My essay, out today on Opinio Juris, showing that targeting without taking adequate precautions to assure that the target is a military objective - in the case of the Minab school bombing, due to over-reliance on AI - is a war crime under US law. opiniojuris.org/2026/03/30/t...

Scholar's Circle radio interview, where Jennifer Trahan and I discuss the illegality of both the entry into, and the conduct of, the Iran war. scholarscircle.org

Here I argue that illegal wars, like those for regime change, usually beget war crimes for which civilians always pay the price. www.justsecurity.org/134514/fight...

It's pretty simple. Israel and the U.S. invade Iran unlawfully. Iran responds lawfully to defend itself. We've succeeded in turning Iran from villain to victim.

How I miss the Insightful Empathetic Inclusive Principled Ethical Transparent Articulate and Humanistic leadership of George Bush.

What is Trump's Board of Peace doing about Trump's aggression against Iran?

You might be interested in this American Branch of the International Law Association webinar I hosted with four of the world's most expert experts on the future of the international law of armed conflict www.ila-americanbranch.org/webinars/

The big story isn't even that the Trump administration is subjecting us to a reign of terror. It's that the rest of our state and federal governments are either unwilling or unable to do anything about it. No more debating "are we in a constitutional crisis?" www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...

Trump administration's National Security Strategy dumps international law in favor of imperialism and white supremacy. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Honored to have been invited to participate in this Scholar's Circle radio program on the legality of US attacks on Venezuela: scholarscircle.org/scholars-cir...

Governors/local authorities need to go on offense now that DoJ is criminally investigating them. Why is no one talking about arresting ICE/CBP agents who break into houses without warrants, detain people because of their accents or skin color, and assault peaceful protestors? youtu.be/a1mw_A_roWA

NATO was designed to stop Russian aggression, but now it appears the threat to the alliance is "coming from inside the house." www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/t...

DHS says she was a part of a violent protest, attempting to kill a federal agent. Kinda like how according to Trumpian doctrine, the 1/6 videos show a peaceful protest - a day of love - at the US Capitol. cnn.com/2026/01/07/us/video/ice-shooting-minneapolis-digvid

While dripping with incoherence, hypocrisy, and pedantic empty calories, there is one throughline in the Trump administration's National Security Strategy: white nationalist supremacy. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Would have been unthinkable before it happened-just one of a thousand bits of evidence that the architecture of what America has long thought of itself is rapidly imploding.  www.justsecurity.org/126649/does-...

My letter in the NY Times, clarifying that the drug boat attacks are not war crimes, but they are murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

No, it's not a war crime because it's not a war. It's murder for Hegseth and whoever followed his orders that there be no survivors. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is how atrocities start in bureaucratic states. With lists. First, name all your Jews so we can investigate antisemitism. Next Muslims? Trans? "Radicals" who remind the military that they must disobey unlawful orders? www.thedp.com/article/2025...

The beauty of the sandwich guy's acquittal is not that he's not guilty of assault. It's that he's guilty and was acquitted anyway. When the jury knows you're guilty but ignores the judge's instructions to make a point it's called jury nullification - a rare thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Secret facts? Ok, but we're pretty far down the fascist rabbit hole once no one any longer blinks at secret law: "Pressed by lawmakers, the White House recently shared a classified memo with Congress that outlined the legal argument defending the operations." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

Looks like academia is about to experience an uptick on the pogrom meter because Tyler Robinson spent a semester in college. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...

Can you think of anything more indicative of disinterest in peace than attacking the negotiators in a neutral country hosting peace talks? www.reuters.com/world/middle...

'The Trump Administration’s War on the Laws of War.' I examine recent US approaches to international humanitarian law and the "concerted effort to unravel some of the most significant and hard-won threads of the international legal order." Read here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/the-trump-ad...

If Putin comes to the US and is not arrested, we will be violating Geneva Conventions obligations to search for and try or extradite for trial persons suspected of having committed "grave breaches" of the Conventions. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

There's still some hope in the courts: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

In conclusion, the reason for deploying National Guard and U.S. Marines was to pressure L.A. cops to use excessive force against peaceful protestors to prevent them from getting near the National Guard and Marines.

Whoever's responsible for saying the student was wrong to express "one sided views" should be fired 'cause that's saying the quiet part out loud. On second thought, everyone at NYU responsible for withholding his diploma should be fired. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

While students are being targeted for protesting Israeli war crimes, check out the warm welcome at Mar-a-Lago, Yale U, and in the fund-raising salons of NYC's Upper East Side for an Israeli official actually convicted of terrorism charges: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

What protocols are in place to protect Mr. Garcia from retaliation by the brutal government holding him at the behest of a vengeful government that shipped him off without due process? It is unethical to expose detainees to such risks without safeguards. The ICRC knows: www.icrc.org/en/document/...

International law is part of our law and the prohibition of the threat or use of aggressive force, per Art. 2(4) of the UN Charter, is perhaps THE most significant provision of international law. We're talking well beyond garden-variety high crimes or misdemeanors. www.rawstory.com/trump-greenl...

Columbia students who oppose Israeli war crimes are being used by the university as human sacrifices to MAGA. www.dropsitenews.com/p/columbia-u...

In the rush of justified outrage over his nominees there’s surprisingly little discussion of why he deliberately picked such incompetent sycophants. My answer: 1) the more outrageous his choices, the more it cements his domination over those Rs who believe they are powerless to oppose them; and ...

Bibi confirms the righteousness of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against him for war crimes when he stands by approvingly while Trump calls for the crime against humanity of ethnic cleansing of Gaza. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Maybe 5% of 10s of 1,000s of homicides/yr trigger federal prosecution with only 40 people on federal death row for decades of cases. The death penalty is an arbitrary crapshoot. If it “must stop” (Biden), commuting some but not all death sentences is irrational. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I Chair the International Humanitarian Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA). We have issued this Statement opposing sanctions against the International Criminal Court: www.ila-americanbranch.org/committee_re...

Every day brings a new worst thing. Today it’s ABC folding in the defamation case brought against it by Trump – a case ABC most certainly would have won - because avoiding his wrath is so much more important than integrity for mainstream media. www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

A compelling argument that you can either stand with Israel or with Netanyahu, but not both. And that standing against Netanyahu is essential to peace and justice for Palestine. As for the US, anti-ICC demagogues like Lindsay Graham and Josh Hawley must be shut down. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Companies are using US synagogues to market land in the Israeli settlements in OPT, thus aiding and abetting the war crime of transferring one's own population into occupied territory. Does anyone know of efforts to prohibit this practice in the US or elsewhere? www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

In 2021, we (and separately, ACLU) sucessfully sued Trump over his ICC sanctions. Does anyone know of efforts to prepare for the likely renewal of sanctions coming from either Congress or the incoming administration or both? www.justiceinitiative.org/newsroom/jus...

The ICC has issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...