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U.S. Denial of Safe Harbor Compounds Venezuela’s Crisis

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Apr 3rd, 2019

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Featured Articles

Collection: Just Security’s Coverage of Trump Administration Executive Actions

by Just Security

Apr 10th, 2025
Remarkable Things in the Government’s Alien Enemies Act Briefs to the Supreme Court

by Marty Lederman

Apr 3rd, 2025
Dropping U.S. Biodefenses: Why Cuts to Federal Health Agencies Make Americans Less Safe

by Stephanie Psaki and Beth Cameron

Apr 3rd, 2025
Regulated Democracy and Regulated Speech

by Daphne Keller

Apr 2nd, 2025
Regulating Social Media Platforms: Government, Speech, and the Law

by Tess Bridgeman, Justin Hendrix and Paul M. Barrett

Apr 2nd, 2025
Limited Protection: Israel’s High Court of Justice Rejection of Gaza Humanitarian Aid Petition

by Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen

Apr 1st, 2025
Upending the International Order: Why Undermining the UN Charter and US Defense Commitments is Self-Defeating

by Brian Finucane

Mar 27th, 2025
Signal Gate: The Criminal Law Precedents That Are Most Relevant

by Ryan Goodman

Mar 25th, 2025
Congress Spotlight: The Minority’s Toolbox and a Possible Way Forward

by David Rapallo

Mar 25th, 2025
The Imperative of Solidarity in Response to Assaults on Legal Services, Universities, and Independent Media

by Rebecca Hamilton

Mar 24th, 2025
The Trump Administration’s Recent Removals to El Salvador Violate the Prohibition on Transfer to Torture

by Rebecca Ingber and Scott Roehm

Mar 20th, 2025
Trump Move to Eliminate VOA, RFE/RL Ignores Lessons of Global Power

by Mark Pomar

Mar 20th, 2025
Shaping the AI Action Plan: Responses to the White House’s Request for Information

by Clara Apt and Brianna Rosen

Mar 18th, 2025
Is the Trump Administration Deliberately Violating a Federal Court Order?

by Marty Lederman

Mar 17th, 2025
Trump Administration Appears to Launch ‘Alien Enemies Act’ Deportation Program

by Ryan Goodman

Mar 15th, 2025
Putin and Trump Cannot Erase Ukraine, and Joint Efforts to Do So May Backfire

by Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel

Mar 14th, 2025
Rubio’s Stance Against Bosnia’s Separatists Spurs EU to Act Too

by Sead Turčalo

Mar 14th, 2025
What to Read on the Alien Enemies Act

by Just Security

Mar 13th, 2025
Suspension of FCPA Enforcement Is Bad for U.S. and Global Business

by Noor Hamadeh and David McKean

Mar 13th, 2025
What Just Happened: Security and Foreign Policy Implications of Pausing Intelligence Sharing with Ukraine

by Brett Holmgren

Mar 6th, 2025
Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire

by Matiangai Sirleaf

Mar 6th, 2025
Mapping State Reactions to the ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

by Rebecca Ingber

Mar 6th, 2025
Timeline: Politicization and Weaponization of Justice Department in Second Trump Administration

by Ryan Goodman and Audrey Balliette

Mar 4th, 2025
No, the Defense Department Did Not “Ignore” a Judicial Order in 1973 Cambodia Bombing Case

by Burt Neuborne

Feb 27th, 2025
The Voices from Kyiv: Is the World Legal Order in Decay?

by Maksym Vishchyk and Jeremy Pizzi

Feb 26th, 2025
Export Controls on Open-Source Models Will Not Win the AI Race

by Claudia Wilson and Emmie Hine

Feb 25th, 2025
How the Pentagon Personnel Firings Threaten Our Apolitical Military

by Mark Nevitt

Feb 24th, 2025
Why the Rule of Law Depends on an Evidentiary Hearing in Mayor Eric Adams’ Case

by Andrew Weissmann

Feb 23rd, 2025
What Just Happened: Musk-OPM Send Email to Federal Employees Asking for Five Accomplishments

by Nicholas Bednar

Feb 22nd, 2025
Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Feb. 17-21, 2025)

by Just Security

Feb 21st, 2025
The Fundamental Flaws in the Barnett/Wurman Defense of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

by Adam Cox, Pamela Karlan, Marty Lederman, Trevor Morrison and Cristina Rodríguez

Feb 19th, 2025
The People of New York v. Mayor Adams: Will Manhattan DA Bragg Come to the Rescue Yet Again?

