Law Professor: Who Should Make Policy About Other Countries?
June 24, 2015
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In an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post, Kenneth Lasson, professor in the University of Baltimore School of Law, considers the ways that individual lives—including that of his grandson—are affectted by the laws that govern United States foreign policy.
Lasson recounted his experience at the U.S. consulate in East Jersalem, where he went with his young grandson to obtain a U.S. passport. The document had no country listed after the inclusion of Jerusalem as his birthplace because, he was told, the city's status is in dispute. A recent Supreme Court case gave the president final authority in matters of citizenship and naturalization.
Read the op-ed.
Learn more about Prof. Lasson.