Community Spotlight

Congratulations to Executive Editor Bec Hamilton, American University’s 2025 Scholar/Teacher of the Year. The award recognizes her for “immeasurably” contributing to the AU community, the field of law, and the lives of her students and colleagues.

Congratulations to Executive Editor Oona Hathaway, who will join the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. She was tapped based on “prior career achievement and exceptional promise.”

Just Security’s Director for AI & Emerging Technologies Dr. Brianna Rosen chaired a panel on AI diplomacy and defence at the Qatar-UK AI Symposium in London.

JS co-editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman discussed the legal implications, and told the Post his fears for downstream effects. Read Goodman’s analysis of criminal law precedents relevant to Signal Gate.>

JS Executive Editor Rebecca Hamilton spoke to The World’s Carolyn Beeler about the U.S. State Department’s revocation of visas for all South Sudanese nationals.   Listen to the interview and read Hamilton’s analysis of the issue.

Just Security Executive Editor Matiangai Sirleaf wins American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit book award for high technical craftsmanship and utility to lawyers and scholars. The book: “Race and National Security,” a Just Security collaboration with Oxford University Press.

Executive Editor Oona Hathaway nominated to serve as President-elect of the American Society of International Law. The organization is home to over 3000 international law scholars and practitioners from more than 100 countries and publishes the American Journal of International Law.

“When this first went down, without knowing anything about the person responsible…the first thing I thought of was there was a spate of similar attacks in 2016 and 2017 that had various degrees of ISIS inspiration or connection,” Joscelyn told CBC reporter Mark Gollom.

Washington Post correspondent Greg Miller interviewed JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin on the abuse of counterterrorism frameworks by backsliding democracies and authoritarian regimes around the world.

Scott Roehm and Ian Moss’s “How Much (or Little) Does Biden Administration Want Justice in 9/11 Case?” informed Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Richard Durbin’s letter to the Secretary of Defense calling for “justice and judicial finality for the victims,” of 9/11 and their families.

NPR host Leila Fadel interviewed Brian Finucane, Member of Just Security’s Board of Editors, about whether Israel’s alleged use of exploding pagers and other devices in Lebanon violated international humanitarian law. Read Finucane’s analysis for Just Security here.

With the Wall Street Journal, Ryan Goodman helped break down the Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. United States.