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Stephanie Ross DeSimone is suing Saudi Arabia for its role in 9/11 and the death of her husband. Because she can. On October 26 2016, the US Congress voted to override President Obama’s veto of [...]

International criminal justice took a few tough hits recently. With several African countries announcing their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, the question is what now? Is the [...]

I am not one for science fiction when alien life forms are involved. With the possible exception of some Star Wars and Star Trek movies, and now The Martian. This story is impressive and is told [...]

[Warning: long and cliché complaint about the abominable status of political discourse everywhere. You will have heard or read it all before. Ignore at your own convenience. Or not.] Are we [...]

Part of my academic research for the last three years was focused on the issue of sea piracy, as I have noted before. One particular problem caught my attention. In trying to fight off pirates at [...]

In a world where sovereignty is the organizing principle and states the central subjects, the answer to the next question may look simple. How is international law made? Well, you may answer that [...]

And we move along to the third and final part of the mini-series about favorite movie scenes about law. Any connection between these last two movie scenes is tenuous, but it could be this: In [...]

I flippantly said in the beginning of this blog and my journey as freelance writer, that I dreamt of reading the biographies of all US presidents. In order. Low and behold, I started. Why not. [...]

Admittedly, I am a Mark Twain novice, and I stumbled on this quote accidentally. As I said in my very first post on this blog, I intend to read some Twain. But I haven’t gotten to it yet. In any [...]