by John Thorlin | Feb 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
By John Thorlin — Should the United States reinstitute the draft? In the Summer 2010 edition of the Yale Journal of International Affairs, Dr. Joseph Vasquez questions the wisdom of using private military contractors (PMCs) and suggests that reinstitution of the...
by John Thorlin | Jun 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
By John Thorlin, NSJ Digest Editor – On June 2, 2010, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned. Though he poetically (or just strangely) claimed that a Japanese songbird he had seen during a recent trip to Korea had signaled to him that it was time to...
by John Thorlin | Mar 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
By John Thorlin, NSJ Staff Editor – In Probing Secrets: The Press and Inchoate Liability for Newsgathering Crimes (in the Spring 2009 issue of the American Journal of Criminal Law) Professor William E. Lee of the University of Georgia examines the legality of...
by John Thorlin | Feb 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
By John Thorlin, NSJ Staff Editor – Assassinating foreign leaders outside of an ongoing armed conflict is of questionable legality, even if doing so would prevent a broader war. Humanitarian interventions such as the NATO bombings in Kosovo–acts...
by John Thorlin | Dec 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
By John Thorlin, NSJ Staff Editor – Writing for the Yale Journal of International Law, Prof. Robert Sloane of the Boston University School of Law delves into the national security variant of the old debate about ends and means–the distinction and...
by John Thorlin | Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
By John Thorlin, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer On October 29, 2009, Harvard Law School Prof. Alan Dershowitz appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to appeal the conviction of Johan Tarculovski. Tarculovski was charged...
