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Justice and the Confiscation of Russian State Assets

As Russia’s war on Ukraine lumbers on, calls to confiscate already-frozen Russian state assets grow louder. Shouldn’t the United States and its allies force a…

Big Data and the Law of War

Big data looms large in today’s world. Much of the tech sector regards the building up of large sets of searchable data as part (sometimes…

Response to Philip Zelikow: Confiscating Russian Assets and the Law

My colleague Philip Zelikow has written a thoughtful response to my recent post on this site. I endorse much of what he says. In that…

Giving Russian Assets to Ukraine—Freezing Is Not Seizing

Pundits have reveled in the prospect of using the Russian central bank funds currently frozen by the U.S. Department of Treasury to make reparations to…