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The United States military continues to carry out illegal strikes on civilian boats allegedly engaged in drug trafficking . The case that th...

The big diplomatic news of the week is the rush of longtime Israel-supporting countries -- Canada,  France, Australia, and the UK among them...

Hypothetical question: Suppose a U.S. citizen kills the citizen of another country on the high seas. Suppose further that the American judic...

The other day I was enmeshed in a Facebook thread, as one does, where a colleague was complaining about a post that equally condemned the Ca...

When I teach the Steel Seizure Case , the Supreme Court's seminal decision on domestic executive power during wartime, I tell my student...

Just the other day, I was rejoicing at the news that one of the hostages -- Qaid Farhan Al-Qaid -- had been redeemed from Hamas captivity . ...

I'm in the throes of grading and I'm traveling for most of the period from now through New Year's. But I did want to quickly (fo...

In the wake of October 7, one development in public discourse that I do think genuinely shocked a large portion of the Jewish and Israeli co...

We are still processing the fallout of the past week's brutal assault by Hamas on southern Israel , a vicious attack whose only tactical...

Earlier this week, Shireen Abu Aqleh, a highly respected Palestinian journalist, was killed during an Israeli raid in the West Bank . Eyewit...

Russia's war against Ukraine has begun in full force. So far, the Ukrainian government and people have done a remarkable job in slowing ...

I've arrived in Chicago ! I wouldn't characterize myself as "new in town", since I've already lived in Chicago (indeed...

The UNHRC has released the results of its investigation into alleged human rights violations that occurred during the "Great March of ...

International Law Professor Yuval Shany has an outstanding post working through the legal use-of-force issues surrounding the Gaza protests ...

At least 16 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during mass demonstrations on the Gaza border . Israeli government officials bla...

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom provoked outrage in Israel when she alleged that the nation was engaging in "extrajudicial e...

Holy schmoly, Todd Kincannon (former executive director of the South Carolina GOP) wants to execute anyone who's ever been in contact wi...