Beth Van Schaack
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States
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Past articles by Beth:
The Torture of Forcibly Separating Children from their Parents
A detailed analysis of why the family separation policy amounts to government-sanctioned torture. → Read More
Terrorist Financing: A Backgrounder
One of the causes of action asserted in the Supreme Court's case, Jesner v. Arab Bank, is terrorist financing, an international crime also at issue in the case brought by Ukraine against Russia before the International Court of Justice (see my coverage here). This article provides background on the multilateral treaty prohibiting terrorist financing and calling for perpetrators to be brought to… → Read More
Introducing Just Security’s Symposium on Jesner v Arab Bank
Over course of the next two weeks, we will host a number of contributors addressing the question of whether corporations immune from suit under international law. → Read More
Libya’s Haftar and Liability of Superiors: Ordering Offenses v. Responsibility for Omissions
Fmr State Dept official: "Rarely are such orders captured on film with the specificity and brutality seen in the Haftar case" → Read More
Senate Appropriations Bill Rejects Trump’s Efforts to Downsize State Department and USAID
By a vote of 31-0, the bill adds back nearly $11 billion to the Trump administration's whittled down budget submission. → Read More
Key U.S. Foreign Policy Positions—including Ambassador for War Crimes—Saved from Getting Axed
Read the full text of Secretary Tillerson's letter to Senator Corker. → Read More
An Update of the Israel-Palestine-International Criminal Court Timeline
A lot has happened before the International Criminal Court since we last reported on the Palestine and related situations. The timeline below picks up where my last timeline of relevant events left off. → Read More
Federal Court: US Can Extradite Ex-El Salvador Official to Spain for Jesuits Massacre
On Monday, U.S. federal judge Terrence Boyle ruled that Inocente Orlando Montano Morales (Montano)—who headed El Salvador’s National Police → Read More
Representative Ted Lieu in Defense of Global Justice
Members of Congress engage an effort to save a part of State Department that addresses atrocities and political violence. → Read More
More Details on Trump, Russia, and the Mysterious Magnitsky Connection
As reported yesterday by Rob Berschinski and Adam Nagy, the Magnitsky Act is back in the news in connection with media reporting on the June 2016 → Read More
State Dept. Office of Global Criminal Justice on the Chopping Block–Time to save it
Word out of Washington is that the Trump Administration has started to restructure the State Department and particularly the → Read More
The ICJ Issues Provisional Measures Against Russia on Ukraine’s Racial Discrimination Claims
Russian media are reporting that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) “rejected” Ukraine’s request for provisional measures → Read More
“Golden Shield” Oral Arguments Today: Doe v. Cisco
A panel of the Ninth Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco (composed of Judges Stephen Reinhardt, Wallace Tashima, and Marsha Berzon) → Read More
“Golden Shield” Oral Arguments Today: Doe v. Cisco
A panel of the Ninth Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco (composed of Judges Stephen Reinhardt, Wallace Tashima, and Marsha Berzon) → Read More
Important New Bipartisan Bill To Advance Accountability for International Crimes in Syria
Following on the heels of last week’s chemical weapon attack in Syria, Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jeanne Shaheen → Read More
Closing the Loop: Sabrina De Sousa Pardoned for Role in CIA Torture and Rendition
Just a quick note to close the loop on the Sabrina De Sousa case, which I discussed in greater detail here. On the day before she was to be → Read More
Ukraine Update: the ICJ Proceedings & Options for Justice in the United States
With the Congressional hearings on Russia dominating the news, this post provides an update on proceedings before the International → Read More
A Look at the Case of the CIA Officer Being Extradited to Italy for her Role in a 2003 Rendition
A Gulfstream IV business jet similar to the one suspected of transporting Abu Omar during his rendition. (Eugene Butler/Wikimedia Commons) News → Read More
Trump’s Muslim Ban & the Propaganda Value of Violence Against Women
There has been much criticism, much deserved, of President Trump’s Executive Order imposing a Muslim Ban on entry into the United States and → Read More
Human Shields in International Humanitarian Law: A Guide to the Legal Framework
To assist our readers interested in the phenomenon of human shields, I’ve produced a compilation of the relevant legal framework → Read More