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Feisal G. Mohamed is Professor of English at Yale. Also trained in law, he is author, most recently, of Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary. His writing has also appeared in Dissent, The New Republic, and The New York Times.
The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.
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