University of Virginia Library

Law Symposium Examines
Use Of Military Abroad

How presidential power to use
American military force abroad is
being implemented and how it is
being challenged in domestic courts
will be discussed by legal experts
from throughout the country at a
symposium beginning tomorrow at
the University School of Law.

The two-day meeting brings
together lawyers and scholars as
well as representatives from the
U.S. military and Department of
State to discuss the issue of "The
Constitution and the use of Military
Force Abroad."

The symposium is sponsored by
the John Bassett Moore Society of
International Law at the University
and the American Society of
International Law in cooperation
with the University's law school.

On Friday participants will
discuss "The Power of the Executive
to Use Military Force
Abroad," in a panel to begin at 2
p.m. Panelists include Murray J.
Belman, deputy legal advisor from
the State Department and Quincy
Wright, professor emeritus at the
University of Chicago and is author
of "Control of American Foreign
Relations." Although published in
1922, the book is still regarded as a
definite work in the field.

Commentators include W.
Taylor Reveley III, assistant professor
of law at the University of
Alabama and Lawrence R. Velvel,
assistant professor of law at the
University of Kansas.

Velvel is author of "The War in
Vietnam: Unconstitutional, Justiciable
and Jurisdictionally Attackable,"
which appeared last year in
the Kansas Law Review. Currently
he is testing the war's legality in the
courts.

Moderator for Friday's panel is
Hardy C. Dillard, professor of law
and former law school dean at the
University.

Saturday's panel will analyze
"The Use of Domestic Courts to
Challenge Employment of Military
Force Abroad." William M.
Kunstler, a civil liberties lawyer
from New York and John Norton
Moore, associate professor of law at
the University of Virginia, will be
panelists.

An article by Mr. Moore, entitled
"The National Executive and
the Use of Armed Forces Abroad,"
appeared in the Naval War College
Review last month.

Commentators include Col. Earl
V. Brown, U.S. Army retired, a
former member of the U.S. Army
Judiciary. Col. Brown was a judge
at the court-martial of U.S. Army
Capt. Howard Levy for disobeying
orders and making disloyal statements
about American policy in
Vietnam.

Also serving as commentator
will be Warren F. Schwartz, professor
of law at the University of
Texas and author of "The Justifiability
of Legal Objections to the
American Military Effort in Vietnam"
which appeared last year in
the Texas Law Review.