Jonathan Hafetz
@jonathanhafetz.bsky.social
Professor of Law at Seton Hall University. Formerly ACLU senior attorney. Host of Law on Film podcast.
Thrilled to have William Schabas join me on my
Law on Film podcast to discuss "An Officer and a Spy" and the legacy of the Dreyfus Affair.
Law on Film podcast to discuss "An Officer and a Spy" and the legacy of the Dreyfus Affair.
An Officer and a Spy (2019) (Guest: William Schabas) (episode 51) - Law on Film
This episode explores An Officer and a Spy (J’accuse in French), Roman Polanski’s 2019 film about the Dreyfus Affair in France. The Dreyfus Affair is one of most significant events in late 19th/early ...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Thrilled to have William Schabas join me on my
Law on Film podcast to discuss "An Officer and a Spy" and the legacy of the Dreyfus Affair.
Law on Film podcast to discuss "An Officer and a Spy" and the legacy of the Dreyfus Affair.
Honored to have my scholarship on atrocity crimes and fair trials featured by Rutgers Center for Race, Rights, and Security podcast @saharazizlaw.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2311895/epis...
Punishing Atrocities and Fair Trials: From Nuremberg to Global Terrorism (Episode 46) - Race and Rights Podcast
In this episode, we welcome Professor Jonathan Hafetz for an insightful discussion on the complex legal challenges involved in prosecuting individuals accused of mass crimes. Our conversation traces t...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Honored to have my scholarship on atrocity crimes and fair trials featured by Rutgers Center for Race, Rights, and Security podcast @saharazizlaw.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2311895/epis...
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Thanks to our star speakers at #IBA2026 @ibanews.bsky.social for enriching the PSDC's panel. Your expertise in business, international law, health law & food & agriculture law sparked an engaging conversation on practical pathways to eradicate extreme poverty&hunger. #SDG1 @uottawahrrec.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Thanks to our star speakers at #IBA2026 @ibanews.bsky.social for enriching the PSDC's panel. Your expertise in business, international law, health law & food & agriculture law sparked an engaging conversation on practical pathways to eradicate extreme poverty&hunger. #SDG1 @uottawahrrec.bsky.social
Excited to participate in multiple #IBAToronto #IBA2025 conference panels today, including on the human rights impacts of corruption, on eradicating global poverty, and on the documentary film, "The Veto" about reforming the UN Security Council @ibanews.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Excited to participate in multiple #IBAToronto #IBA2025 conference panels today, including on the human rights impacts of corruption, on eradicating global poverty, and on the documentary film, "The Veto" about reforming the UN Security Council @ibanews.bsky.social
Celebrating episode # 50 on Law on Film podcast, as acclaimed criminal defense attorney Frank Wohl joins me to unpack Clint Eastwood's "Juror #2"
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Juror #2 (2024) (Guest: Frank Wohl) (episode 50) - Law on Film
This episode examines Juror #2, Clint Eastwood’s most recent—and perhaps final—film. Juror #2 centers around the trial of a man accused of murdering his girlfriend after a fight at a bar, leaving her ...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Celebrating episode # 50 on Law on Film podcast, as acclaimed criminal defense attorney Frank Wohl joins me to unpack Clint Eastwood's "Juror #2"
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Today is, finally, a bright blue day in the U.S.
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today is, finally, a bright blue day in the U.S.
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WEDNESDAY 5 Nov at #IBAToronto – IBAHRI Director Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC is chairing the session ‘Human rights impact of corruption’ from 0930–1045. Speakers include @jonathanhafetz.bsky.social, Neri Colmenares, Sunday Agwu, Shirley Pouget and John Balouziyeh.
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More info: tinyurl.com/yeyhp4e4
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
WEDNESDAY 5 Nov at #IBAToronto – IBAHRI Director Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC is chairing the session ‘Human rights impact of corruption’ from 0930–1045. Speakers include @jonathanhafetz.bsky.social, Neri Colmenares, Sunday Agwu, Shirley Pouget and John Balouziyeh.
More info: tinyurl.com/yeyhp4e4
More info: tinyurl.com/yeyhp4e4
Very happy to report that our client, Nizar Trabelsi, is now finally free after years of unlawful detention and inhumane treatment.
