Seth Engel

Concerns about Europe's ailing economy simmer but resist boiling over. The U.S. trade deficit narrows, Spanish bond prices are on the rise, and German exports continue to surge. All of this during a nearly worldwide election year, including in Greece and France this coming...

Traces of the 2012 U.S. Republican campaign will no doubt imprint politics for years, particularly for its virulence against women and minorities: attacks on food stamps, claims that women aren't fit for combat, callous remarks on women's health, and barely suppressed...

Lin-sanity! Lin-VP! Lay-up for the Lin!

A Harvard grad with a name worth $14 million in advertising deals is being praised as a hero of the downtrodden, an underdog who made it big, and the savior of both the Knicks (who have always needed saving) and

If you were asked before Super Bowl Sunday what Clint Eastwood and a young Asian lady have in common, you might have been lost for words. Now we know that these two people are the new epicenters of the controversy surrounding Republican foreign policy.

Karl Rove has painted...

Diplomats, scholars and lawyers from around the world united to create the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998 after decades of dogged effort to bring war criminals to justice, combat impunity for dictators, and provide a small measure of relief to victims of torture, forced deportation, rape, and genocide.

That's...

A video went viral on January 11 portraying four United States marines urinating on the bodies of killed Afghanis. The Navy quickly assured criminal investigation, and the story dropped out of the news cycle, ensuring that the American public would forget it as well. Avoiding critical...

I am always shocked when I meet a full-grown adult who has never left the United States, a person who -- out of choice, not economic constraint -- willingly never leaves their national soil to step onto foreign land. Some even go so far as to call travelling and the...

Please, please, don't make us look stupid!

Is the International Criminal Court (ICC) begging the Libyan government? It seems to be, in its most recent request for information regarding the trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was indicted for crimes against humanity by the Pre-Trial Chamber...

In Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, a 50-year-old Tom Cruise climbs the world's tallest building with one hand. He thwarts the doomsday plot of a less-developed version of Professor Moriarty while simultaneously proving that his split with Katie Holmes was actually a gallant attempt to protect her...

Having a bike in the Netherlands is as essential as having a car in Los Angeles, an iPhone in New York, or a lover in Paris. So you can imagine my dismay when my bike fell apart beneath me one rainy morning while I was living in The Hague.

I...

There has finally been a decision for which I would applaud the International Criminal Court (ICC). Last week the Pre-Trial Chamber I (PTC-I) ordered the release of Callixte Mbarushimana, the former Executive Secretary of the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) in the Democratic Republic...

Budgets, deficits, and austerity. Those three words seem to be all we hear out of Europe these days. The new proposed treaty amendments focus nearly exclusively on centralizing spending oversight and balancing budgets. It seems that German chancellor Angela Merkel (who, by the way, bears a striking resemblance...

It's that wonderful time of the year -- finals season! Upon leaving the Georgetown Law library last night, the flashing red of an ambulance caught my eye from the other side campus. The ambulance was parked adjacent to the dormitory, so this time it couldn't be for our neighbors, the...