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The Missing Moral Conscience of U.S. Foreign Policy: Where is the State Department’s Legal Adviser? [Updated]

Later today, the Senate will hold confirmation hearings for Caroline Diane Krass to serve as the CIA’s General Counsel, a position that just recently became vacant. Not letting…
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Key Issues in the New Senate Bill to Require White House Drone Strike Casualty Reports

  This week, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014.  The legislation contains an important section which would…
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Humanitarian Intervention and Global Legal Norms

Thank you to Harold Koh for spurring (here and here) a discussion about some of the most important issues of our time—on matters concerning wars of choice and building an effective…
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Maj. Kurt M. Sanger, Letter to the Editor: Response to Harold Koh’s Just Security post of Oct 2, 2013

While considering Harold Koh’s interpretation of the UN Charter and its justifications for the use of force against Syria, try standing in the shoes of foreign ministers in China…
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Harold Koh’s Case for Humanitarian Intervention

The week before last, Harold Koh posted a defense of President Obama’s authority to use force in Syria without congressional authorization. Last week Professor Koh turned to…
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Syria and the Law of Humanitarian Intervention (Part I: Political Miscues and U.S. Law)

Crises are lived forward but understood backwards.  While it is still too early to know how the Syria crisis of 2013 will end, we can start evaluating what precedents of law and…
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