Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Oct. 13-17, 2025)

U.S. Strikes / Venezuela

• Attacking Drug Cartels in the Territory of Another State
  by Michael Schmitt

Series: International Law Weekend 2025

• Crisis as Catalyst in International Law
  by Michael P. Scharf

Global Democracy

• Attacks on U.S. Legal Profession Reflect Global Slide in Countries It Once Aided
  by Jasmine D. Cameron, Fernanda G. Nicola and Natalie Landau

Artificial Intelligence

• Embedded Human Judgment in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
  by Lena Trabucco
• Governing AI Agents Globally: The Role of International Law, Norms and Accountability Mechanisms
  by Talita Dias

Domestic Deployment of U.S. Military

• When Deference is No Longer Due
  by Mary B. McCord

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (Updated)

• Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
  by Just Security

Trump Executive Actions

• The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation (Updated)
  by Ryan Goodman, Siven Watt, Audrey Balliette, Maggie Lin, Michael Pusic and Jeremy Venook

U.S. Diplomacy

• Export Controls and U.S. Trade Policy: Making Sense of the New Terrain
  by Geoffrey Gertz and Thomas Krueger
• Trading Sovereignty for Scale? The Costs of the U.S.–U.K. Tech Prosperity Deal
  by Isabella Wilkinson
• Global Fragility Act 2.0? Amid a Possible Bipartisan Revival, a Chance to Make U.S. Peace Efforts More Effective
  by Peter J. Quaranto and Kevin Melton

Espionage Act

• Weaponizing the Espionage Act: What It Means for Whistleblowers, Reporters, and Democracy
  by Brian O’Neill and David Schulz