Accountability

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While the rule of law recession persists, the 2024 data show progress on some issues and some countries stepping back from the brink of autocracy.

Torture and inhuman treatment of detainees are war crimes. They also put medical staff in a severely compromised ethical position.

The national trial, which began 13 years after the massacre, is a rare example of domestic accountability for former senior officials.

It is not written in the cards that international law will fall apart, and that impunity will reign. Rather, peace and its parts, including respect for international law, are an…

The US and allies can build on the coordinated Magnitsky-like sanctions in his case to continue turning up the heat on repressive regimes.

Invoking an exception to the ICC's jurisdiction would not only be a regression from Ukraine's otherwise commendable engagement with international law, it would also contradict…

Unless parties are willing to come to the table, there is no pathway from war toward restoring civilian rule and a democratic transition.

Three fallacies have dominated -- and damaged-- US diplomacy in the current war and the lead-up to it.

Collective countermeasures are the effective legal mechanism for Ukraine to restore some balance vis-à-vis Russia.

Prosecutors can do more to hold al-Sheikh fully to account under the Torture Act and the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act.

Judge Aileen Cannon found that Attorney General Merrick Garland had no power to appoint Jack Smith as a special counsel, dismissing the case.