In its attempts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, Israel has employed a measure that has not been used by any other democratic country. Since mid-March, the Israeli
government has sought the assistance of the General Security Service (also known as the Israeli Security Agency, the ISA, the Shabak or Shin Bet) in conducting epidemiological [...]
Jack Goldsmith spoke with David Shimer, the author of "Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference." They discussed United States and Soviet interference
in elections during the Cold War, how and why the U.S. attitude toward foreign electoral interference changed after the Cold War, and whether and to what degree the [...]
Position: Westerfield Fellow, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law; start date: August 2020 Description: This position is designed for individuals pursuing a career
in law teaching and seeking to gain law teaching experience, while being afforded time to devote... [...]
China Enacts Hong Kong Security Law, While Exchanging Sanctions With the United States On June 29, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) passed new national security
legislation applicable to Hong Kong. The new security law uses sweeping provisions to criminalize secession, terrorism, collusion with foreign powers and subversion [...]
Newly released footage from a Florida police department shows officers laughing after firing rubber bullets into a crowd of protestors, according to the Hill. The video, which
was recorded from an officer’s body camera at a May 31st Black Lives Matter rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, depicts officers celebrating with profanities after [...]
If you strain your memory very hard, you might recall a man named Robert Mueller. Only a short year ago, the special counsel was the man of the hour. Now, in the middle of
a pandemic, a protest movement over police violence, and a presidential campaign, the urgency of Mueller’s findings has—understandably—faded. [...]
Here is the Summer 2020 Supplement for Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2020). The Supplement covers, among other things, the
Supreme Court’s disallowance of a damages suit against a U.S. official for a cross-border shooting in Hernandez v. [...]
On June 25, the Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated holding in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, rejecting Suspension Clause and due process challenges
to restrictions on the ability of asylum-seekers to obtain review of expedited administrative removal proceedings. [...]
On June 25, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, an asylum-seeker, does not have a constitutional right to habeas corpus review in federal court of his
claims that the government violated his constitutional, statutory and regulatory rights in issuing an order for his expedited removal. [...]
It is widely recognized that the terrorist group commonly referred to as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is responsible for crimes shocking in their scale and brutality.
Even so, there has been a now years-long international debate concerning accountability for those crimes, which has focused largely on determining the appropriate [...]
