Faculty Commentary

President Trump said during an Oval Office meeting April 14 that it would be up to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to decide whether mistakenly deported man Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia would be allowed back to the United States. President Bukele responded by stating that he did not “have the power to return him” and [...]

“The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.”—Paul Krugman Introduction The Council of Europe’s establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine represents a significant development in the international justice landscape. As nations grapple with the [...]

“Credo quia absurdum”—”I believe because it is absurd.”—Tertullian, early Christian theologian It’s conspicuous. Despite impressive technological advances, the United States remains a proud bastion of anti-reason. Though approval numbers trend downward, President Donald J. Trump remains widely-admired for “courage,” “caring” and “common sense.” In some quarters, Trump is seriously considered a divine rescuer, a deliverer [...]

As Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, former CJI, aptly stated: ‘Confidence in the judicial process is predicated on the trust which its written word generates.’ On March 14, a fire erupted in the residential bungalow of Delhi High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma. After extinguishing the flames, authorities allegedly discovered a significant sum of unaccounted for cash [...]

Part one of the series can be found here. Let us come up the rough side of the mountain. After writing “Embracing the Repression,” I was asked about how to make courage contagious. After mulling this over for some time, I have concluded that I do not know for certain. That said, courage has a [...]

Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated following terrorist attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 28 civilians. India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring these attacks, threatening several countermeasures. India has suspended the Indus Water Treaty, and in response, Pakistan has closed its airspace to Indian international flights. It is feared that India might strike Pakistan with [...]

As Syria undergoes a precarious government transition under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, now is a critical moment to hold members of the former regime accountable for widespread human rights violations. One effective approach would be to establish a Special Domestic Criminal Court to prosecute individuals responsible for crimes committed [...]

On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard a challenge brought by parents arguing that a Maryland School Board violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause by not allowing children to opt out of exposure to books that portray gay, lesbian and trans folks as worthy of dignity and equality. There are numerous complex legal doctrines [...]

“Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind…Usually, they have wreaked havoc.” – Sigmund Freud, Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study US President Donald Trump’s policies are not just matters of domestic law, but also international law in that the Trump administration’s harmful [...]

Part two of the series can be found here. When I read CNN’s piece about  a pro-Israel group sharing with the Trump administration a Palestine activist “deportation” list, I immediately thought of Edwin Black’s foreword in IBM and the Holocaust, in which he questioned where the Nazis got their lists in the first place. That [...]