Jeff Kahn

Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. Research focus on national security, human rights, & Russia. Views expressed are strictly in my personal capacity.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

@c_vandergriff, thanks for a great story on @CBSDFW on the release of Brittney Griner, swapped for the notorious Victor Bout. Glad she is home and hoping that the pressure mounts to get Paul Whelan and other Americans home, too. https://t.co/5U3BbOnCkk

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

Happy to speak at @UWCREECA today. An excellent center for serious scholars. And a fun place to test drive ideas. Today: the role of lawyers in the 1990s decision-making process to offer Russia membership in the Council of Europe. Thanks, Prof. Kathryn Hendley, for the invite!

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

Thanks, @jmketo, for chairing a great panel at #aleksanteri2022 on the interplay between institutions and states with papers on the OSCE from @Marzia_Cim, complaints systems from Elena Bogdanova & my paper on the origins of Russia's CoE membership and the seeds for its expulsion.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

You Be the Ump 7/7
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https://t.co/zgg9o3OmRN

Just like being on the Supreme Court, I suppose...

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@carlissc @Prof_CarlaReyes Congratulations! Two great scholars!

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

Hey, @rachelweinerwp, great article today! These are definitely cases to watch.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

Great article in @washingtonpost on developments in terrorist watchlist cases in CA4 & CA9, and gov't efforts to moot potentially successful cases. https://t.co/hBJ7JSSTXf A strange world in which one ceases to be a "suspected terrorist" when a judge gets interested in the case.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

Great article in @washingtonpost on developments in terrorist watchlist cases in CA4 & CA9, and gov't efforts to moot potentially successful cases. https://t.co/hBJ7JSSTXf A strange world in which one ceases to be a "suspected terrorist" when a judge gets interested in the case.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

The president must be impeached and convicted for his conduct yesterday. He should be barred forever from any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. He has disgraced himself and placed our democracy at great risk. History's judgment cannot be severe enough.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

As the sedition caucus, led by Senators Hawley and Cruz, warms up for its democracy-weakening stunts today, those who care about what these craven, ambitious men would so casually destroy will find nothing better than this summary of their selfish games: https://t.co/ozi2LGNV29

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

This president's thuggish behavior ("Fellas, I need 11,000 votes.") is impeachable. He should be convicted for it, denied the right ever to return to office. But that treats the symptom only. What's the cure for 74 million voters thinking he had earned a second term as president?

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

@nathancortez @JoannaGrossman Thank you @JoannaGrossman for saying what needs to be said in response to this ignorant and insulting op-ed. How infuriating that what needs to be said still needs to be said. This is not rocket science, Dr. (Hon.) Epstein.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

Happy to see today's 8-0 SCOTUS opinion in Tanzin v. Tanvir that fed'l officials may be sued for damages under RFRA to remedy placement on the No Fly List for refusing to become FBI informants. And proud to have filed an amicus brief supporting the effort. https://t.co/zvVQ3DsPZi

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

Here's a short list of POTUS's efforts to keep power. The term for that is autogolpe: self-coup. If you think that's overly dramatic you may be distracted from his true intentions by his bottomless incompetence. The silence of most GOP elite? Contemptible. https://t.co/5b3xLN0UGr

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

A sad coda to this president's path of destruction, not only while in office but also finally exiting it, is Ms. Murphy's felt need to claim that she was not pressured and acted independently. Shakespeare knew the type well: The lady doth protest too much. https://t.co/tRWiFJ4qRr

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

And now a word from serious government officials: https://t.co/X3TXFrTo8x.

Thank you for what shouldn't have to count for courage, but does these days: restating confirmable facts in the face of mendacious attacks by a faithless man enabled by cowardly & selfish political hacks.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

Petri depicts the "hideous spectacle" Justice Kavanaugh fears most. "Have you ever seen a naked ballot after midnight? Dancing in a clearing, its dots pulsing and rippling all over the page, frolicking with a diabolical delight? Pray that you never shall." https://t.co/jJP1RNjRLe

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

In other news, a visual rendition of Marie-Antoinette's famous line, "Qu’ils mangent de la brioche," appears in Times Square, updated and reinterpreted just in time for the election. https://t.co/Q7vf7FA5UR

[SMU Dedman School of Law @SMULawSchool]

Congratulations to SMU Law Prof. @ChrisJenks_SMU and @STCL_Houston Geoff Corn who appeared & participated @IntlCrimCourt #Ntaganda case on the meaning of "attack" as part of #WarCrimes against cultural property under the Rome Statute.

[Jeff Kahn @Jeff_Kahn1]

SMU is one of only seven U.S. colleges and universities at which undergraduates can earn a degree in human rights. Rick Halperin explains why expansion of those programs is so needed in a country with "virtually no culture of human rights." https://t.co/1kNrlGdlAp

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Collaborators: “Sometimes the point isn’t to make people believe a lie – it’s to make people fear the liar.”
https://t.co/Q23znBDmse