In the media

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.

In Just Security, Distinguished Scholar Michael Schmitt and Faculty Co-Director Ryan Goodman write about the International law implications of the U.S. lifting of export restrictions on Russian diesel.

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.

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.

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.

Faculty Co-Director Andrew Weissmann joins PBS and NPR’s KQED to discuss his case for stemming the effects of political deception and strengthening U.S. democratic institutions.

As the U.S. enforces a naval blockade on Iran against vessels flagged under states that are not a party to the conflict, Non-Resident Senior Fellows Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane explore the surfacing tensions between two bodies of applicable law. 

In Just Security, Distinguished Scholar Michael Schmitt and Faculty Co-Director Ryan Goodman offer an analysis of the law of armed conflict as applied to a reported Israeli campaign to kill or capture every individual involved in the October 7th massacre.

Non-Resident Camille Stewart Gloster coauthors a piece for Tech Policy Press on the changing locus of consumer decision-making: from directly navigating interfaces to delegating judgement in agent-mediated commerce.

In a New York Times op-ed, Faculty Co-Director Andrew Weissmann argues that in order to stop the Trump administration’s vindictive prosecutions, grand jury votes in favor of criminal charges must meet a higher factual standard than mere probable cause.

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