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# The International Law Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Boat Strikes

The only way States can avoid complicity in “arbitrary killings” under international human rights law is to refrain from sharing intelligence that, in part, enables them.

Nov. 17, 2025 Michael Schmitt, Marko Milanovic and 1 more

## Much Work to Do and No Time to Waste: Mitigating Civilian Harm in an Asia-Pacific Conflict

Civilian harm is not entirely avoidable during armed conflict, but it can be anticipated and its severity limited. In Asia-Pacific, this depends entirely on steps taken now.

Nov. 17, 2025 Jenny McAvoy

## Unfounded Faith in Sri Lanka’s Government Risks Extending Impunity

The international community’s faith that Sri Lanka is genuinely willing to break from decades of systemic impunity ignores—and even fuels—ongoing human rights violations…

Nov. 17, 2025 Anji Manivannan and Alyssa Yamamoto

## Featured Articles

### Soldiers in Robes: Why Military Lawyers Can Not and Should Not Serve as Immigration Judges

DOJ’s recent decision to appoint several military lawyers, or JAGs, to serve as immigration judges is not only against the law, but a bad idea.

Nov. 17, 2025 Mark Nevitt and Margy O’Herron

### The Just Security Podcast: Examining the Trump Administration’s New Antifa Designations

Tom Joscelyn talks with former DOJ counsel Tom Brzozowski about new Antifa designations, their civil liberties impact, and changing limits on speech and association.

Nov. 17, 2025 Thomas E. Brzozowski and Tom Joscelyn

### The Political Theater Behind Trump’s “Guns-a-Blazing” Nigeria Threat

Trump’s threat of military intervention in Nigeria may be intended more for domestic audiences and wouldn't address the drivers of the country's conflict.

Nov. 14, 2025 Lesley Anne Warner

### Ukraine’s Ironclad Security Is Inseparable from Peace

After abandoning nuclear arms for the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine faces existential war -- proof that security “assurances” alone won't be enough now.

Nov. 14, 2025 Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.

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## Recent Articles

### Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Nov. 10-14, 2025)

Nov. 15, 2025 Just Security

### Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

Nov. 14, 2025 Just Security

### A Point of Clarification Re the International Lawyers’ Statement on Gaza

Nov. 13, 2025 Letters to the Editor

### Walls of Silence, Crumbling Futures: Why the World Must Act on Afghanistan

Nov. 12, 2025 Hanifa Girowal

### The Year Every Young American Should Serve

Nov. 11, 2025 David E. White Jr.

### The Anti-Corruption Tracker: Mapping the Erosion of Oversight and Accountability

Nov. 11, 2025 Dani Schulkin, Amy Markopoulos and 1 more

### Before Enforcing the New Foreign Data Law (PADFAA), Congress Must Fix These Five Things

Nov. 11, 2025 Lartease Tiffith

### Impunity by Design: Latin America’s Quiet Crisis of Accountability

Nov. 10, 2025 Jeffrey A. Tobin

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- ### Immigration Law: Syllabus Supplements
- ### Collection: Just Security’s Coverage of Trump Administration Executive Actions
- ### Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
- ### The Anti-Corruption Tracker: Mapping the Erosion of Oversight and Accountability
- ### Just Security’s Artificial Intelligence Archive
- ### Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers
- ### Just Security’s Israel-Hamas War Archive
- ### Just Security’s Climate Archive
- ### Just Security’s Russia–Ukraine War Archive
- ### Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection
- ### Mapping State Reactions to the ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
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## Series

### Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers

Nov. 6, 2025 Just Security

### A Series on the Occasion of ABILA’s International Law Weekend 2025

Nov. 3, 2025 Maya Nir, Freya Doughty-Wagner and 1 more

### “When the Guardrails Erode” Series

Jul. 23, 2025 Dani Schulkin, Amy Markopoulos and 1 more

### Governing the Quantum Revolution

May 1, 2025 Michael Karanicolas

### Regulating Social Media Platforms: Government, Speech, and the Law

Apr. 2, 2025 Tess Bridgeman, Justin Hendrix and 1 more

### Symposium: International Law in Ukraine – The View from Lviv

Apr. 5, 2024 Just Security

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## Democracy & Rule of Law

### The Just Security Podcast: Examining the Trump Administration’s New Antifa Designations

Nov. 17, 2025 Thomas E. Brzozowski and Tom Joscelyn

### The Year Every Young American Should Serve

Nov. 11, 2025 David E. White Jr.

