represented AIG, BlackRock, Bechtel, General Electric, Weight Watchers, and Toys 'R' Us. He has been admitted to the Bars of New York State; the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2005, Turkish Daily News reported his impressions from a fact finding mission to Turkey where he met with military generals, senior elected representatives, religious leaders and dissidents. In 2006, the National Law Journal and New York Law Journal reported that he led an international fact finding mission to Iran, where he met with Massoumeh Ebtekar, Iran's first woman Vice President and former spokesperson for the hostage takers of the U.S. embassy, mullahs, ambassadors, professors, civil society reformers and UN officials in Tehran. Publications Books When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism After 9/11 and the Global Recession (Oxford University Press 2011) State Succession and Commercial Obligations (Transnational Publishers 2006) Articles Why New States Accept Old Obligations, 2011 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1 (2011); Developing Narratives in International Investment Law, 8 Santa Clara J. Int' L. (2011); Making International Law Without Agreeing What It Is, 10 Wash. U. Glob. Stud. L. Rev. (2011); Shaping an Obama Doctrine of Preemptive Force, 82 Temp. L. Rev. 737 (2009); Reasons and Reasoning in Investment Treaty Arbitration, 32 Suffolk Transnat’l L. Rev. 409 (2009); The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Sixty: Is it Still Right for the United States?, 41 Cornell Int'l L.J. 251 (2008); Renegotiating the Odious Debt Doctrine, 70 Law & Contemp. Probs. 7 (2007); Precedent and Control in Investment Treaty Arbitration, 30 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1014 (2007); Power, Norms, and International Intellectual Property Law, 28 Mich. J. Int'l L. 109 (2006); Power, Authority and International Investment Law, 20 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 465 (2005); The Central Case Approach to Human Rights, 13 Pac. Rim L. & Pol’y J. 257 (2004) Book Chapters and Other Scholarship International Arbitration, in Judicial Benchbook on International Law, D. Amann ed. (2011); Transnational Dispute Management Special Edition: International Arbitration in China, T. Cheng & P. Thorp eds. (2011); Positivism, New Haven Jurisprudence and the Fragmentation of International Law, in Essays in Honor of Thomas Walde, T. Weiler ed. (2010); State Succession and Commercial Obligations: Lessons from Kosovo, in Essays in Honor of W. michael Reisman, M. Arsanjani et al. eds. (2010); Law on Loan: Legal Reconstruction after Armed