During the 1960s, the author spent four years studying international law at Princeton. At that time, the intellectual influence of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein was palpable on campus. Much of the earliest conceptual thought about nuclear weapons and nuclear war originated at Princeton. Here, Professor Beres examines what we can learn from these [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday issued a formal legal opinion declaring the approach of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforcement of “disparate impact” liability to be unlawful. The theory of disparate impact liability originated in the 1971 Supreme Court decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Co., in which it was [...]

Plaintiffs in Japan are seeking a clear ruling on whether the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Delivering signatures to the Supreme Court on Monday, plaintiffs called for an unambiguous decision in favor of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Japan is currently the only G7 country where same-sex marriage is illegal. The case before [...]

The EU on Tuesday proposed an entry ban for Russian soldiers. The plan would bar all those who have served in the Russian military, including non-Russian citizens, since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 from receiving visas for the Schengen Area. The EU had already implemented sanctions against Russia after the annexation of Crimea in [...]

Kenyan authorities dispersed a protest against a national park construction project in the country on Monday. The authorities arrested 10 peaceful protesters, including Kenya’s former Chief Justice David Maraga. Leading the United Green Movement Party, Maraga organized a protest on Monday against building a 1,300-capacity car park in Nairobi National Park. According to Maraga, they [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday that the US entered into bilateral agreements with at least seven African countries to provide healthcare resources in exchange for access to surveillance data and pathogen specimens. The Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with several African governments were signed in 2025 as part of the so-called “America First” Global [...]

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and Policing-Free Schools Canada sent a joint letter to the British Columbia Minister of Education and Child Care, Minister or Public Safety and Solicitor General, calling for an end all police-in-school programming in the province.  According to BCCLA policy director Meghan McDermott: Police presence in schools is counter-productive [...]

The upper house of the Canadian parliament passed Bill S-228 on Monday to amend the Criminal Code (the Code) to explicitly criminalize forced and coerced sterilization. Specifically, the bill amends § 268(1) of the Code and prohibits the performance of a sterilization procedure without a patient’s voluntary consent as an act that wounds or maims [...]

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution grants citizenship to nearly all children born in the United States, regardless of whether their parents are citizens, permanent residents, unauthorized migrants, or transient visitors. Limited exceptions exist, such as children born to accredited foreign diplomats, who are not subject to US jurisdiction. This [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations sent a joint letter to the EU Monday raising concerns over Egypt’s lack of progress on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. As part of the elevation of the EU-Egypt relationship to a Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership in [...]