On Jan. 3, the United States captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in Operation Absolute Resolve, a mission that had been painstakingly planned and rehearsed for months.
The operation itself had been an enormous undertaking, involving over 150 aircraft, several warships stationed offshore, and an unknown number of special operations [...]
On Dec. 23, by a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court held that President Donald Trump likely lacked authority to federalize National Guard forces to protect federal property and
personnel under 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). The ruling followed Trump’s attempt to deploy federalized National Guard forces in response to protests against Immigration [...]
For the Balkinization Symposium on Ruti G. Teitel, Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice: An American Legacy of Responsibility and Reconciliation (Oxford University
Press, 2025). [...]
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AND PACIFIC OPERATIONS The Senate yesterday voted 52-47 to advance a bipartisan war powers resolution aimed at restricting President Trump’s ability to conduct [...]
When Belarusian filmmaker and activist Andrei Hnyot was detained at a Serbian border crossing in October 2023, the charges seemed routine: tax evasion. But Hnyot had fled Belarus
after participating in the 2020 protests, and the Interpol Red Notice that triggered his arrest originated from Minsk. [...]
On 12 January 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will commence the oral proceedings in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide (The Gambia v Myanmar). Over the course of three weeks, the ICJ will hear arguments concerning The Gambia’s claim (which was lodged with the Court in [...]
An art exhibition by Cypriot artist George Gavriel was cancelled last month following intense political and social reactions after its inauguration. Officials from the country’s
conservative party DISY dismissed the paintings as obscenity and rejected freedom of expression as a justification. [...]
[Mô Bleeker is a Senior Fellow at The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, and Special Advisor of the UNSG on the Responsibility to Protect
.She served as Special Envoy for Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.] The opinions shared in this [...]
[Mô Bleeker is a Senior Fellow at The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, and Special Advisor of the UNSG on the Responsibility to Protect
.She served as Special Envoy for Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.] The opinions shared in this [...]
[Maud Sarliève and Dr Pauline Martini are associate research fellows at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London] On 4 December 2025, the Office of the
Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched its groundbreaking Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage under the Rome Statute: severe environmental [...]
