Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes Over 100 international law experts sign letter on Iran War, UN Charter, and international humanitarian law.

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‘Facts matter’ - Harvard Law School Former U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith discussed his Harvard years, and his long career as a prosecutor, and his belief in the rule of law.

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What a Proper Investigation of Alex Pretti's Killing Would Look Like Former prosecutor in Criminal Section of DOJ Civil Rights analyzes evidence and need for proper investigation of Alex Pretti's killing.

With the tardy decision to open a civil rights investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti, former civil rights prosecutor Julia Gegenheimer tells what the investigation should look like. What has been lost investigatively by waiting so long. www.justsecurity.org/129654/inves...

What a Proper Investigation of Alex Pretti's Killing Would Look Like Former prosecutor in Criminal Section of DOJ Civil Rights analyzes evidence and need for proper investigation of Alex Pretti's killing.

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins - The Source - 1/23 - Julia Gegenheimer Powered by SnapStream Cloud Sharing

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Opening an Investigation of ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good Analysis by a veteran of the Criminal Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division of the basis for investigation of ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

Emerging Evidence Provides Basis for Opening Investigation of ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good at www.justsecurity.org/129439/inves...

The New Civil Rights “Backstop”: How DAs and AGs Can and Must Investigate ICE Abuses Mapping the new role for state law enforcement authorities in prosecuting criminal violations of Americans' civil rights.

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What to expect in the criminal prosecution of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro NPR's Leila Fadel asks former international and federal prosecutor Alex Whiting what legal arguments can be expected in the prosecution of Nicolas Maduro.

What to expect in the criminal prosecution of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

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Nine Stories That Deserved More Attention in 2025 What stories or topics merited more attention in 2025, and which might inform law and policy conversations in 2026?

Includes my shout out to the International Criminal Court www.justsecurity.org/127747/nine-...

Killing Shipwrecked Survivors is Not Just Illegal—It Endangers U.S. Servicemembers If the United States chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice.

Must read by @marknevitt.bsky.social on why killing survivors at sea is a moral & strategic disaster for all of us:

"If America chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice."

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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Trump Targets Domestic Terrorism, James Comey Indicted YouTube video by Harvard Ash Center

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It’s been three months since Jim Goldston published this and still no decision at the ICC. That is incredible, and terrible for the court, particularly at a time when it is under attack from so many quarters. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Raising the Cost of U.S. Coercion Against the ICC Previous administrations reinterpreted, evaded, or selectively engaged with international law. Trump is delegitimizing and dismantling it.

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Rethinking ICC Reform Ahead of the Special Session States should use this session to reinforce the ICC’s foundations and ensure it can credibly discharge its existing mandate.

This analysis is spot on. www.justsecurity.org/116359/rethi... Rethinking ICC Reform Ahead of the Special Session

US sanctions have upended work at the ICC - The World from PRX After the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu back in November, the Trump administration announced sanctions against the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, and its officials, employ...

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Will Putin or Netanyahu ever face the International Criminal Court? The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, but is the court working as it should be?

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Who Will Join Duterte at the ICC? A Plea for Realism A critique of the International Criminal Court’s policy of focusing predominantly on leadership cases, arguing that, in practice, this leads to impunity for all.

After former Philippine President Rodrigo #Duterte’s arrest, Ward Ferdinandusse writes, the #InternationalCriminalCourt should focus not on more leadership cases, “but rather how it can become more effective and have more trials.”

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Why the ICC Should Respect Immunities of Heads of Third States An analysis concluding that the International Criminal Court’s denial of immunity to heads of State of non-State parties violates international law.

The #InternationalCriminalCourt’s denial of immunity to sitting heads of State of non-State parties runs counter to international law, writes Ward Ferdinandusse.

“The ICC’s treatment of immunities gives short shrift to their importance for global stability.”

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