Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (December 17-21)

Russia Investigation

Supervision of the Mueller investigation

• Marty Lederman, A First Take on Bill Barr’s Memo on Presidential Authority and the Mueller Investigation
• Marty Lederman, What’s Noticeably Missing from the Whitaker Nonrecusal Explanation

Flynn sentencing hearing

• Ryan Goodman, Flynn’s Work as Turkey’s Agent While a Transition Official: Judge Sullivan Was at Least Half Right
• Liam Brennan, Analysis of the Michael Flynn Sentencing Hearing Drama

General

• Barbara McQuade, Not Mere “Process Crimes,” False Statements Prosecutions Are Serious
• Joshua Geltzer, The Most Extraordinary Lesson of Two New Reports on Russian Disinformation: What They Reveal About White House Paralysis
• Anne Tindall, Mueller’s Investigation May Be Coming to an End, But Congress Is Just Getting Started
• Just Security, Unsealed Documents in Special Counsel Mueller’s Investigation [Updated]

Campaign Hush Money Investigations

• Brian Galle, Trump’s Bookkeeper: How Prosecutors Could Easily Prove Tax Crimes for Hush Money Reimbursements

Syria Withdrawal

• Brian P. McKeon, False Comparisons: Obama’s Military Withdrawal from Iraq and Trump’s Syria Disengagement

Civilian Casualties and Transparency

• Jessica Purkiss and Abigail Fielding-Smith, U.S. Air Strike Data from Afghanistan Takes Step Back in Transparency

Jamal Khashoggi

• Joshua Geltzer, A False Choice on Saudi Arabia: Sanctioning Riyadh’s Military-Intelligence Sectors is a Workable Option

Khmer Rouge Trials

• Andrew Boyle, Dueling Decisions at the Khmer Rouge Trials Could Mean a Suspect Avoids Justice

Breakdown of Democracy in Hungary

• Melissa Hooper, Protesters in Hungary Call Out Labor Rights – and Rule of Law

European Human Rights Convention and Extraterritorial Obligations in Counterterrorism

• Antonios Tzanakopoulos, The “ISIS Beatles” and “Non-Territorial” Application of the of the European Convention of Human Rights

Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights

• Kendyl Salcito, The Self-Defeating Absence of the U.S. at the U.N. Business and Human Rights Forum

Holiday Reading List

• Just Security, The 2018 Just Security Holiday Reading List

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