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Acquitted Soccer Player Free to Reunite with Family in Belgium After Over a Decade in Solitary Confinement | American Civil Liberties Union
Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian national and former professional soccer player who was acquitted of terrorism-related charges over two years ago, has finally...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Very happy to report that our client, Nizar Trabelsi, is now finally free after years of unlawful detention and inhumane treatment.
www.aclu.org/press-releas...
www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Danielle Sassoon is right to call out universities for using “security” as a convenient justification for shutting down controversial speech. The notion that conservatives are the main victims of this practice is delusional, though. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...
Opinion | I Resigned as Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney. Law Schools Are Missing the Point of My Story.
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October 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Danielle Sassoon is right to call out universities for using “security” as a convenient justification for shutting down controversial speech. The notion that conservatives are the main victims of this practice is delusional, though. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...
On the latest Law on Film podcast, Elliot Hasler, writer and director of "Vindication Swim," joins me to discuss Mercedes Gleitze's historic and contested swim across the English channel, which raises timeless questions of proof, reputation, and justice.
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Vindication Swim (2024) (Guest: Elliot Hasler) (episode 49) - Law on Film
Vindication Swim (2024) tells the story of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel in 1927. This major accomplishment, however, was soon called into question when another...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On the latest Law on Film podcast, Elliot Hasler, writer and director of "Vindication Swim," joins me to discuss Mercedes Gleitze's historic and contested swim across the English channel, which raises timeless questions of proof, reputation, and justice.
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Important statement by @nycbarassociation.bsky.social on unlawful U.S. attacks on Venezuelan vessels. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels | New York City Bar Association
Congress must act promptly, as pending legislation proposes, to make clear to the President and the nation that the President’s threat of similar attacks on Venezuelan vessels (and on Venezuela itself...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Important statement by @nycbarassociation.bsky.social on unlawful U.S. attacks on Venezuelan vessels. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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Few companies rely on—and benefit from—our constitutional freedoms as much as media empires like Disney and Paramount. It’s astonishing to see them trading away their freedoms and ours for short-term profits.
September 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Few companies rely on—and benefit from—our constitutional freedoms as much as media empires like Disney and Paramount. It’s astonishing to see them trading away their freedoms and ours for short-term profits.
To kick off Season 4 of Law on Film podcast, Professor Steve Koh @bulaw.bsky.social joins me for "The Godfather," a masterpiece of crime & power. Listen as we discuss how the film explores themes of justice, loyalty, corruption, and the blurred lines between family & law:
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Ep 48: The Godfather — Law on Film
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September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
To kick off Season 4 of Law on Film podcast, Professor Steve Koh @bulaw.bsky.social joins me for "The Godfather," a masterpiece of crime & power. Listen as we discuss how the film explores themes of justice, loyalty, corruption, and the blurred lines between family & law:
www.lawonfilm.com/godfather
www.lawonfilm.com/godfather
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As we are about to start the new school year, it's exciting to see all the forthcoming scholarship by my fantastic Seton Hall Law colleagues! Read more about it: law.shu.edu/news/seton-h...
August 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
As we are about to start the new school year, it's exciting to see all the forthcoming scholarship by my fantastic Seton Hall Law colleagues! Read more about it: law.shu.edu/news/seton-h...
I'm honored to be joined by @omerbartov.bsky.social and @lisahajjar.bsky.social for a discussion of the Oscar-award-winning Palestinian-Israeli documentary "No Other Land" on the latest episode of my Law on Film podcast.
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No Other Land (2024) (Palestinian-Israeli) (Guests: Omer Bartov & Lisa Hajjar) - Law on Film
No Other Land (2024) is the Oscar-winning documentary that shows the brutal destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. Recorded between 2019 to 2023, the film tells the story of...
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August 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm honored to be joined by @omerbartov.bsky.social and @lisahajjar.bsky.social for a discussion of the Oscar-award-winning Palestinian-Israeli documentary "No Other Land" on the latest episode of my Law on Film podcast.
Listen here:
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Listen here:
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Wonderful to participate in @icon-s.bsky.social in Brasilia
August 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Wonderful to participate in @icon-s.bsky.social in Brasilia
Jut out on Law on Film podcast: The truly great historical-legal drama, "The Return of Martin Guerre".
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The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) (France) (Guest: Joseph Dellapenna) (episode 46) - Law on Film
The Return of Martin Guerre is a 1982 French historical drama directed by Daniel Vigne and staring Gerard Depardieu. The film describes the historical case of Martin Guerre who leaves his young wife B...
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July 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Jut out on Law on Film podcast: The truly great historical-legal drama, "The Return of Martin Guerre".
