• January 25, 2015
  Guest Post: A Response to Kevin Jon Heller
  [Nimrod Karin is a J.S.D. candidate at New York University School of Law. From 2006 to 2012 he served as a legal adviser to the Israel Defense Forces at the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General’s Corps’ HQ, and from 2012...

• January 22, 2015
  No, Going to the ICC Is Not "Lawfare" by Palestine
  Just Security has published two long guest posts (here and here) on the ICC and Palestine by Nimrod Karin, a J.S.D. candidate at New York University School of Law who was previously Deputy Legal Adviser to Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United ...

• January 22, 2015
  Does President Obama Need Congress's Approval to Sign a Nuclear Deal with Iran? Can Congress Force Him to Get Their Approval?
  The fight between President Obama and Congress over Cuba policy is nothing compared the brewing struggle over a U.S.-Iran agreement over Iran's nuclear program.  I noticed this little foreign affairs law nugget today from the WSJ's report of this on...

• January 22, 2015
  Is Boehner's Netanyahu Invite Unconstitutional?
  John Boehner has invited Bibi Netanyahu to address Congress. There's a modern tradition of foreign leaders appearing before the legislature (list here). I'm willing to bet that every single one of those appearances was pre-cleared with the State Depa...

• January 21, 2015
  Does President Obama Need Congress to Lift the Embargo on Cuba? Yes.
  It looks like a big showdown is brewing between the President and Congress over Cuba policy (Here comes 2016 presidential candidate Rubio!).  Some legal commentators have argued, however, that President Obama already has the legal authority to lif...