Judge Colleen McMahon (74 years old) has an objectively better understanding of LLMs than every single person affiliated with DOGE, including (ahem, especially) Elon Musk.
I am looking forward to Monday night at the New York Historical Society.
I'll be moderating the discussion with Tess Bridgeman (@tessbridgeman.bsky.social) and Mary McCord.
Our topic:
Power Without Impunity: War Crimes and Illegal Orders
Tickets:
www.nyhistory.org/programs/pow...
When unlawful orders are given, whether in times of war or in moments of domestic unrest, who bears responsibility, and where does accountability truly lie?
The war with Iran is expanding to new fronts.
@bcfinucane.bsky.social and I explore a longstanding tension between the traditional law of naval warfare and the UN Charter. -- Historically largely theoretical, but recent attacks on vessels flagged to third states are bringing it to a boiling point.
US blockade of Iran entails not only a use of force against Iran, but also (per USG) uses of force against foreign merchant vessels.
Hard to square a naval blockade w/ Article 2(4) of the UN Charter.
My latest in @justsecurity.org with @becingber.bsky.social.
www.justsecurity.org/142005/block...
U.S. attacks on neutral vessels to enforce its Iran blockade point to U.S. violations of UN Charter against four different countries.
Dismantling USAID, defunding VOA, closing the Wilson Center, and hollowing out the State Department's career diplomatic service together represent a strategic effort to decapitate the organizational and intellectual infrastructure of the liberal international order within the American state itself
