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Adam Klasfeld

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Trump Fails to Get N.Y. Hush-Money Case Dismissed, as Judge Gears Up for March Trial

by Adam Klasfeld

Feb 15th, 2024

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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
A Symposium on the International Criminal Court and the Israel-Hamas War

by Just Security

Dec 30th, 2024
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
Mapping State Reactions to the ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

by Rebecca Ingber

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
Congress Should Protect Americans from Transnational Repression

by Rasheed Ahmed

Oct 31st, 2024
Is The Pentagon’s Plan to Protect Civilians Living up to its Promises?

by Madison Hunke

Oct 31st, 2024
Top 10 Election Litigation Cases in 2024 Implicating the Rule of Law

by Norman L. Eisen, Samara Angel and Clare Boone

Oct 30th, 2024
Rising Authoritarianism and Plutocracy Are a Dangerous Mix for Press Freedom

by Rachel Kleinfeld

Oct 30th, 2024
Does a “Presumptive” Privilege Protect President Trump from Prosecution for Pressuring Pence?

by Albert W. Alschuler

Oct 29th, 2024
Frictionless Government and the National Security Constitution

by Ashley Deeks and Kristen Eichensehr

Oct 28th, 2024
Making Sense of International Law in Light of Israel and Iran’s Latest Round of “Retaliation”

by Eliav Lieblich

Oct 26th, 2024
On Dictatorship and Self-Censorship: Lessons the Owner of a Sudanese Newspaper Could Give Jeff Bezos

by Rebecca Hamilton

Oct 25th, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing: Recent Changes to Department of Defense Directive 5240.01

by Joseph Nunn and Elizabeth Goitein

Oct 25th, 2024
The U.S. National Security Memorandum on AI: Leading Experts Weigh In

by Just Security

Oct 25th, 2024
Fair and Fast Asylum Processing: Lessons from Switzerland

by Daniel Ghezelbash and Constantin Hruschka

Oct 24th, 2024
Top 10 Election Litigation Cases in 2024 Implicating the Rule of Law

by Norman L. Eisen, Samara Angel and Clare Boone

Oct 23rd, 2024
Rule of Law Index Shows Some Rays of Hope Amidst Continuing Global Recession

by Elizabeth Andersen and Alicia Evangelides

Oct 23rd, 2024
Heat Map of January 6th Defendants Across the United States

by Ryan Goodman

Oct 17th, 2024
Proud Boys Threat Assessment: From the Planning of January 6th to Future Scenarios

by Tom Joscelyn

Oct 17th, 2024
Top 10 Election Litigation Cases in 2024 Implicating the Rule of Law

by Norman L. Eisen, Samara Angel and Clare Boone

Oct 16th, 2024
Lifting Russia Sanctions – What Can a President Do Unilaterally?

by Taisa Markus

Oct 16th, 2024
Refuting the Latest Baseless Attacks Against Special Counsel Jack Smith

by Andrew Weissmann and Ryan Goodman

Oct 15th, 2024
What the UN’s Summit of the Future Can Teach Us – When the Dust Settles

by Jordan Street

Oct 11th, 2024
The “War Game” Documentary, and Simulating a Worse January 6th

by Dakota S. Rudesill

Oct 10th, 2024
Maintaining the Rule of Law in the Age of AI

by Katie Szilagyi

Oct 9th, 2024
Top 10 Election Litigation Cases in 2024 Implicating the Rule of Law

by Norman L. Eisen, Samara Angel and Clare Boone

Oct 8th, 2024
Shattering Illusions: How Cyber Threat Intelligence Augments Legal Action against Russia’s Influence Operations

by Mason W. Krusch

Oct 8th, 2024
Beyond Law: Reaffirming the Centrality of Ethics in War

by Elke Schwarz and Neil Renic

Oct 7th, 2024
Who’s Who in Jack Smith’s Immunity Brief

by Adam Klasfeld

Oct 4th, 2024
The Threat from Unlawful Private Militias Has Evolved. The Federal Government’s Response Must Evolve Too.

by Mary B. McCord and Jacob Glick

Oct 4th, 2024
US Should Learn from Afghanistan and Vietnam Withdrawals to Better Protect Vulnerable Allies

by R. Scott Adams

Oct 3rd, 2024
Threats and Response Options in the Escalating Israel-Iran Conflict

by Brianna Rosen

Oct 2nd, 2024
The UN’s New Pact for the Future: A Milestone That Can Set a Path for Change

by Richard Ponzio

Oct 2nd, 2024
AI at UNGA79: Recapping Key Themes

by Clara Apt

Oct 1st, 2024
The State Department Reform Commission: A Once in A Generation Opportunity to Reform American Diplomacy

by Dan Spokojny

Sep 30th, 2024
Analysis of Remarkable and Unremarkable Aspects of Iranian 2024 Election Interference Indictment

by David Aaron

Sep 28th, 2024
The Next Step for USAID’s New Digital Policy: Account for Conflict Risks and Include Peacebuilding

by Claire Guinta and Nick Zuroski

Sep 27th, 2024
Article 7(2) of Amended Protocol II on Conventional Weapons and the Lebanon Pager Explosions

by Brian Finucane

Sep 25th, 2024
Will US Public Support for Ukraine Aid Survive the Presidential Campaign?

