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A Just Security essay by Michael Dreeben on President Richard Nixon’s views on executive power was featured in an article by Adam Liptak, chief legal correspondent for the New York

Executive Editor Matiangai Sirleaf was interviewed by Jeffrey Smith about the UN General Assembly’s condemnation of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement as crimes against humanity.

The World’s Shirin Jaafari interviewed Just Security Executive Editor Rebecca Hamilton and Board of Editors Member Tom Dannenbaum about U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s call for “dismantling” the International

Just Security Co-Editor-in-Chief Tess Bridgeman discusses the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a war powers resolution aimed at halting further military action against Iran without congressional authorization.  .

Out now from Oxford University Press: The International Law of Non-International Armed Conflict, authored by Ezequiel Heffes and JS Editorial Board member Nathalie Weizmann. Drawing on the authors’ expertise it

Co-editors in chief Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman and Editorial Board Member Mary McCord are the three speakers for an event at New York Historical on “Power Without Impunity: War

Just Security Editor Eliav Lieblich and contributing author Rachel VanLandingham joined the Brian Lehrer show on NPR-affiliate WNYC to discuss their articles on reprisals and war crimes rhetoric, as well

Congratulations to JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, appointed by Irish President Catherine Connolly to serve as a member of the Council of State of Ireland.

JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was appointed to serve as a member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.

The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner interviewed JS Executive Editor Oona Hathaway on the legal questions surrounding the arrest of Nicolas Maduro and U.S. operations in Venezuela.  

Tess Bridgeman spoke to The New Yorker’s Ruth Marcus about the Trump administration’s justification of murder in its lethal campaign against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and East Pacific. 

Tess Bridgeman discusses the legality of orders to kill shipwrecked survivors of a U.S. targeted  vessel in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.

Congratulations to JS Editor Eliav Lieblich, recipient of the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law, awarded for outstanding contributions to the study of international law and substantial, innovative and cutting-edge

Washington Post‘s Warren Strobel, Ellen Nakashima and Noah Robertson cite Nevitt’s and Harrison’s Just Security article discussing the U.S. military’s lethal strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific and the collapse

60 Minutes interviewed Goodman on a study published at Just Security on how courts have reacted to the Trump administration on issues of compliance and false information.

Executive Editor Rebecca Hamilton updated Australians on the war in Sudan in an extended interview with TV Broadcaster ABC.

JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons) has been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

Congratulations to JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2025-2026 in the Fullbright-Schuman European Union Affairs Program.

Oona Hathaway is one of 20 fellows awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. She will use the fellowship to write her book, “War Unbound.”

JS co-editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman discussed friction between president Trump and conservative legal community over judicial appointees with FT’s US legal and enforcement correspondent, Stefania Palma.