Recognizing the critique of sexual essentialism in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS)
agenda, this article moves beyond this familiar narrative to address the narrowness of …

Law and crises are indelibly linked. For Niccolò Machiavelli, the true law-makers of a state
are not its legislature, judiciary or, indeed, any other organ of the state, but the extraordinary …

The President's words play a unique role in American public life. No other figure speaks with
the reach, range, or authority of the President. The President speaks to the entire population …

A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress's surprisingly potent
set of tools in the system of checks and balances. Congress is widely supposed to be the …

This article argues in favour of the use of derogations in accordance with Article 15 of the
European Convention on Human Rights in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. States of …

This chapter explores the relation between emergencies and illiberalism. As emergencies
produce conditions wherein liberal values such as human rights, the rule of law, and the …

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in Spring 2020, the Trump administration
invoked war against the coronavirus to severely restrict admission of migrants and asylum …

While providing a substantive legal analysis of the links between human rights and counter-
terrorism, this book provides the tools to successfully argue that a human rights approach …

Young Afghans have never known peace. Many of the students who wrote this prose poem
have never even seen Afghanistan. They have grown up as refugees in Iran or Pakistan …

The use of language to alienate, ostracize, dehumanize, and mobilize people on racial,
ethnic, and other forms of profiling has been a prominent feature of the Ethiopian conflict …