On December 1, the Transatlantic Relations Program held an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the Law Society in London with Parosha Chandran, human rights barrister with 1 Pump Court Chambers.

On December 1 and 2, the Transatlantic Relations Program hosted the workshop, “Rising Powers and International Human Rights Law – A Transatlantic Challenge” at Chatham House in London.

On October 24th, the Atlantic Council's Transatlantic Relations Program held an off-the-record dinner and discussion with Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State, who addressed the persistent differences across the Atlantic in attitudes and approaches to international law.

On October 24^th and 25^th, the Atlantic Council's Transatlantic Relations Program, in partnership with the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), hosted the workshop, “Rising Powers and International Human Rights Law – A Transatlantic Challenge.”

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  Attorneys have filed a civil lawsuit in Belgium accusing NATO of killing 13 civilians, including 3 children, by bombing a residential compound of a former government official in Libya.

 The United Nations tribunal investigating the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri has handed down indictments making official what has long been assumed: Hezbollah terrorists were the culprits.

From Siobhan Gorman and Julian E. Barnes, the Wall Street Journal:  The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.

From Robert Bracknell, the New Atlanticist:  Killing bin Ladin was not an extrajudicial execution, a murder, or a war crime.  It was a combat engagement lawful under U.S. and international legal authority – full stop.