by Andrew Weissmann

Feb 18th, 2025
The Resilience of International Law in the Face of Empire

by Eyal Benvenisti

Feb 17th, 2025
A Nordic ‘Trump-Mitigation’ Strategy Amid a Return of Power Politics

by Erlingur Erlingsson

Feb 17th, 2025
The Disastrous Costs of the Foreign Aid Freeze on US Interests in the Middle East and North Africa

by Seth Binder, Sheridan Cole and Haydn Welch

Feb 14th, 2025
What Just Happened: Purges at the DOJ and FBI — How Do and Don’t the Civil Service Laws Apply

by Roderick M. Hills

Feb 14th, 2025
Freezing Support to Democracy and Human Rights Activists Undermines US Interests

by Scott Busby

Feb 13th, 2025
Supporting Freedom and a Foreign Aid Freeze are Incompatible — But Perhaps the Point? A Case Study

by Laura Thornton

Feb 13th, 2025
The Munich Security Conference Provides an Opportunity to Improve on the AI Elections Accord

by Alexandra Reeve Givens

Feb 13th, 2025
The Need for Course Correction: The Risks of Treating Drug Cartels as Terrorist Threats

by Donell Harvin

Feb 12th, 2025
What Just Happened: Security Implications of Trump’s Efforts to Trim the CIA Workforce

by Alex Finley

Feb 7th, 2025
What DeepSeek Really Changes About AI Competition

by Konstantin F. Pilz and Lennart Heim

Feb 3rd, 2025
Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?

by Tess Bridgeman

Feb 1st, 2025
The Real Reason Trump’s Purge of Career DOJ Officials Should Alarm You

by Sara Zdeb

Jan 30th, 2025
Beware the “Deferred Resignation” Offer: A Legally Dubious Proposal for Federal Employees

by Suzanne Summerlin

Jan 29th, 2025
What Just Happened: The Framing of a Migration “Invasion” and the Use of Military Authorities

by William Banks

Jan 29th, 2025
Understanding Trump’s Choice for FBI Leadership in Light of the“Weaponization of the Federal Government” Executive Order

by Stuart M. Gerson

Jan 29th, 2025
Trump’s Dictatorial Theory of Presidential Power – What the Executive Orders, in the Aggregate, Tell Us

by Adam Cox and Trevor Morrison

Jan 28th, 2025
What Just Happened: The “Invasion” Executive Order and Its Dangerous Implications

by Ilya Somin

Jan 28th, 2025
Stopped Security Assistance: From Counter-Narcotics to Combating Human Trafficking Programs

by Dafna H. Rand

Jan 28th, 2025
We Need the International Legal Order: A Call to Protect the International Criminal Court

by The Current and Former Presidents of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court

Jan 27th, 2025
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire: Temporary Reprieve or Sustainable Peace?

by Andrew Miller

Jan 27th, 2025
Syria Needs the International Criminal Court

by Kenneth Roth

Jan 27th, 2025
What Just Happened: Trump’s Executive Actions on Environment and Implications for US Climate Security

by Tom Ellison

Jan 24th, 2025
What Just Happened: What Trump’s Hobbling of the Privacy Oversight Board Portends for Exercise of Surveillance Powers

by Andrew Weissmann

Jan 22nd, 2025
What Just Happened: Trump’s January 6 Pardons and Assaults on Law Enforcement Officers By The Numbers

by Tom Joscelyn

Jan 22nd, 2025
What Just Happened: Unpacking Exec Order on National Emergency at the Southern Border

by Mark Nevitt

Jan 21st, 2025
What Just Happened: With ICC Sanctions

by Tess Bridgeman and Rebecca Hamilton

Jan 21st, 2025
Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order and What Comes Next Under Trump

by David Aaron

Jan 21st, 2025
Crisis in Georgia: Why the Trump Administration Should Step In To Shore Up US Influence

by Ambassador (ret) Ian Kelly and David J. Kramer

Jan 17th, 2025
Unpacking the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on AI Infrastructure

by Clara Apt and Brianna Rosen

Jan 16th, 2025
3 Highlights in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Final Report on 2020 Election Subversion Case

by Tom Joscelyn and Ryan Goodman

Jan 14th, 2025
Questions for Senators (And Journalists) to Ask Attorney General Nominee Pam Bondi

by Just Security

Jan 14th, 2025
Questions for Senators (and Journalists) to Ask Secretary of State Nominee Marco Rubio

by Just Security

Jan 14th, 2025
How Not to Decide TikTok: U.S. press freedom hangs in the balance

by David Cole

Jan 13th, 2025
Unpacking the Inspector General Report on January 6th and FBI “False Flag” Conspiracies

by Tom Joscelyn

Jan 10th, 2025
National Security Resilience and Reform: Trump 2.0 and Beyond

by Harold Hongju Koh

Jan 8th, 2025
Announcing Just Security’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Initiative

by Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman

Jan 6th, 2025
Suing the Taliban at the ICJ Over Abuses of Afghan Women Isn’t a Panacea. Countries Must Do More Now.

