Aaron Fellmeth[1] In July 2022, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights,[2] Alena Douhan,[3] submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council a report...
Written by Hendrick Townley & Asaf Lubin “It was noon on an ordinary sunny spring day in May, but the scene was not as it should have been outside the Islamic Da’wah Center in...
Written by Jonathan J. Rusch “Within the past year, the tides of global corruption have begun a perceptible shift. In a growing number of countries . . .”
Frédéric Sourgens’s recent article, The Privacy Principle, dares to ask a provocative question: can international law regulate global surveillance programs without sacrificing national security interests?
Written by Michael N. Schmitt In 2015 and 2016, hackers affiliated with the Russian government broke into servers of the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC). The subsequent release of documents hurt Democrats in Congressional races, led...
By Lea Brilmayer “Success, in domestic and international litigation alike, depends on finding a court with jurisdiction over the defendant. American constitutional law, which governs assertion of jurisdiction even over international defendants in American courts, has developed...
The United Nations Security Council (“Council”) has performed a central role since the end of the Cold War in establishing mechanisms to hold perpetrators of international crimes accountable. . .
Until recently, Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (“MLATs”) were dusty, specialists’ treaties used mostly to gather evidence during investigations of transnational crimes. . .
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union presents an opportunity to reconsider an old idea: requiring foreign investors to exhaust local remedies before bringing investor-state...
How do we tell the refugee story? We—refugee advocates, the press, international organizations—frequently focus on a dramatic personal story, often one of tragedy.