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no bull and the aftermath.

Another important decision point for the Biden administration, respect to potential accountability

mechanisms that we haven't gotten into yet, is whether it will support efforts by Senator

Dick Durbin to fix the Warcrimes Act, so to provide for jurisdiction over perpetrators

of grave breaches of the Geneva Commensions or other war criminals who come to the United

States, but who are not national and US nationals and didn't commit crimes against US nationals.

It's long been the position of the executive branch that such jurisdiction is legally required

by the Geneva Commensions.

Current law does not have that and so Senator Durbin is proposed to fix that loophole and

expand the jurisdiction of the Warcrimes Act.

I'm Natalie Orpet and this is the LawFair podcast, April 22nd, 2022.

This week, we're bringing you a live recording of our recent LawFair Live event titled

Ukraine and the Future of National Security Law.

I moderated a panel of experts, including Brian Fannouken, Senior Advisor for the US Program

at Crisis Group, Shemen Kitener, Professor of International Law at UC Hastings, Todd Huntley,

Director of the National Security Law Program at Georgetown Law, and Scott R. Anderson,

LawFair's own senior editor and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

We talked about a wide range of issues coming out of the current conflict in Ukraine,

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