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Two enduring truths shape the study of human rights. First, states violate the rights of their own citizens at an alarmingly high rate. Second, these same states are rarely held accountable for their actions. Despite decades of international advocacy, treaties, and tribunals, impunity remains the norm. My new book, Escaping Justice: State Impunity in the Age […]
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In a high-profile address to US generals earlier this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared, “We don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our war fighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemy.” His words are exactly what US President Donald Trump has been advocating: not just loosening […]
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Every policymaker knows the dilemma: should governments trust people to do the right thing, or make sure they do it? The safer option has usually been enforcement. Write the rules, monitor behavior, punish violations. Citizens obey because they have to. Yet most regulators also know something they rarely act on: people tend to follow rules […]
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In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York Times documented over 145 instances of workers being disciplined or terminated for comments related to Kirk. Many of those workers were professors—and a surprising number were tenured professors. In other words, academia’s most elite workers were being punished or fired alongside “health care workers, lawyers […]
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The past ten years have been surprising, to say the least, for observers of the Latin American right. There was a time where the left was the star of the show in the region; in the 2000s and 2010s, leaders of the “Pink Tide,” such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, and Michelle […]
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Capable states that enforce the rule of law, secure property rights, and provide public goods are prerequisites for development, but where do they originate? Last year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to scholars who argued for the role of colonial institutions. Opportune as the reckoning with colonialism might be, it has diverted our attention […]
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In People v. The Court, I argue that American democracy is broken and that the Supreme Court’s constitutional doctrine is a key factor contributing to democratic decay. The book charts a path for revolutionary changes in constitutional law that could help repair our broken democracy. The Supreme Court has developed a set of constitutional doctrines […]
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Making housing affordable is now a top priority for countries and subnational governments around the world. While much of the debate appears to be happening in countries like the United States and United Kingdom, low- and middle-income countries have been pursuing policies to make housing accessible for decades. What do these policies look like, what […]
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