Axiomatic, everywhere, to experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic are models: models for prediction, models for understanding, models for projection, models for story-telling. Struggles over the interlocking global crises that the pandemic has provoked—and what to do about them— translate, in...

Something happened to international law between 2004 and 2009. It happened in fits and starts and was largely unforeseen. At various moments during that period, classified legal memoranda were released that analyzed and sought to affirm the legality of the United States’ programme of...