This month, academics at the American University in Cairo declared no confidence in the institution’s president after his decision to grant US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo an uncontested platform for a partisan foreign-policy speech in January. Pompeo used the occasion to decry former US president Barack Obama’s own pronouncements from the same stage a decade earlier, and to […]
Author Archives: Ruti Teitel
Ruti Teitel is the Ernst C Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School, a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of Globalizing Transitional Justice. Her forthcoming book from Oxford University Press is Righting Our Global Wrongs: The President and Justice for American Empire.