Himamauli Das discusses the Trump administration’s uses of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the legal challenges to some of these measures in an article published in Just Security (18 September 2025), a digital law and policy journal housed in the Reiss Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. In “Rethinking IEEPA Accountability and Oversight,” Him discusses how these recent uses of the emergency measures have highlighted the longstanding need for IEEPA reform. He outlines the steps Congress can take to revise IEEPA and strengthen transparency, accountability, and oversight—changes that would preserve presidential flexibility to respond to sudden changes in the national security and foreign policy arena while enhancing transparency and independent oversight for responses that evolve from crises to long-term international challenges.
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