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My latest article, "Digital Information Technologies and International Humanitarian Law: New Challenges and Opportunities" is now out in the Denv. J. Int'l L. & Policy. Thanks again to all those who offered helpful feedback along the way
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'Digital Information Technologies and International Humanitarian Law: New Opportunities and Challenges'
Digital technologies are transforming the nature and role of information during armed conflict. They have exponentially increased the amount of information abou
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July 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
My latest article, "Digital Information Technologies and International Humanitarian Law: New Challenges and Opportunities" is now out in the Denv. J. Int'l L. & Policy. Thanks again to all those who offered helpful feedback along the way
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I talk about these sites in an episode of Law on Film, @jonathanhafetz.bsky.social's excellent & informative podcast about #law in the movies. #genocide #Cambodia www.buzzsprout.com/2073468/epis...
First They Killed My Father (2017) and The Gate (2014) (Guest: Melanie O'Brien) (episode 37) - Law on Film
This episode looks at two films about the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s: First They Killed My Father (dir. Angelina Jolie), and The Gate (or Les Temps des Aveux) (dir. Régis Wargnier). First They Ki...
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July 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I talk about these sites in an episode of Law on Film, @jonathanhafetz.bsky.social's excellent & informative podcast about #law in the movies. #genocide #Cambodia www.buzzsprout.com/2073468/epis...
Honored to give the keynote address tomorrow to the Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de Mexico, on "International Criminal Law and the Global Pursuit of Justice: Challenges and Imperatives in the 21st Century"
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«International Criminal Law and the Global Pursuit of Justice: Challenges and Imperatives in the 21st Century»
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July 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Honored to give the keynote address tomorrow to the Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de Mexico, on "International Criminal Law and the Global Pursuit of Justice: Challenges and Imperatives in the 21st Century"
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Honored to have Aziz Huq @uchicagolaw.bsky.social join me on Law on Film podcast to discuss Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" and why this masterpiece about fascism is as timely now as ever.
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July 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Honored to have Aziz Huq @uchicagolaw.bsky.social join me on Law on Film podcast to discuss Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" and why this masterpiece about fascism is as timely now as ever.
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I look forward to moderating this upcoming webinar on June 23 for the International Bar Association @ibaevents.bsky.social on global migration and the challenge for international human rights and refugee law. More information and registration here:
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Global migration and the challenge for international human rights and refugee law | International Bar Association
A webinar presented by the IBA Human Rights Law Committee and supported by the IBA Immigration and Nationality Law Committee This webinar will look at the current challenges to the protections of refu...
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June 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I look forward to moderating this upcoming webinar on June 23 for the International Bar Association @ibaevents.bsky.social on global migration and the challenge for international human rights and refugee law. More information and registration here:
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Great to have my former law school classmate and longtime friend @markntempleton.bsky.social on my Law on Film podcast to talk about "Dark Waters" and the prospects for environmental justice in America.
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Dark Waters (2019) (Guest: Mark Templeton) (episode 44) - Law on Film
Dark Waters (2019), directed by Todd Haynes, tells the real-life story of how a lawyer, Rob Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), waged a twenty-year battle to hold the DuPont corporation accountable for contaminati...
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June 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Great to have my former law school classmate and longtime friend @markntempleton.bsky.social on my Law on Film podcast to talk about "Dark Waters" and the prospects for environmental justice in America.
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With the help of colleagues @tylermcbrien.com & @annahickey.lawfaremedia.org of @lawfaremedia.org , I compiled this interactive table of the state of play of litigation over Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Lemme know if you see errors.
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June 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
With the help of colleagues @tylermcbrien.com & @annahickey.lawfaremedia.org of @lawfaremedia.org , I compiled this interactive table of the state of play of litigation over Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Lemme know if you see errors.
lawfaremedia.org/alienenemiestable
lawfaremedia.org/alienenemiestable
It was an honor participating in a panel addressing national security and immigration issues, and the current threats to the Constitution @lawandsociety.bsky.social in Chicago, with @akalhan.bsky.social, @pmargs.bsky.social, @nicolehallett.bsky.social, Eunice Lee, Arianna Vedaschi, Chiara Graziani,
May 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
It was an honor participating in a panel addressing national security and immigration issues, and the current threats to the Constitution @lawandsociety.bsky.social in Chicago, with @akalhan.bsky.social, @pmargs.bsky.social, @nicolehallett.bsky.social, Eunice Lee, Arianna Vedaschi, Chiara Graziani,