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The leading association of American lawyers added its voice to the chorus of concern surrounding the proliferation of commercial spyware.

The NSO Group's efforts to curry favor and evade accountability in the United States must fail due to its role in global human rights abuses.

We urgently need a system where the developers of spyware tools are forced either to require their State customers to provide credible guarantees on future human rights compliance,…

"The United States should know that it cannot successfully pursue its security interests in the Asia-Pacific region at the expense of the basic rights of its partners’ citizens."

Determined victims and creative lawyers used a U.S, law, the Torture Victims Protection Act, to hold a powerful mayor accountable.

Section 502B(c) is a potent tool to accelerate congressional oversight of support to countries with concerning human rights records. 

What does international law say about spying? To answer that question we have Asaf Lubin, an expert on international law and espionage. 

The Biden administration can do more to develop and implement a “values-based” approach to foreign policy.

A leading transnational law scholar on why MBS is not entitled to head of state immunity, the act of state doctrine does not bar claims in a civil suit arising from Khashoggi's…

The US could still change course to salvage the relationship, advance mutual interests, and expand overlapping values.

A US court held that Colombian paramilitaries indisputably had a symbiotic relationship with the Colombian state and are therefore liable under the TVPA.

Inconsistent legal frameworks for visa restrictions have meant that some of their targets can be publicly identified, while others cannot. Congress has an opportunity to close…