Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Jan. 19-23, 2026)

Immigration / Law Enforcement

• The New Civil Rights “Backstop”: How DAs and AGs Can and Must Investigate ICE Abuses
  by Jonathan Wroblewski
• Emerging Evidence Provides Basis for Opening Investigation of ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
  by Julia Gegenheimer

U.S., Greenland, and NATO

• Hypothetical Legal Review of Use of the U.S. Military in Greenland
  by Daniel Maurer, Steven J. Lepper, Eugene R. Fidell, Alberto J. Mora and Franklin D. Rosenblatt
• The Insurmountable Legal Obstacles to U.S. Acquisition of Greenland
  by Michael Schmitt and Tess Bridgeman

Board of Peace

• Expert Q&A on the Charter of the Board of Peace and the Role of Congress
  by Michael Mattler

Anti-Corruption Series

• The White House’s New Fraud Section: Key Questions
  by Dani Schulkin and Amy Markopoulos

U.S. Actions Related to Venezuela

• Using an Unmarked Aircraft to Attack an Alleged Drug Boat: Is it Perfidy?
  by Michael Schmitt

Russia-Ukraine War

• The EU Discovers Emergency Powers: Russian Assets Edition
  by Elena Chachko and Katerina Linos

Symposium: International Courts and Ending Wars

• Symposium: Is There a Role for International Courts in Ending Wars?
  by Just Security
• Symposium Introduction: Is There a Role for International Courts in Ending Wars?
  by Laurie Blank and Daphné Richemond-Barak
• Judging War: The Legitimacy of International Courts in Armed Conflicts
  by Nienke Grossman

Genocide / Myanmar

• Proving Genocide: The Burden of Proof
  by Ahmad Haque

Critical Minerals Policy

• Getting Critical Minerals Certification and Due Diligence Right In the DRC-Rwanda Accord and Beyond (With a Lesson from a Punk Band?)
  by Brad Brooks-Rubin

MLK Day

• On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Let Not Arrogance Be Our Doom
  by Bishop Garrison

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (Updated)

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