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Articles in Law & Justice tagged with War and National Security

A. Dirk Moses

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

Stefanie Fox

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

Deborah Chasman, Noura Erakat

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

Feisal G. Mohamed

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Baher Azmy

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Sophia Goodfriend

In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.

Erica X Eisen

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.

Helena Cobban
The explosion was only the latest tragedy in the city’s long decline.
Joelle M. Abi-Rached
In the wake of the devastating explosion, civil society has shown the way forward—filling the void of a nonexistent and incapacitated state.
Sam Klug
As both politicians and historians mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must guard against the presumption that the United States remains the benevolent center of global politics.

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