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A Point of Clarification Re the International Lawyers’ Statement on Gaza
Israeli international law scholars write about their prior letter published by Just Security and a recent article published at Just Security as well.
Nov. 13, 2025
Letters to the Editor
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On the Role of State Department Career Attorneys
Ascribing indifference or, at worst, malevolent motives to career attorneys who are unable to refute such claims as they are bound by privilege is truly disappointing.
Jul. 25, 2025
Letters to the Editor
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Letter to Editor: On So-Called Selectivity and a Tribunal for Aggression Against Ukraine
Former President of the International Criminal Court argues for a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine - and against essay by former Prosecutor of the ICC…
Feb. 10, 2023
Chile Eboe-Osuji
👁 Exterior View of the new International Criminal Court building in The Hague on July 30, 2016 in The Hague The Netherlands.
Letter to the Editor: There is No Affront to U.S. Sovereignty in the Int’l Criminal Court Investigation
Editor’s Note: This piece is part of Just Security’s ongoing coverage of Executive Order 13928, “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated With the International Criminal…
Jul. 2, 2020
Gabor Rona
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Letter to the Editor: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Trump’s Ukraine Venture
The Dec. 16, 2019 Just Security essays about federal criminal offenses and President Donald Trump’s impeachment were excellent and timely, but the one about his exposure…
Dec. 19, 2019
Eugene R. Fidell
👁 U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) listens during a news conference April 21, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
The Pelosi Approach to Impeachment: Public Education, First
[Editor’s note: Just Security is publishing a series in conversation with Sidney Blumenthal’s “An Open Memo: Comparison of Clinton Impeachment, Nixon Impeachment and Trump…
May 21, 2019
John Dean
👁 International Law Commission holds special commemorative event.
Letter to the Editor – Germany’s Extradition Request for Gen. Jamil Hassan, with U.S. Support
I very much appreciate Just Security’s bringing to your readers’ attention the German extradition request to Lebanon for Syria’s General Jamil Hassan, who is under suspicion…
Mar. 13, 2019
Claus Kress
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Letter to the Editor: How About Some Regulation of the Mercenary Industry?
Following Sarah Knuckey and Ryan Goodman’s post on U.S. mercenaries in Yemen, I’d like to provide a bit of international legal background to the urgent discussion of whether…
Oct. 23, 2018
Gabor Rona
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Setting the Record Straight: The Pardon Power is Part of the Rule of Law
Writing from the perspective of a former federal prosecutor, Barbara McQuade decried President Donald Trump’s most recent exercise of the pardon power, which supposedly poses…
Jul. 20, 2018
Sam Morison
👁 A bus passes a security fence at Bagram Air Base March 2, 2009 in Bagram, Afghanistan.
Letter to the Editor: Correcting the Record on Abu Zubaydah
In her June 1 piece, “Policy and Legal Implications of European Court’s Ruling on CIA ‘Black Sites,’” Katherine Cheasty Kornman makes a serious factual error about our…
Jun. 19, 2018
Letters to the Editor
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Letter to the Editor: Why Larger Defense Budgets Don’t Need to Come at the Expense of “Soft Power”
In his recent post (“The National Security Threat of Trump’s Defense Budget”) Bishop Garrison argues that the Trump administration’s proposed increases to the defense budget…
Jun. 13, 2018
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
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Letter to the Editor: A Perilous Peace Between the Koreas
The peace initiatives involving the United States and the two Koreas are rightly welcomed given the long history of conflict and division. There are however certain unspoken realities…
Jun. 12, 2018
Mishana Hosseinioun