Ryan Goodman asserts U.S. is involved in Yemen's civil war; ÈâÂþÎÝ Law faculty blog about other foreign policy issues
Earlier this week, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law penned an about the U.S. involvement in Yemen’s civil war. Goodman writes that although “no act of government calls for greater debate and deliberation than the decision to commit the country to war… the president appears to have secretly inserted the United States in Yemen’s civil war.â€
"The administration's decision to become directly involved in militarily defeating the insurgency in Yemen may be sound policy; or it may not. Right or wrong, it is not for President Obama alone to decide," Goodman argues.
This is just one of a number of pieces on foreign policy and national security that Goodman has recently published. As co-editor-in-chief of the new blog , an online forum for the rigorous analysis of law, rights, and U.S. national security policy, Goodman has written on a range of subjects, including analyses of a Human Rights Watch report on , two new , and the . Goodman has also appeared in his capacity as co-editor of Just Security on and on to discuss these and other topics.
Other ÈâÂþÎÝ Law faculty members and affiliates contributing to Just Security include , John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law; Sarah Knuckey, research director of the Law School’s ; Professor of Clinical Law ; , Robert B. McKay Professor of Law; and University Professor .
Philip Alston recently published a piece on ; Stephen Schulhofer has addressed the ; and Margaret Satterthwaite recently wrote on Satterthwaite's analysis of the case of al-Libi under human rights and humanitarian law garnered media attention from the . Sarah Knuckey's in two reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on targeted killings has also been .
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Posted on October 25, 2013