In the Media

In the Media

“Even if [the Senate resolution against the war in Iran is] not binding as such it still has legal effect…it represents Congress’s view of the allocation of war powers and that the president doesn’t have authority to conduct this war,” Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane comments in the Wall Street Journal.

June 24th, 2026|

In the latest episode of MSNow‘s Main Justice with Mary McCord and Faculty Co-Director Andrew Weissmann, Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar Tess Bridgeman unpacks U.S. concessions in President Trump’s 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran, big remaining questions, Congress’ role, and more.

June 24th, 2026|

Faculty Co-Director Andrew Weissmann joins MS Now to discuss Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s withholding of local officials’ access to evidence from the killings of American citizens in Minnesota—and what this means in advance of Blanche’s confirmation hearing.

June 23rd, 2026|

For the Washington Post, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane comments on the reframing of the war on terror paradigm to target alleged criminal groups in Latin America.

June 23rd, 2026|

Following a Russian attack on the Ukrainian Dormition Cathedral, a site of religious and cultural heritage, Distinguished Scholar Michael Schmitt surveys various protections implicated under the law of armed conflict and international criminal law.

June 23rd, 2026|

“Government that withholds equal standing from some of its members is not merely unjust; it forfeits the allegiance, participation, and productive energy through which political authority is consolidated and extended in practice,” writes Faculty Co-Director Stephen Holmes in a Project Syndicate commentary reflecting on the Declaration of Independence 250 years on.

June 17th, 2026|

Following the U.S. attack on a Tren de Aragua leader inside Venezuela, in Just Security, RCLS’s Tess Bridgeman, Michael Schmitt, Ryan Goodman, and Brian Finucane cover applicable bodies of law, possible Venezuelan involvement, and what we know about the administration’s claimed legal basis.

June 15th, 2026|

For the Washington Post, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane outlines questions of lawfulness and proportionality raised by U.S. attacks that allegedly destroyed vital Iranian infrastructure.

June 11th, 2026|

In his #1 New York Times bestseller Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America, Faculty Co-Director Andrew Weissmann explores the problem of the nation’s systemic vulnerability to political lies and poses a path forward through reforms to the law.

June 11th, 2026|

In a “What’s Next” essay for the NYU Law Democracy Project, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Rebecca Ingber autopsies the decline of international law and the so-called “world order,” offering her take on how to rebuild a public constituency for the rule of law.

June 11th, 2026|

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