Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Mar. 14-20, 2026)

U.S.-Israel-Iran War

• Expert Q&A on Key Law of Naval Warfare Issues in the Conflict with Iran
  by Michael Schmitt and Rob McLaughlin
• Legal and Operational Issues in the Strait of Hormuz: Transit Passage Under Fire
  by Mark Nevitt
• Hypothetical Legal Advice to SecDef Hegseth on “No Quarter” Statement (from Office of General Counsel)
  by Daniel Maurer
• The Entrenchment of Iran’s Security State 
  by Jesse Ramsdell
• An Unserious Justification for an Unnecessary War: Assessing the U.S. “Article 51” Letter to U.N. on Iran War
  by Brian Finucane
• Fighting an Illegal War and Fighting a War Illegally: the Link between Regime Change Operations and International Humanitarian Law Violations
  by Gabor Rona

U.S. Lethal Strikes / Drug Trafficking

• The Shield of the Americas Is the Trump Corollary’s Military Edge
  by Orlando J. Pérez

Abu Ghraib

• Fourth Circuit Affirms $42 Million Jury Verdict in Abu Ghraib Case
  by William S. Dodge

Diplomacy

• If the U.S. Wants Durable Peace, It Must Protect the Institutions That Build It
  by Ambassador George Moose

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

• Firearms Trafficking Comes to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Recent Advisory Opinion
  by Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga

Gender and Security

• In the Race for U.N. Secretary-General, Might a Woman Finally Lead?
  by Susana Malcorra and Nudhara Yusuf
• Why Gender-Blind Conflict Analysis Puts Us All at Risk
  by Ambassador Melanne Verveer and Jessica Anania

Emerging Technologies

• When AI Runs the Operations: Autonomous Agents and the Future of Cyber Competition
  by Jam Kraprayoon and Shaun Ee
• The Trump Administration Has a Cyber Strategy. Does It Have a Plan?
  by Teddy Nemeroff and Brianna Rosen
• Interface Design as a Condition of Remedy in Meta’s Platform Governance
  by Tanmay Durani

Immigration

• America Is Turning Away People Fleeing for Their Lives — and Breaking the Law to Do It
  by Scott Busby, Mary Giovagnoli, Harold Hongju Koh and Michael Posner

Trump Executive Actions

• Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (Updated)
  by Just Security
• The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation (4th edition)
  by Ryan Goodman, Siven Watt, Audrey Balliette, Margaret Lin, Michael Pusic and Jeremy Venook

Armenia

• Facing Russian Hybrid Threats in Advance of Elections, Armenia Struggles to Maintain Pro-U.S. and EU Path
  by Laura Thornton