Ruti Teitel
Ruti Teitel, a professor at New York Law School and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, is the author of Humanity’s Law.
Ruti Teitel, a professor at New York Law School and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, is the author of Humanity’s Law.
Well-designed humanitarian intervention, as well as legal accountability for war crimes and atrocities, can send a strong signal to thugs and tyrants that they must reckon with the values underpinning… read more
US President Barack Obama has promised to send a group of 100 armed military personnel to Uganda – a high-powered posse to help bring to justice the notorious war criminal Joseph Kony, the leader of t… read more
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the United States successfully pressed creditors to write off much of Iraq’s external debt. As political change again sweeps across the Middle East, the issue of so-c… read more
The former dictator Jorge Videla was recently convicted and sentenced to life in prison by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for his role in Argentina’s “dirty war,” including the torture and e… read more
The World Court’s recent ruling on Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence is being widely touted as giving a green light to secessionist movements to gain statehood. In fact, it does no such … read more
