Community Spotlight

Executive Editor Matiangai Sirleaf was interviewed by Jeffrey Smith about the UN General Assembly’s condemnation of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement as crimes against humanity.

The World’s Shirin Jaafari interviewed Just Security Executive Editor Rebecca Hamilton and Board of Editors Member Tom Dannenbaum about U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s call for “dismantling” the International Criminal Court.

Just Security Co-Editor-in-Chief Tess Bridgeman discusses the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a war powers resolution aimed at halting further military action against Iran without congressional authorization.  .

Out now from Oxford University Press: The International Law of Non-International Armed Conflict, authored by Ezequiel Heffes and JS Editorial Board member Nathalie Weizmann. Drawing on the authors’ expertise it combines theoretical analysis with ongoing practical applications.

Co-editors in chief Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman and Editorial Board Member Mary McCord are the three speakers for an event at New York Historical on “Power Without Impunity: War Crimes and Illegal Orders,” May 11, 2026.

Just Security Editor Eliav Lieblich and contributing author Rachel VanLandingham joined the Brian Lehrer show on NPR-affiliate WNYC to discuss their articles on reprisals and war crimes rhetoric, as well as the greater international law implications of the U.S.-Iran War.

Congratulations to JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, appointed by Irish President Catherine Connolly to serve as a member of the Council of State of Ireland.

JS Executive Editor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was appointed to serve as a member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.

The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner interviewed JS Executive Editor Oona Hathaway on the legal questions surrounding the arrest of Nicolas Maduro and U.S. operations in Venezuela.  

Tess Bridgeman spoke to The New Yorker’s Ruth Marcus about the Trump administration’s justification of murder in its lethal campaign against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and East Pacific. 

Tess Bridgeman discusses the legality of orders to kill shipwrecked survivors of a U.S. targeted  vessel in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.

Congratulations to JS Editor Eliav Lieblich, recipient of the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law, awarded for outstanding contributions to the study of international law and substantial, innovative and cutting-edge research.