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The United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region (UNAMID) hands over its sector headquarters to the Sudanese government in Khor Abachi, some 120 kilometres north of Nyala capital of South Darfur State, on February 15, 2021. The photo shows two soldiers outdoors at the headquarters facing each other, with one holding a folded flag. UNAMID ended its 13 years of operations in Darfur on December 31 and started a phased withdrawal of its 8,000 or so armed and civilian personnel over six months. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

From Darfur to Darfur: The Fall and Rise of Indifference to Mass Atrocities in Africa

This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.

The Discomforts of Politics: What Future for Atrocity Prevention?

Reinvigorating the atrocity prevention agenda requires focusing on accountability.
Smoke rising during Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip

Unpacking Key Assumptions Underlying Legal Analyses of the 2023 Hamas-Israel War

"Conversations of this nature are useless if their participants fail to acknowledge their differences of opinion about underlying assumptions."
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Law and Survival in Israel and Palestine

International law is critical to survival in Israel and Palestine.
Ukrainian servicemen walk near a village

Поступки щодо територій, правопорядку та світового миру: доля міжнародного права спочиває на кордонах України

Будь-які форми територіальних поступок за нинішніх умов були б юридично недійсними та суперечили…
Ukrainian servicemen walk near a village

Compromises on Territory, Legal Order, and World Peace: The Fate of International Law Lies on Ukraine’s Borders

Any form of territorial concessions in the present environment would be legally void and contrary to duties imposed on states.
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Analyzing Previously Undisclosed Use of Force Reports: Challenges of Congressional Oversight of the War on Terror

The executive branch, through noncompliance and defiance, has delayed providing Congress with sufficient information on the war on terror.
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How the Expansion of “Self-Defense” Has Undermined Constraints on the Use of Force

Legal Scholar Oona Hathaway examines how expansive U.S. interpretations of "self-defense" have shaped international law.
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Finally Ending America’s Forever War, Part II: Prescription

Leading legal scholar Harold Hongju Koh presents a long-term strategy for ending the "war on terror."
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Finally Ending America’s Forever War, Part I: Diagnosis

On the 22nd anniversary of 9/11, leading legal scholar Harold Hongju Koh offers a grim diagnosis of how we got here and the challenges ahead.
STRAIT OF HORMUZ (Aug. 6, 2023) An L3 Harris Arabian Fox MAST-13 unmanned surface vessel, front, the U.S. Coast Guard fast response cutter USCGC Charles Moulthrope (WPC 1141), the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE 6) and the guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) transit the Strait of Hormuz, Aug. 6, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo)

Renewed Tensions in the Persian Gulf: Further War Powers Lessons from the Tanker War

The possibility of unilateral use of force spiraling into conflict in the Middle East should generate a sense of urgency on Capitol Hill for tackling war powers reform.
An aerial image shows migrants waiting along the border wall to surrender to Border Patrol agents for immigration and asylum claim processing

DeSantis Campaign’s Border Proposal Raises Separation of Powers Concerns

Florida governor and U.S. presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has proposed action that would flout constitutional and statutory limits.
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