AI may help, but nonprofits still face an uphill battle in allocating resources for extensive investigations into human rights abuses.

Tang comments on communities and stakeholders increasingly examining alternative mechanisms for change.

Flock promised to read license plates. It built surveillance that can track dissenters—and the law hasn’t caught up.

Contrary to Trump’s claims, executive power to impose import bans is constrained by most of the same legal restrictions as the power to impose tariffs.

A review of Jessica Trisko Darden, “The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes” (Yale University Press, 2026).

Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.

A new semi-regular column of essays on law and computation, not quite ready for Substack

Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture—or the law that enabled it.

Political decisions across five administrations have paralyzed the 9/11 cases for 25 years. The Supreme Court can finally help deliver justice.

A primer on how special grand juries work, what federal law actually permits them to do, and why this one might backfire.