by Jayne Huckerby

Jan 3rd, 2025
The Just Security 2024 Year-End Book Recommendations

by Just Security

Dec 24th, 2024
Russia’s “Human Safari” Terror Tactic in Key Southeastern Ukraine Region of Kherson

by Mercedes Sapuppo

Dec 23rd, 2024
U.S. Options for Iran Diplomacy in 2025

by Kelsey Davenport

Dec 23rd, 2024
An Interim Report on the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion

by Corina Heri

Dec 21st, 2024
New Challenges to Xi Jinping’s Alternative Facts on Taiwan: Lessons for the Human Rights Space, Too

by Sophie Richardson

Dec 20th, 2024
The AI Presidency: What “America First” Means for Global AI Governance

by Brianna Rosen

Dec 16th, 2024
The First Trump Administration Used Sanctions Effectively in Africa. Here’s How That Can Resume in the Second Term.

by Brad Brooks-Rubin

Dec 13th, 2024
Does the Int’l Criminal Court Impose Too Low a Standard of Proof to Arrest a Head of State?

by Todd Buchwald and Charlie Trumbull

Dec 12th, 2024
Biden’s Unfinished Business: A Bridge to Shore Up a European Flank – in the Balkans

by Kurt Bassuener

Dec 12th, 2024
Georgia Risks Falling to a Violent One-Party Regime. The Biden Administration Must Act Now to Stop Its Slide.

by David J. Kramer and Ambassador (ret) Ian Kelly

Dec 11th, 2024
Syrians’ Pursuit of Freedom and Self-Governance: Prioritizing a Locally-Driven and Incremental Approach to Constitutionalism

by Deyaa Alrwishdi and Rebecca Hamilton

Dec 11th, 2024
The Spreading Impact of Restrictive ‘Foreign Agent’ Laws and How to Stop Them

by Jasmine D. Cameron and Fernanda G. Nicola

Dec 10th, 2024
The Public Framing of Mass Deportation

by Adam Cox and Ryan Goodman

Dec 9th, 2024
Interpol General Assembly Inches Forward on Transparency, Still Needs Reform Strategy

by Ted R. Bromund and Sandra Grossman

Dec 9th, 2024
Open Letter on Georgia from Former US Diplomats

by David J. Kramer and Ambassador (ret) John E. Herbst

Dec 3rd, 2024
Deployment of the U.S. Military for Immigration Enforcement: A Primer

by Elizabeth Goitein

Dec 3rd, 2024
Camera-Fitted Drones May Help Locate Graves of Mexico’s Disappeared

by Karina García-Reyes and Miguel Moctezuma

Nov 26th, 2024
Birthright Citizenship and Undocumented Immigrants

by Ilya Somin

Nov 25th, 2024
Nuts & Bolts of the International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants in the ‘Situation in Palestine’

by Tom Dannenbaum

Nov 22nd, 2024
To ‘End’ War in Ukraine, Trump Might Be Tougher on Putin Than Critics Think

by Viola Gienger

Nov 21st, 2024
Biden’s Final Efforts on Ukraine — and Trump’s First Moves

by Ambassador Daniel Fried

Nov 19th, 2024
Thinking Beyond Risks: A Symposium on Tech and Atrocity Prevention

by Gwendolyn Whidden

Nov 19th, 2024
Do Sanctions Work? It Depends. Burma and the West Bank Might Be Models.

by Brad Brooks-Rubin

Nov 13th, 2024
As Ukraine Struggles for Troops, Its Constitutional Court Considers the Rights of Conscientious Objectors

by Andrii Nekoliak

Nov 12th, 2024
The United States Must Win The Global Open Source AI Race

by Keegan McBride and Dean W. Ball

Nov 7th, 2024
Journalist in Exile Laments Kyrgyzstan Crackdown, Now Extending to His 12-Year-Old Son

by Bolot Temirov

Nov 6th, 2024
Election 2024 Real-Time Litigation Tracker

by Norman L. Eisen, Joyce Vance, Samara Angel, Clare Boone and Madison Gee

Nov 5th, 2024
Abu Ghraib Dejà Vu

by Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Stephen N. Xenakis, MD

Nov 4th, 2024
Top 10 Election Litigation Cases in 2024 Implicating the Rule of Law

by Norman L. Eisen, Samara Angel and Clare Boone

Nov 4th, 2024
A Historic Day for Older People and Human Rights Across Africa

by Elie Mugabowishema and Jane Buchanan

Nov 4th, 2024
As Interpol Gets New Secretary General, What are the Risks of Abuses Over Reforms?

