Accountability

Expert analysis and background context for recent decisions made within the Israel Defense Forces' military justice system.

The untold power of regular grand juries and special grand juries to independently conduct investigations and issue reports when federal prosecutors won't.

Tracking the use of State power requires systematically identifying linkages between individual developments and broader trends. This interactive graphic offers one method.

After the vote to remove Karim Khan, it is urgent that the ICC appoint a new Chief Prosecutor whose ethical compass is beyond reproach.

Five years after the fall of Kabul, the Taliban government still has not succeeded in achieving recognition at the United Nations.

If CEDAW fails in Afghanistan, at the very frontier of the violations it was designed to prevent, its protections risk collapsing into little more than paper promises.

This syllabus supplement offers curated articles intended to be combined with traditional casebooks in a law or higher ed classroom.

Bringing together expert analysis that traces this erosion, assesses the risks for democratic governance, and outlines pathways to rebuild or even reinvent these safeguards.

Our democratic institutions are under strain, but one thing must be true if any reform is to take hold: government must deliver, and that delivery must be felt by all people.

The term "gender apartheid" doesn't appear to increase American support for Afghan women, but information that the Taliban's treatment violates international law does.

Georgian Dream is crushing Georgia's civil society, courts, and opposition to entrench one-party rule and Russian influence; only targeted U.S. and EU sanctions can stop it.

The U.N.'s periodic review of its counterterrorism strategy again leaves human rights protections weak and its sprawling system unchecked.