### The Anti-Corruption Tracker: Mapping the Erosion of Oversight and Accountability

Nov. 11, 2025 Dani Schulkin, Amy Markopoulos and 1 more

### Impunity by Design: Latin America’s Quiet Crisis of Accountability

Nov. 10, 2025 Jeffrey A. Tobin

## Executive Branch

### Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

Nov. 14, 2025 Just Security

### Collection: Just Security’s Coverage of Trump Administration Executive Actions

Nov. 3, 2025 Just Security

### Trump’s Use of Consent Decrees to Dismantle Policy

Sep. 23, 2025 John Lewis and Aaron Baum

## AI & Emerging Technology

### How Tech Platforms Allowed Russia Into Moldova: Lessons for the EU and Others

Oct. 29, 2025 Austin Akers

### Will Victims of Cyber Attacks Soon Get Their Day in Court? Options for Accountability for Cyber Attacks

Oct. 20, 2025 Harriet Moynihan, Amal Clooney and 1 more

### Just Security’s Artificial Intelligence Archive

Oct. 20, 2025 Clara Apt and Brianna Rosen

### Governing AI Agents Globally: The Role of International Law, Norms and Accountability Mechanisms

Oct. 17, 2025 Talita Dias

## Congress

### Before Enforcing the New Foreign Data Law (PADFAA), Congress Must Fix These Five Things

Nov. 11, 2025 Lartease Tiffith

### The Use of Tariffs to Raise Revenue is a Choice for Congress, not the President

Nov. 3, 2025 Kelsey Merrick

### Expert Backgrounder on War Powers Resolution 60-Day Clock for Boat Strikes Expiring Monday

Oct. 31, 2025 Rebecca Ingber and Jessica Thibodeau

## Armed Conflict

### Much Work to Do and No Time to Waste: Mitigating Civilian Harm in an Asia-Pacific Conflict

Nov. 17, 2025 Jenny McAvoy

### The Political Theater Behind Trump’s “Guns-a-Blazing” Nigeria Threat

Nov. 14, 2025 Lesley Anne Warner

### Ukraine’s Ironclad Security Is Inseparable from Peace

Nov. 14, 2025 Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.

### A Point of Clarification Re the International Lawyers’ Statement on Gaza

Nov. 13, 2025 Letters to the Editor

## Courts & Litigation

### Soldiers in Robes: Why Military Lawyers Can Not and Should Not Serve as Immigration Judges

Nov. 17, 2025 Mark Nevitt and Margy O’Herron

### Legal Progress Stalls for Northern Ireland Families

Nov. 3, 2025 Brian Dooley and Suchita Uppal

### A SCOTUS Bench Memo for the Trump Tariff Case: Separation of Powers, Delegation, Emergencies, and Pretext

Nov. 3, 2025 Harold Hongju Koh, Bruce Swartz and 8 more

## Community Spotlight

- ### JS Editor Mark Nevitt and Author Sarah Harrison Featured in Washington Post

Washington Post‘s Warren Strobel, Ellen Nakashima and Noah Robertson cite Nevitt’s and Harrison’s Just Security article discussing the U.S. military’s lethal strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific and the collapse

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- ### Co-Editor-in-Chief Ryan Goodman Featured on 60 Minutes

60 Minutes interviewed Goodman on a study published at Just Security on how courts have reacted to the Trump administration on issues of compliance and false information.

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- ### JS Executive Editor Rebecca Hamilton Talks Sudan on Australia’s ABC

Executive Editor Rebecca Hamilton updated Australians on the war in Sudan in an extended interview with TV Broadcaster ABC.

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- ### JS Executive Editor Ní Aoláin Elected Fellow of the British Academy

JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons) has been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

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- ### JS Executive Editor Announced Fullbright U.S. Scholar

Congratulations to JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2025-2026 in the Fullbright-Schuman European Union Affairs Program.

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- ### JS Executive Editor Oona Hathaway named Berlin Prize recipient

Oona Hathaway is one of 20 fellows awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. She will use the fellowship to write her book, “War Unbound.”

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- ### Co-editor-in-chief Speaks to Financial Times on Judicial appointees

JS co-editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman discussed friction between president Trump and conservative legal community over judicial appointees with FT’s US legal and enforcement correspondent, Stefania Palma.

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- ### Co-editor-in-chief Speaks to WSJ about Immigration Policy

JS co-editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman discussed the political and legal challenges facing the Trump administration’s immigration policy with WSJ Supreme Court Correspondent Jess Bravin.

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- ### JS author featured in ABA Journal

Senior writer for the ABA Journal, Debra Cassens Weiss, features Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s article about a provision in the House budget bill that would limit federal courts’ contempt power.

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- ### JS Editor Monica Bell, Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School, named 2025-2026 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Congratulations to Monica Bell, who will join the 26th class of Radcliffe fellows. Bell was chosen for her expertise in issues of inequality, violence, safety, and racial justice.

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- ### JS Executive Editor Rebecca Hamilton named AU’s Scholar/Teacher of the Year

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 and the field of law.

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- ### JS Executive Editor Oona Hathaway named 2025 Guggenheim Fellow

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.”

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- ### JS AIET Director and Senior Fellow Brianna Rosen at Qatar-UK AI Symposium

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.

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- ### Co-editor-in-chief speaks to Washington Post about “Signal Gate”

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.

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- ### Executive Editor Hamilton on PRX The World re South Sudan

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.

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- ### Executive Editor wins ASIL Certificate of Merit for OUP-JS book

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.

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- ### Executive Editor Oona Hathaway nominated President-elect of ASIL

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.

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- ### Senior Fellow Tom Joscelyn interview on New Orleans attack

Without knowing the person responsible, “the first thing I thought of was there was a spate of similar attacks in 2016 and 2017″ inspired by ISIS, Joscelyn told CBC.

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- ### JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Interviewed in The Washington Post

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.

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- ### Just Security article on Guantanamo plea deals cited in Senate Judiciary Committee letter to Secretary of Defense Austin

Scott Roehm and Ian Moss’s article informed Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Senator Durbin’s letter to the Secretary of Defense calling for “judicial finality for the victims” of 9/11 and their families.

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