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Category Archives: International Law
Arynne Wexler: ‘Here’s What You Say to a Leftist Claiming Trump Broke International Law’
Arynne Wexler writes Jan. 5, 2026: Here’s what you can tell a leftist claiming that President Trump “broke international law” when he captured the narcoterrorist dictator Nicolás Maduro. International law is WORD MAGIC. It’s meaningless. It’s used by people with … Continue reading
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The Hero System of Human Rights Scholar Amanda Alexander
Ernest Becker (1924-1974), in The Denial of Death, holds that man is the animal who knows he will die and cannot live with the knowledge. Every culture hands him a hero system, a scheme that lets him earn the feeling … Continue reading
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Amanda Alexander: The Civilian, Total War, and the Making of Humanitarian Law
Amanda Alexander (b. 1976) is an Australian legal scholar whose work examines the historical construction of international humanitarian law, the shifting meaning of civilian status, and the cultural foundations of legal consciousness. She works across international humanitarian law, legal history, … Continue reading
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The Hague Kid
The Nostradamus Kid (1992) by Bob Ellis follows Ken, a boy raised in Seventh-day Adventist Australia who expects the world to end at any moment. The soon coming of Christ shapes every decision. Ken falls in love, loses his faith, … Continue reading
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The Architecture and Its Guild: How ASIL Reads Trump
On his show today, Mark Halperin wondered about Trump’s approval ratings at the American Society of International Law, which meets this week. The question has a structural answer before it has an empirical one. The field selects for men whose … Continue reading
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Buffered Guardians, Porous Fighters: The Self Assumed by the Laws of War
The history of international humanitarian law is usually told as a story about rules, institutions, and doctrines. It can also be told as a story about the kind of person those rules require. Not just the soldier or the lawyer … Continue reading
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Redemption Machines: Hero Systems in the History of the Laws of War
The laws of war endure not because they solve violence but because they offer those who administer them a way to believe that violence can be redeemed. This is not a cynical observation. It is a structural one. Any system … Continue reading
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The Sorting Machine: Innocence as Political Demand in the Laws of War
The law does not merely protect the innocent. It produces them. To receive protection under the laws of war, a person must first satisfy a set of conditions that have nothing to do with their moral worth and everything to … Continue reading
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Diagnoses of Suffering: Competing Causal Theories in the Laws of War
Every legal system embeds a theory of harm. To prohibit something you must first decide what causes it, and to assign responsibility you must first decide who or what drives the causal chain. Criminal law answers these questions for individual … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power in the History and Practice of International Humanitarian Law
Nobody in international humanitarian law says they want power over the definition of legitimate violence. They say they protect the vulnerable, humanize war, or fill gaps in the law. That is the move. Interpretive authority is a status claim wrapped … Continue reading
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