Robert Goldman

Robert Goldman is a prominent legal scholar and the director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University’s Washington College of Law. He previously served as the Independent Expert on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism for the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Goldman has extensively analyzed issues surrounding international law, human rights, and the legality of military actions, particularly in relation to targeted killings and extrajudicial executions. He has been vocal in his critique of U.S. military operations that conflate drug trafficking with acts of war, arguing that such actions lack legal justification under international law.