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July 4th and Just Security
Just Security is on an abbreviated schedule today in honor of the July 4th holiday. If any major, time-sensitive developments occur, we will address them. Image: Demonstrator…
Protecting Civilians in Cyberspace: Ideas for the Road Ahead
Distinctions between offline and online conflicts are blurring as tools and tactics deployed in cyberspace trigger real world consequences. In Mexico, for example, commercial spyware…
The Travel Ban: Part of a Broad National Security Exceptionalism in U.S. Law
As various scholars have noted, the Supreme Court’s Trump v. Hawaii decision last week to uphold a law that many experts call “the Muslim Ban” is shocking in its analysis.…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (June 25-29)
Family Detention, Family Separation, Zero Tolerance Deborah Pearlstein, Child Separation in the Courts Travel Ban John Reed, Just Security Podcast: Harold Koh and Cristina Rodríguez…
In Trump Era, a Need to Revive Ideals of Jefferson’s Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,…
Carpenter‘s Curiosities (and its Potential to Unsettle Longstanding Fourth Amendment Doctrines)
It’s only peripherally related to national security issues, but I thought some readers who are too overwhelmed or depressed to keep reading about Hawaii v. Trump might be…
A Belief Shattered: The International Criminal Court’s Bemba Acquittal
BANGUI – On June 8, the appeals chamber at the International Criminal Court acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity of murder,…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (June 16-22)
Family Detention, Family Separation, Zero Tolerance Meg Satterthwaite and Rebecca Riddell, “Zero Tolerance” and the Detention of Children: Torture under International…
The Government Has Yet to Produce Evidence Showing the Travel Ban is About National Security
The very first thing that Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the court at oral argument in Hawaii v. Trump was: “After a worldwide multi-agency review, the President’s acting…
Letter to the Editor: Correcting the Record on Abu Zubaydah
In her June 1 piece, “Policy and Legal Implications of European Court’s Ruling on CIA ‘Black Sites,’” Katherine Cheasty Kornman makes a serious factual error about our…
In Saudi Arabia, Countering Terrorism Becomes Chimera for Rights Abuses
Saudi Arabia’s drive to counter terrorism has become a convenient chimera to support crackdowns on legitimate public dissent and political or social activism of any kind, and…
Just Security Podcast: Former FBI Agent Asha Rangappa on Inspector General’s Report on FBI Actions in 2016
On Friday, John Reed spoke with Yale University senior lecturer and former FBI Agent, Asha Rangappa about the Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s actions in the…