and United States v. Percheman: Judicial Enforcement of Treaties, in International Law Stories (John E. Noyes, Laura A. Dickinson & Mark W. Janis eds., New York: Foundation Press 2007).    [BOOK]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Jurisdiction and Human Rights: Two Puzzles, in Human Rights at the Center: Les Droits de l'Homme au Centre 507-519 (Franz Werro, Samantha Besson & Michel Hottelier eds., Zurich, Switz.: Schulthess 2006).    [BOOK]
  • Carlos M. Vázquez, Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain and Human Rights Claims Against Corporations Under the Alien Tort Statute, in Human Rights and International Trade 137-147 (Thomas Cottier, Joost Pauwelyn & Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [BOOK]

U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

  • Brief of Law Professors David D. Cole, Carlos M. Vázquez, Julie R. O'Sullivan, Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks et al. as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner (Geneva-Enforceability), Hamdan v. Rumsfield, No. 05-184 (U.S. Jan. 6, 2006).    [W] [Gtown Law]

Selected Contributions to Other Publications

  • Carlos M. Vázquez, La Protección de los Derechos en el Sistema Federal de los Estados Unidos, 82 Revista Vasca de Adminstración Pública 299-316 (2008).   

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