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Early Edition: March 25, 2025

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The New “Blacklists” Work When Law Firms Stay Silent

In a recent internal memo, Brad Karp, the chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, defended the firm’s refusal to challenge a presidential executive order targeting…
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The Imperative of Solidarity in Response to Assaults on Legal Services, Universities, and Independent Media

"Around the globe who have had decades of experience in navigating a world where simply looking out for one’s own best interests is insufficient for individual or collective…
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What A Corrupt Police Network in the Dominican Republic Reveals About Arms Trafficking

How do arms trafficking and state corruption networks in Latin America operate, and how they can be disrupted?

Early Edition: March 24, 2025

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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Mar. 16-21)

Israel-Hamas War • Trump executive actions • Trump administration / Alien Enemies Act • International Criminal Court • Climate / Displacement • Artificial intelligence
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“In the Event of Extreme Urgency”: The International Court of Justice Must Indicate New Provisional Measures to Protect Civilians in Gaza

Authors argue the ICJ must direct Israel to halt the current course of the military campaign in Gaza before too late.
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Who Will Join Duterte at the ICC? A Plea for Realism

For the International Criminal Court, the question after Duterte’s arrest should not be whether it can now move on to confront more powerful leaders, but rather how it can become…
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Gaza and Israel’s Renewed Policy of Deprivation

Israel’s decision to cut Gaza off from essential goods violates IHL and reactivates crimes charged in the ICC’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu, writes Dannenbaum.

Early Edition: March 21, 2025

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The Courts Can Stop Abuse of the Alien Enemies Act – the Political Question Doctrine is No Bar

Many of the emergency powers a president could unlock through pretextual invocations and arbitrary proclamations are injurious to a free, fair, and democratic society. The courts…
In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, members of the Salvadoran army stand guard at the gates of the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

The Trump Administration’s Recent Removals to El Salvador Violate the Prohibition on Transfer to Torture

US and international law prohibit transferring or removing any person when there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be at risk of certain serious human…
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