In March 2004, the United Nations’ International Court of Justice at the Hague (ICJ), which settles legal disputes between UN member states, heard the Avena case, which involves more than fifty Mexican nationals who are now on death row in the United States. In this case, Mexico brought suit, alleging...

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On March 28, the Supreme Court will take up the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which will determine the permissibility of the Bush administration’s plan to use military tribunals to conduct trials of al Qaeda senior leaders. In...

The protests over the president"s decision to authorize military tribunals to try terrorists call to mind Barry Goldwater"s remark that "extremism in defense of liberty is no vice."

War is either such an evil in itself that the United States should withdraw from its dominant world position or greater causes—such as advancing human freedom—can make war necessary. Two books on justice in war implicitly probe this profound choice.

ObamaCare attempts to tightly control the use of medical services by exerting more leverage over doctors, which will kill off private-practice medicine.

How should al Qaeda terrorist suspects held in Western detention be brought to justice? In his new book, "Justice and the Enemy" (PublicAffairs, 2012), British author William Shawcross describes how the lessons of the past can direct us in confronting our enemies today.

The Bush administration's advocacy of the Convention on the Law of the Sea is baffling.