TIME Publishes Larry Tribe and Ray Tolentino Op-ed, “How to Make Russia Pay to Rebuild Ukraine"

TIME published, “How to Make Russia Pay to Rebuild Ukraine,” an op-ed by Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP lawyers Larry Tribe and Ray Tolentino.

[T]he Renew Democracy Initiative, a pro-democracy organization founded by former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, commissioned a comprehensive report to investigate the legal, practical, and moral dimensions of transferring Russia’s assets to Ukraine. As the report’s principal authors, we conducted this study with the help of a battery of brilliant associates at the leading law firm of Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP and with invaluable input from experts around the world, including the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Working Group on Russian Sanctions, the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, and Razom. After roughly half a year of careful analysis, we submitted our final report this September 17. Our report, which spans nearly 200 pages with some 740 carefully sourced footnotes, explains exactly why there is no basis for the ostensible legal doubts about whether the U.S. President has the all the authority he needs under both domestic and international law to transfer to Ukraine the sovereign Russian assets frozen here. … There can now be no justification for halfway measures, let alone for doing nothing while Ukraine is destroyed. Inaction is an illusion: it would represent a cowardly decision to appease and to encourage further aggression around the world."

Read the op-ed here.