2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (561+ words) It’s the Fourth of July. You’re preparing to host a barbecue. Up and down your street, flags are snapping in the wind, as a few kids in red, white, and blue trickle home from the neighborhood parade. It’s a celebration…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (273+ words) We were both set to attend, with rapidly approaching flights, when the decision came just eight days before the planned start. Many others had already traveled to Zambia, meeting with partners and laying the groundwork for what promised to be…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (619+ words) These events continue to raise concerns in the Baltic nations, and NATO more broadly, over preparedness (or a lack thereof) for countering Russian UAV attacks. Indeed, the May incident, following on the heels of the earlier ones, has led to…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1263+ words) Franklin D. Rosenblatt is an Associate Professor at Mississippi College School of Law, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, and President of the National Institute of Military Justice. Before becoming a full-time law professor, Professor Rosenblatt first-chaired litigation…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (184+ words) To address this specific challenge, the investigations committee, which consisted of staff from across the Dutch MoD, set out two recommendations; In the development of missions and operations, pay attention to the residual risks associated with dependence on coalition partners…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1643+ words) Ward Ferdinandusse (LinkedIn) is the Deputy Specialist Prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, which investigates and prosecutes war crimes and crimes against humanity in the period 1998-2000 as well as obstruction of justice offences. As prosecutor in the Dutch National…...

4+ mon, 17+ hour ago   (516+ words) Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal (LinkedIn - Bluesky) is Associate Professor of Law and Development at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. He founded the Program on Human Rights and Justice…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (565+ words) In the summer of 2021, the Islamic Republic of Iran allegedly hired an operative to abduct journalist and women’s rights defender Masih Alinejad from her own front garden in Brooklyn and smuggle her back to Tehran, where the regime has branded…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (721+ words) Rebecca Ingber (Bluesky - LinkedIn - X) is a Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, and a senior fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. She is…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (511+ words) World leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York a decade ago to commit to ending attacks on healthcare during war. The unanimous adoption of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2286 on May 3, 2016, reaffirmed that parties to conflict must protect healthcare and…...