Somewhere in the basement of American constitutional law sits a forgotten clause that the Framers considered indispensable, Alexander Hamilton defended at length in The Federalist
Papers, and virtually every constitutional law professor has stopped teaching. Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 — the “Armies Clause” or “Two-Year Clause” [...]
African countries are building their AI governance frameworks at remarkable speed. Zimbabwe launched its National AI Strategy on March 14. Ghana’s National AI strategy received
cabinet approval in February. Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda have all adopted strategies over the past three years. [...]
The fall of Bashar Al-Assad on Dec. 8, 2024 is perhaps the most consequential moment in Syria’s modern history. After decades of repression, Syrians earned a long-awaited
and rare opportunity to reckon with one another and build their nation. Days after Assad’s fall, Rebecca Hamilton and I advocated for an incremental, locally-led [...]
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President Donald Trump announced a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. It went into effect at midnight in Lebanon and prompted thousands of displaced Lebanese [...]
“We left because there was no food and because the dam [the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces] came to loot and beat us,” Aida, a 30-something mother of eight, told me
earlier this month, days after she arrived at a refugee camp in South Sudan from Kadugli, the capital of Southern Kordofan state in Sudan. [...]
In an unprecedented decision, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances in March found there were sufficient grounds to believe “that enforced disappearance
is being practiced on a widespread or systematic basis” in Mexico and, pursuant to Article 34 of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons [...]
On April 2nd, over 100 U.S.-based international law experts published a Letter expressing “profound concern about serious violations of international law” in the present
armed conflict in the Middle East. Section 2 of the Letter asserts that U.S. forces likely violated the law of armed conflict (LOAC) and potentially committed war [...]
Hungary’s April 12 parliamentary election brought a major political shift. After 16 years in power, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party lost to opposition leader
Peter Magyar, whose coalition now holds a strong parliamentary majority. The result marks a new chapter in Hungary’s politics after years of debate about democratic [...]
This article is cross-posted with the Transnational Litigation Blog. On April 28, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Cisco Systems v. Doe I et al. (Cisco), which asks whether
a private U.S. company can ever be sued under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS)—and its CEO sued under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA)(1992)—for aiding and [...]
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NEGOTIATIONS [...]
