As Damascus continues to rebuild after more than a decade of war – from the recent dissolution of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to the United States’ removal of Syria from its sponsors of terrorism list – a top UN official warned the Security Council on Thursday that international support…
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Bashar Al-Assad's in absentia conviction represents a milestone in Syria's justice system, but the trial was plagued by glaring problems.
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As a federal-level accountability desert forms, states are reviving "collateral accountability" — damages suits against federal officers who violate constitutional rights.
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AxiosRELIABLE 7.5geopolítica✓ 15 fuentes📊 datosThu, 27 Aug 2026 20:02:43
Data: Trade Partnership Worldwide, via National Taxpayers Union Foundation. Note: Includes tariffs mandated by executive order only. Totals through June 2026. Map: Brad Jennings/AxiosStates bear wildly different estimated tariff burdens from President Trump's trade actions since the start of 2025, f…
Iceland will decide whether to restart talks on joining the European Union in a referendum on Saturday, with President Donald Trump's threat to annex Greenland a motivating factor.
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Renewed clashes in Tigray and tensions between Ethiopia and other Horn of Africa nations threaten a regional security crisis.
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A declaration signed by leading international law and human rights experts calls for codifying gender apartheid as a crime against humanity and outlines key principles.
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States must be vigilant stewards of their data — auditing what they hold, limiting what they share, and enforcing legal constraints against federal overreach.
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For the United States to take the lead in AI cyber operations capabilities, government and industry must create appropriate safeguards.
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A public resource tracking all the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
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An expert analyzes whether the UAE bears State responsibility for the atrocities committed by the RSF and associated forces in Sudan.
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On the role of U.S. military leaders in addressing legal constraints and strategic questions.
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A timeline that chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
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The untold power of regular grand juries and special grand juries to independently conduct investigations and issue reports when federal prosecutors won't.
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Liberia must harmonize its war crimes bills into strong legislation and secure real resources, or the long-promised court risks stalling again.
The post Liberia’s Long-Awaited War Crimes Court: Momentum – and Risks appeared first on Just Security.
Expert analysis and background context for recent decisions made within the Israel Defense Forces' military justice system.
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday responded to a new round of US sanctions targeting its president and a senior prosecutor, calling them “a flagrant attack” against the court.
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To maintain sanctions' effectiveness as a tool, governments should strive to implement them with clarity, consistency, and credibility.
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The ICC's ability to function will depend significantly on Japan's response to the U.S. sanctions against the Court's Japanese president.
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State and local governments have constitutional and legal powers that can be harnessed to challenge repressive federal actions and to advance meaningful freedom and equality.
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A series exploring the powers and authorities state and local governments have to check federal overreach and protect democratic norms and individual rights.
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Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR Vice President JD Vance said yesterday that the war with Iran has entered a “new phase” of economic pressure. “We’re going to keep th…
This syllabus supplement offers curated articles intended to be combined with traditional casebooks in a law or higher ed classroom.
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This syllabus supplement offers curated articles intended to be combined with traditional casebooks in a law school or other higher education classroom.
The post “In Focus” Syllabus Supplements: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers, Operation Southern Spear, and Operation Absolute Resol…
A collection of syllabus supplements which offer curated articles intended to be combined with traditional course books in a law school or higher education classroom.
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If CEDAW fails in Afghanistan, at the very frontier of the violations it was designed to prevent, its protections risk collapsing into little more than paper promises.
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Trump's family is profiting spectacularly from proximity to power, providing an opening for a select committee to investigate, modeled after the 1975 Church Committee.
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Expert analysis of how Iran's conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz fit within the strictures of international law.
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Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR The United States is sending the aircraft carrier the USS George Washington to the Middle East to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, wh…
Five years after the fall of Kabul, the Taliban government still has not succeeded in achieving recognition at the United Nations.
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State attorneys general and local district attorneys can take action to uphold the rule of law in the face of unlawful federal actions.
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U.S. tech companies should take action to protect the Afghan women and girls who rely on their platforms for online education.
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An expert backgrounder on the implications of President Trump's removal of all members of the bipartisan commission.
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In these two cases, the Court misread history with an unmistakable result: two fundamentally irreconcilable decisions.
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Bosnian Serb leader denies the mass killings, rapes, and ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks while reviving racist, anti-Muslim narratives that preceded the atrocities.
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On the Supreme Court’s latest reasoning about the Federal Reserve and the fault lines that are likely to emerge in the years ahead.
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The single most important move the U.S. could make to aid Venezuela would be to lift all remaining economic sanctions on the country while maintaining some on individuals.
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Experts examine legal, political, and security dimensions of U.S. policy on Greenland, including U.S.-NATO relations, congressional oversight, and geopolitical implications.
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With risk-based personnel vetting practices, U.S. AI labs can keep recruiting the world’s best researchers while safeguarding national security.
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German scholars argue that from a realpolitik perspective, commitment to international law is essential for States whose power is limited.
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A post-Trump America must finally turn transitional justice tools inward and reckon with failures it has long refused to face if it aims to repair, not simply ignore.
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The U.S. needs to lead a new export control regime -- coordinating with its partners and allies -- to constrain China’s ability to produce advanced and foundational chips.
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Transitional justice approaches in Syria must not isolate periods of oppression from the broader contexts that enabled them.
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