by Ted R. Bromund, Sandra Grossman and Ilan Greenberg

Nov 1st, 2024

Resources

Trackers

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

by Just Security

Apr 15th, 2025
Mapping State Reactions to the ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

by Rebecca Ingber

Mar 6th, 2025
Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection

by Clara Apt

Aug 26th, 2024
UNGA 79: Expert Analysis & Resources

by Clara Apt, Maya Nir and Viola Gienger

Sep 19th, 2024

Series

Regulating Social Media Platforms: Government, Speech, and the Law

by Tess Bridgeman, Justin Hendrix and Paul M. Barrett

Apr 2nd, 2025
Collection: Just Security’s Coverage of Trump Administration Executive Actions

by Just Security

Apr 10th, 2025
Thinking Beyond Risks: A Symposium on Tech and Atrocity Prevention

by Gwendolyn Whidden

Nov 19th, 2024
Symposium on Harold Hongju Koh’s ‘The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century’

by Just Security

Oct 25th, 2024
Symposium: ICC Prosecutor Launches Policy on Complementarity and Cooperation

by René Urueña

Jun 20th, 2024
Introducing the Symposium on AI and Human Rights

by Jessica Peake

Jun 17th, 2024
Symposium: International Law in Ukraine – The View from Lviv

by Just Security

Apr 5th, 2024
A Symposium on the International Criminal Court and the Israel-Hamas War

by Just Security

Jan 7th, 2024
2024 and Beyond: Just Security’s US Election Protection Coverage

by Allison Mollenkamp

Dec 4th, 2023
Introducing Just Security’s Series on Reparations in Russia’s War Against Ukraine

by Megan Corrarino

Feb 20th, 2024
It’s Time to Establish a Syria Victims Fund

by Joumana Seif

Feb 19th, 2024
The Future of Atrocity Prevention: A Joint Symposium

by Gwendolyn Whidden

Oct 31st, 2023
Introducing the Symposium on AI Governance: Power, Justice, and the Limits of the Law

by Brianna Rosen

Oct 18th, 2023
Introduction to Symposium: Ending Perpetual War

by Brianna Rosen

Sep 11th, 2023
Joint Symposium on U.S. Cooperation with the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine Investigation

by Just Security

Jul 17th, 2023
U.N. General Assembly and International Criminal Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine

by Just Security

May 9th, 2023
Introducing the Symposium on U.S. Support for the ICC’s Trust Fund for Victims

by Paul R. Williams, Milena Sterio, Yvonne Dutton, Alexandra Koch, Lilian Waldock, Floriane Lavaud, Ashika Singh and Isabelle Glimcher

Feb 13th, 2023
Antisemitism and Threats to American Democracy

by Eileen B. Hershenov and Ryan B. Greer

Jan 26th, 2023
Toward a Values-Based Foreign Policy: Developing an Ethical Checklist

by Ambassador Peter Mulrean (ret.) and William J. Hawk

Jan 4th, 2023
Tracking COP27: Notable Moments and Key Themes

by Clara Apt and Katherine Fang

Nov 18th, 2022
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Reflections on Tribal Sovereignty in Haaland v. Brackeen

by Amanda L. White Eagle

Oct 10th, 2022
Ending Perpetual War

by Brianna Rosen

Oct 25th, 2022
The Case for Creating an International Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (Part I)

by Oona A. Hathaway

Sep 20th, 2022
Introduction to Symposium: Still at War – Where and Why the United States is Fighting the “War on Terror”

by Tess Bridgeman and Brianna Rosen

Mar 24th, 2022
After a Year of Privation With the Taliban’s Return, the People of Afghanistan Deserve Better from the US and the World

by Ambassador Nasir A. Andisha and Marzia Marastoni

Aug 15th, 2022
Introduction to Just Security’s Series on Executive Order 9066, 80 Years After Signing

by Megan Corrarino

Feb 18th, 2022
Congress Can and Should Address the Threat from Unauthorized Paramilitary Activity

by Mary B. McCord

Jan 24th, 2022
The Good Governance Papers: A January 2022 “Report Card” Update

by Emily Berman, Tess Bridgeman, Megan Corrarino, Ryan Goodman and Dakota S. Rudesill

Jan 20th, 2022
Symposium Recap: Security, Privacy and Innovation – Reshaping Law for the AI Era

by Laura Brawley, Antara Joardar and Madhu Narasimhan

Oct 29th, 2021
Towards a New Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity: Next Steps

by Leila Nadya Sadat

Sep 13th, 2021
Introduction to Symposium: How Perpetual War Has Changed Us — Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11

by Tess Bridgeman, Rachel Goldbrenner and Ryan Goodman

Sep 7th, 2021
New Just Security Series: Beyond the Myanmar Coup

by Just Security

Jul 19th, 2021

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