Access to Justice and Electoral Integrity https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld Andrew Kent, “Disappearing legal black holes and converging domains: changing individual rights protection in national security and foreign affairs”, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, No. 4 (mayo 2015), pp. 1029-1084 This article discusses the distinction between the protection of individual rights in the context of national security and international affairs. Historically, the U.S. Constitution has changed its applicability under certain characteristics, creating spaces where there has been no legal protection for certain people. National security and international affairs have been marked by these black holes, even though, as shown in the document, it has declined in recent years. The effect has been to suggest a kind of continuity in legal thought about how people are protected from overreaching by the U.S. government. The author states that the future of national security and foreign affairs is likely to see more aggressive judicial review and further application and extension of ordinary constitutional and other legal norms. The number of persons, places, or contexts that are legal black holes will continue to shrink, as national security and foreign affairs will become less and less legally exceptional. The relevance of this article is to find the spaces of convergence between national security principles and the universal protection of human rights. 33