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Op-ed: Legal Aspects of ‘Operation Cast Lead’ in Gaza

January 13, 2009 21:06

View my op-ed published on JURIST Forum,  Legal Aspects of ‘Operation Cast Lead’ in Gaza, where I argue that while self-defense (in the classic model) is the legal basis for Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” against Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces’ re-articulation of...

Restoring the Balance Between Security and Justice, a Response

November 19, 2008 21:25

The following article is posted from the JURIST-Forum, “A National Security Court: Restoring the Balance Between Security and Justice.” Although I very much enjoyed reading Professor Leila Nadya Sadat’s recent JURIST Forum op-ed Restoring America’s Rights Record, I...

Military Commissions and National Security Courts after Guantanamo

November 13, 2008 15:41

View my essay, Military Commissions and National Security Courts after Guantanamo, Northwestern Law Review, Colloquy, 2008, written in response to Gregory S. McNeal’s article, Beyond Guantanamo, Obstacles and Options. Abstract: In the aftermath of 9/11, definitional uncertainty as to the...

Anticipatory Self-Defense Key to Terror Fight

November 10, 2008 01:08

View an op-ed I co-wrote with Dan Barr of Perkins Coie Brown & Bain published Nov. 8 in the Arizona Republic, “Anticipatory Self-Defense Key to Terror Fight.” In applying “lessons learned” from previous examples of anticipatory self-defense, we recommend that the...

The Role of Justice in the Darfur Peace Process: Dispelling the Myths

October 03, 2008 20:33

This analyis was prepared by the Public International Law & Policy Group   The arguments surrounding the recent Application for an Issuance of an Arrest Warrant by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for President Al Bashir of Sudan for crimes against humanity and genocide...