by Robert Miron and Peter Feaver

Sep 25th, 2024
Rethinking the United Nations Cybercrime Treaty

by Jason Pielemeier

Sep 23rd, 2024
Why Criminalize Ecocide? Experts Weigh In

by Rebecca Hamilton

Sep 23rd, 2024
Musk, X, and Trump 2024: Where are the Legal and Ethical Boundaries?

by Justin Hendrix and Dean Jackson

Sep 20th, 2024
U.N. General Assembly High-Level Week 2024 : What Experts Are Looking For

by Viola Gienger

Sep 19th, 2024
A 2024 Election Litigation Hot List

by Norman L. Eisen, Adam Klasfeld, Samara Angel and Clare Boone

Sep 18th, 2024
Law of War Questions Raised by Exploding Pagers in Lebanon

by Brian Finucane

Sep 18th, 2024
Competition, Not Control, is Key to Winning the Global AI Race

by Matthew Mittelsteadt and Keegan McBride

Sep 17th, 2024
Political Violence in the United States Is Rising – and It Might Be Up to Americans to Say “Enough!”

by Rachel Kleinfeld

Sep 16th, 2024
America’s Overlooked National Security Threat

by Harold Hongju Koh

Sep 11th, 2024
To Challenge State Capture, the US Needs a Strategy of State Retrieval

by John Prendergast and Damon Wilson

Sep 10th, 2024
Telegram’s Security Sham

by Michael Van Landingham and Gavin Wilde

Sep 9th, 2024
Public-Safety Reform and Preventing Targeted Violence: Two Sides of the Same Public-Health Coin

by Eric Rosand, Stevan Weine and Alejandro Giménez Santana

Sep 6th, 2024
Putting the Second REAIM Summit into Context

by Tobias Vestner and Simon Cleobury

Sep 5th, 2024
The Growing Threat from North Korea

by The Hon. Michael Kirby

Aug 29th, 2024
‘Good Moral Character?’ Holding Trump to the Same Standards as the Immigrants He Vilifies

by Edgar Chen and Dan Ross

Aug 28th, 2024
Don’t Downplay Risks of AI for Democracy

by Suzanne Nossel

Aug 28th, 2024
Don’t Sanction the ICC for Doing its Job

by Michael Maya

Aug 27th, 2024
Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection

by Clara Apt

Aug 26th, 2024
Presidential Immunity Decision May Have Implications for Congressional-Executive Divide on Criminal Contempt

by Andy Wright

Aug 26th, 2024
Ukraine’s Incursion into Kursk Oblast: A Lawful Case of Defensive Invasion?

by Chris O'Meara

Aug 23rd, 2024
Expert Explainer: The US for the first time submits a formal brief to the International Criminal Court on the ‘Situation in Palestine’

by Todd Buchwald

Aug 22nd, 2024
Time for the International Criminal Court to Recognize Persons with Disabilities and the Slave Trade

by Janet Lord, Pace Schwarz, Matthew "Hezzy" Smith, Michael Ashley Stein, Alex Green and Rosemary Kayess

Aug 21st, 2024
The Just Security Podcast: Assessing the Recent Response of International Law and Institutions in Palestine and Israel

by Ardi Imseis, Shahd Hammouri, Victor Kattan, Matiangai Sirleaf, Paras Shah and Clara Apt

Aug 21st, 2024
A Presidential Proclamation to End the Iraq War: Unilateral Executive Action to Defang a Zombie AUMF

by Brian Finucane

Aug 20th, 2024
Unforced Error: Article 124 and the Regrettable Caveat to Ukraine’s Proposed Ratification of the ICC Statute

by Tom Dannenbaum

Aug 20th, 2024
Revoking the 9/11 Plea Deals: Human Rights Consequences

by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Aug 16th, 2024
Collecting Just Security’s Afghanistan Coverage on Third Anniversary of Taliban Takeover

by Maya Nir

Aug 15th, 2024
Breaking the Deadlock: New Talks Needed to Help End Sudan’s Violence and Offer a Glimmer of Hope

by Quscondy Abdulshafi

Aug 13th, 2024
The Perils of Expertise: How the DOJ Indictment of Sue Mi Terry Can Chill the Think Tank World

by Gregory B. Craig

Aug 12th, 2024
Justice for Trans-border Torture Requires Rethinking the International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

by Smadar Ben-Natan and Itamar Mann

Aug 7th, 2024
Our Lives Depend on the Cloud. Now What?

by John Pendleton and Ariel Levite

Aug 6th, 2024

Resources

Trackers

Mapping State Reactions to the ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

by Rebecca Ingber

Dec 10th, 2024
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

A Symposium on the International Criminal Court and the Israel-Hamas War

by Just Security

Dec 30th, 2024
Thinking Beyond Risks: A Symposium on Tech and Atrocity Prevention

by Gwendolyn Whidden

Nov 19th, 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
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
New Just Security Series: Reflections on Afghanistan on the Eve of Withdrawal

by Kate Brannen

Jun 30th, 2021
Introducing a Symposium on the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy

by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Kate Brannen

Jun 14th, 2021
The Méndez Principles: Leadership to Transform Interrogation via Science, Law, and Ethics

by Steven J. Barela and Mark Fallon

Jun 1st, 2021

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