The process of negotiating a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity continues to move forward, perhaps remarkably given the fractured and contentious

multilateral environment. The year began at the first Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) with states establishing (though with difficulty) the leadership for that and [...]

A military judge on Wednesday threw out the last disputed confession in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay, ruling that defendant Walid bin Attash’s statements were inadmissible

at trial because federal agents failed to tell him that his earlier interrogations by the CIA could not be used against him. [...]

The first piece in this series reviewed the U.S. laws prohibiting election-related domestic deployments. To understand how these laws work in a real-life election scenario,

it is worth outlining:  [...]

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Trump yesterday said the United States would not attack Iran before the U.S. midterms, and added that the two countries were having “productive discussions.” [...]

Erwin Chemerinsky and Aziz Huq discuss the powers and authorities that state and local governments can use to fight back against authoritarianism and serve as a check against

federal overreach. [...]

Since 2020, Just Security has been at the forefront of analysis on rapid shifts in AI-enabled technologies, providing expert commentary on risks, opportunities, and proposed

governance mechanisms. The catalog below organizes our collection of articles on artificial intelligence into general categories to facilitate access to relevant [...]

In a six-week period straddling the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the 9/11 military commission has suffered a simultaneously improbable

and predictable collapse. Since Aug. 28, the presiding military judge, Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, suppressed the supposed “confessions” of three of the four alleged [...]

In the current global political moment, it seems unfashionable – to say the least – to talk about concepts like dignity in policymaking, especially the making of foreign

policy, and double that for anything involving national security. Contrary to conventional wisdom, though, Americans seem to disagree. [...]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots that offer children and teenagers companionship should be held accountable to the minimum standard of appropriate interaction expected

of minors when they engage with each other: these chatbots should not be bullies.  [...]

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U.S. Defense Department instructed U.S. Central Command several days ago to conclude preparations for resuming major combat operations in Iran, U.S. [...]