On Sept. 2, 2025 U.S. forces launched a missile strike against a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean. Forty-one minutes later, they fired again—this time at two survivors
clinging to the destroyed boat’s wreckage. The administration justifies these strikes by claiming the United States is in armed conflict with “narco-terrorists,” [...]
As others have written, the proposed 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan that became public in late November was a “hot mess.” While the plan has reportedly evolved significantly
from the initial proposal, at least one piece of the original plan is in direct violation of existing international law obligations and must not be included in any [...]
On Nov. 20, 2025 – on the 80th anniversary of the opening of the main Nuremberg Trial, which prosecuted Nazi leadership for aggression and mass atrocities of World War II
– details of the allegedly proposed new “peace” plan for Ukraine emerged. The initiative, widely perceived as an attempt to force Kyiv’s capitulation rather [...]
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AND PACIFIC OPERATIONS [...]
On 31 October 2025, the Swiss media group Ringier sold its entire Hungarian media portfolio – including the tabloid Blikk – to Indamedia, an Orbán-government-aligned group
that already controls 18 online publications and platforms, including the leading news outlet Index and the major private television channel TV2. [...]
At an Atlantic Council event yesterday, Greg Ip of the WSJ asked U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer about how he sees the "rules-based international order" in the trading
system these days: [...]
Photo: The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands – home of the International Court of Justice (Photo: Frank van Beek – Courtesy of the ICJ) On 5 November 2025, I interviewed
Judge Yuji Iwasawa, President of the International Court of Justice. It was a wide-ranging conversation in which we discussed, among other things, Iwasawa’s priorities [...]
[Julia Emtseva is assistant professor of law at HEC Paris] I had never considered myself a law and technology person. Likewise, I never imagined that open-source investigations
(OSINT) would touch me directly, beyond distant and abstract conflicts where technology was used to trace evidence of international crimes. [...]
[Pedro R. Borges de Carvalho is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven, Institute for International Law and a research fellow at ATHENE – German National Research Center for Applied
Cybersecurity] Mass atrocities often leave scars on the Earth’s surface that forensic methodologies can decrypt given the right technological capabilities. [...]
Continuing with our notices of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History, we turn now to the Surrency Prize.
About this prize: [...]
