International Law

Lecturer Shanin Specter explains his theories on how the war in Ukraine can end

Victor Peskin, Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center, explores the formidable obstacles that stand in the way of actually holding Russian President Putin and his inner circle to account for crimes perpetrated by Russian forces in Ukraine

Professor Roxanna Altholz, co-director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, discusses the murder of two men and a teen – all from the same town – whose bodies were found in Phoenix. The families believe human traffickers were behind the killings.

Lecturer Mallika Kaur highlights the life of Justice Ajit Singh Bains, one of India’s finest jurists and human rights defenders, who recently passed away

Professor Katerina Linos appears on the GovExec Daily podcast to discuss how to make customer service more effective in government in a very low-tech way

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, says political inertia and questions over how to better address US tech security and Chinese intellectual property theft are hurdles to fixing or shutting down the China Initiative

Lecturer Mallika Kaur writes, after a year of unprecedented protests, farmers and agrarian laborers in India have won an unprecedented victory and are now poised to change the whole game

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, says, in the federal ‘China Initiative’ case of Harvard nanotechnologist Charles Lieber, the government is settling for charges that have little to do with technology

Professor Roxanna Altholz, co-director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, says the United States’ failure to respond to evidence presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the 2010 killing of Anastasio Hernández Rojas at the hands of U.S. border agents, goes against the president’s campaign commitment that immigration agents “abide by professional standards and are held accountable for inhumane treatment”

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discusses the DOJ’s The China Initiative says he is deeply concerned about technology transfer to China, but the FBI is going too far