The United States committed two acts of aggression in 2026—first against Venezuela, then against Iran—and no amount of political spin, strategic framing, or patriotic rhetoric changes that fact. If the world is willing to call Russia an aggressor state, it must be willing to say the same about the United States. In January and March [...]

Lately, I have been asking myself: at what point do citizens start to doubt not just individual rulings, but the competency and consistency of a court itself? Pursuant to Article 125(3) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, “The judicial power of Ghana shall be vested in the judiciary; accordingly, neither the President nor Parliament nor [...]

On July 7, the UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus Resolution 62/18, recognizing forced pregnancy as a form of reproductive violence. It was the first time a UN-negotiated document named reproductive violence as a distinct form of sexual and gender-based violence, covering forced or denied contraception, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, and forced sterilization, including [...]

Canada is deporting people at a record pace, and the political story being used to justify that pace does not hold up. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the federal agency that enforces immigration law and carries out deportations, removed 23,160 people in 2025, the highest number in a single year in Canadian history, and [...]

The black flag—history’s stark symbol of no quarter—is rising again on the battlefields of the 21st century. It is not raised openly, as in the age of pirates or medieval siege warfare. Instead, it appears in battlefield orders, intercepted communications, and the grim aftermath of combat where surrendering soldiers and unarmed civilians are found executed. [...]

I was born into a family where law was not merely a profession; it was the ordinary language of everyday life. Around our dinner table, conversations rarely drifted far from litigation. Someone was always recounting a difficult case, a stubborn judge, an ingenious defense, an unexpected verdict, or a client whose fate had become inseparable [...]

On Tuesday, August 11, after 22 years without an execution in Lebanon, the country’s parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, making it the first Arab country to formally scrap capital punishment. The new law replaces death sentences with life imprisonment with hard labor. And what was the only party on record in that country to [...]

Law does not exist only in statutes, regulations, and court decisions. Before law reaches courts, it already exists in society through the decisions people make every day. Legal scholars have long recognized this social dimension of law. Law is not experienced only through courts and legal institutions; it is also shaped by how ordinary people [...]

I remember that when I was a child, a platform had been built on a barren piece of land for executions. On nights when fog passed beside it, I would look at it with fear. I was afraid of it, yet I stared at it from a distance until we had passed it. Sometimes I [...]

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth began publicly referring to himself as the Secretary of War and ordered Pentagon signage to reflect the historic title, many Americans assumed the United States had officially resurrected the pre‑1947 War Department. The imagery was striking: new placards at Pentagon entrances, press releases bearing the “Department of War” masthead, and [...]