Civil Liberties

Nonviolent Civic Action May Help Defend the Integrity of the Election

by Maria J. Stephan

Oct 13th, 2020

GIFCT: Possibly the Most Important Acronym You’ve Never Heard Of

by Courtney C. Radsch

Sep 30th, 2020

Bill Barr’s Misguided View of US History

by Aryeh Neier

Sep 24th, 2020

Toward a New Approach to National and Human Security: Uphold the Prohibition on Torture

by Hina Shamsi, Rita Siemion, Rev. Ron Stief, Terry Rockefeller, Scott Roehm and Katherine Gallagher

Sep 11th, 2020

Bringing Abolition to National Security

by Maryam Jamshidi

Aug 27th, 2020

Hardwired Against Change: Race, Incarceration, and COVID-19

by Andrea Armstrong

Aug 26th, 2020

The Supreme Court’s Attack on Habeas Corpus in DHS v. Thuraissigiam

by Gerald Neuman

Aug 25th, 2020

“Head-On Into Peril”: Connecting 9/11 and Law Enforcement Abuses in Portland

by Alka Pradhan

Aug 19th, 2020

Political Attacks on Eastern Europe Watchdogs Compound Threats to Democracy

by Jeff Cirillo

Aug 14th, 2020

Extrajudicial Executions from the United States to Palestine

by Noura Erakat

Aug 7th, 2020

In the Drive to Curb Police Abuses, Rein in Their Tech Too

by Lauren Sarkesian

Aug 7th, 2020

New Technologies, New Problems – Troubling Surveillance Trends in America

by Steven Feldstein and David Wong

Aug 6th, 2020

“Viral Convergence”: Interconnected Pandemics as Portal to Racial Justice

by Catherine Powell

Aug 5th, 2020

Beyond Color-Blind National Security Law

by James Thuo Gathii

Aug 3rd, 2020

Interview with Christof Heyns: Major New UN Comment on Right of Peaceful Assembly

by Christof Heyns and Elizabeth Andersen

Jul 29th, 2020

An Exercise in Doublespeak: Pompeo’s Flawed “Unalienable Rights” Commission

by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Jayne Huckerby and Sarah Knuckey

Jul 29th, 2020

The UN Cannot Live on Past Laurels: The Time for Courageous Leadership on Anti-Black Racism Is Now

by Adelle Blackett

Jul 22nd, 2020

Pandemic Politics: Race, Sex, and the Supreme Court

by Aziza Ahmed

Jul 17th, 2020

Transitional Justice in the United States

by Colleen Murphy

Jul 16th, 2020

Does Transitional Justice Belong in the United States?

by Yuvraj Joshi

Jul 13th, 2020

Under Cover of COVID at the UN: Why Counterterrorism Is Not the Answer to a Pandemic

by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Jul 10th, 2020

It’s Time to Stop the Use of Tear Gas Against Civilians

by Diane Bernabei

Jul 1st, 2020

Northern Ireland’s Lessons for American Policing

by Martin S. Flaherty

Jun 24th, 2020

Why the Calls to Deploy Military Force in the US Protests Weren’t Surprising

by Eliav Lieblich and Adam Shinar

Jun 23rd, 2020

Assessing the Government’s Lawsuit Against John Bolton [UPDATED after Wednesday’s filing of a TRO motion]

by Jack Goldsmith and Marty Lederman

Jun 17th, 2020

Black Lives Matter Might Just Rescue American Democracy

by Oona A. Hathaway and Daniel Markovits

Jun 16th, 2020

The Strength of America’s Apolitical Military

by Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman, Deborah A. McCarthy and Thomas Countryman

Jun 15th, 2020

International Standards Regarding the Handling of Demonstrations

by Marta Achler and Martin Scheinin

Jun 10th, 2020

What Does the Constitutional Right of Assembly Protect? What Counts as “Peaceable”? And Who Should Decide?

by Tabatha Abu El-Haj

Jun 9th, 2020

Standing, Not-Standing with the Protesters: U.S. Policy on Hong Kong and BLM