Rule of Law

We asked experts with deep personal and professional ties to the post-9/11 era: how did 9/11 shape your path, and how does it continue to shape us 25 years later?

Ryan Goodman and Tess Bridgeman are joined by Daniel Fried and Nicholas Rasmussen to discuss the enduring impact of 9/11 on U.S. counterterrorism and foreign policy.

A historian examines the United States' historical memory of 9/11 twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Gubernatorial opposition is a powerful and often necessary component of meaningful state pushback against federal overreach.

Thousands mourned Ratko Mladić at his funeral in Belgrade despite his responsibility for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

A series exploring the powers and authorities state and local governments have to check federal overreach and protect democratic norms and individual rights.

Unpacking the Office of Legal Counsel opinion concluding that executive privilege may apply to presidential communications with private advisers.

States committed to the rule of law can use the International Criminal Court to maximize the cost of adversaries' military aggression.

Experts argue that Germany should open a structural investigation into Iran's December 2025 and January 2026 crackdown on protesters.

Current and former Presidents of the ICC's Assembly of States Parties on the role of the Court in upholding the international legal order.

A former member of the George W. Bush administration’s National Security Council reflects on what the United States got right and wrong in its response to the 9/11 attacks.

Host Ryan Goodman is joined by an expert panel to discuss whether the United States has violated the law of armed conflict in its war against Iran.