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Adding to their study featured on 60 Minutes last fall, Faculty Co-Director Ryan Goodman and a team at Just Security provide updated data from Trump Administration litigation demonstrating that the “presumption of regularity” doctrine is facing increasing pressure in the courts.

March 19th, 2026|

In his latest op-ed for Project Syndicate, Faculty Co-Director Stephen Holmes examines the underlying costs of President Trump’s approach to war in Iran: “[it] is the opposite of deterrence: high-visibility expenditure today that erodes the credibility of deterrence tomorrow.”

March 18th, 2026|

At a panel before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane discussed legal issues under U.S. domestic law in the Trump administration’s lethal boat strikes campaign, reports the New York Times.

March 16th, 2026|

Non-Resident Senior Fellow Michael Hanna sits down with NPR to unpack how destabilization of the Iranian regime—resulting from the war between Iran, Israel, and the U.S.—could change regional dynamics.

March 12th, 2026|

In a New York Times op-ed, Non-Resident Journalism Fellow Kate Brannen tallies and weighs the hard-dollar costs of the U.S. war in Iran and previous military campaigns by the second Trump administration.

March 10th, 2026|

In light of Secretary of Defense Hegseth’s comments regarding “no quarter” in the war on Iran, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane pens an op-ed for MS Now on the implications of denial of quarter under U.S. and international law.

March 5th, 2026|

Non-Resident Senior Fellow Bec Ingber joins the Strict Scrutiny podcast to discuss the legality of recent U.S. military actions.

March 5th, 2026|

For Project Syndicate, Faculty Director Stephen Holmes warns that the Trump administration’s war partners have ambitions that could fragment a successor state in Iran. 

March 4th, 2026|

Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane breaks down the implications of an unusual War Powers Resolution report from the President to Congress and what it may suggest about recent U.S. partnered military operations in Ecuador.

March 4th, 2026|

In Project Syndicate, Stephen Holmes argues that the power vacuum created by attacking the Iranian regime may pose an even more dangerous threat, and one which the United States underestimates.

March 3rd, 2026|