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In 1571, an English jurist named Edmund Plowden, trying to make sense of cases involving the sale and purchase of land owned by various monarchs, argued:
[T]he King has in him two Bodies, viz., a Body ...
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Editor’s Note: Russia's return to prominence on the world stage is forcing security officials in the United States and Europe to rethink their postures. One of Russia's biggest moves is its renewed empha...
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Over the past year, Lawfare has expended a great deal of ink on the problem of sextortion, a form of online sexual assault in which perpetrators obtain explicit images or video of their victims and use t...
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Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, and Benjamin Wittes posted the Lawfare Readership Survey. Please take a moment to fill it out!
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The Washington Post reports that Department of Justice officials are considering bringing criminal charges and seeking the arrest of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange. CNN sources claim the charges have already ...
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The Jerusalem Post published yesterday a lengthy profile of Israel’s Military Advocate-General, Sharon Afek. The article notes that Afek will have a key role in shaping Israel’s posture toward the Intern...
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North Korea dominates discussion as VP Pence visits the region
Photo: The Jakarta Post/Tama Salim
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The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts today released its statutorily mandated annual report on activities of the FISA courts.
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It's been a while since we did a readership survey. It's not that we haven't cared what you think. We've just been busy.
But it's time to do it again. We've got big plans—plans for partnerships, plans f...
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The government has released the second annual Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on Activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts as required by the USA F...
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On April 18th, the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), University of Pennsylvania Law School, hosted a conference on Foreign Interference with Democratic Institutions. CERL was founded and is d...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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Reuters reports that a pro-government Russian think tank fleshed out the strategy employed by the Kremlin to compromise the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Two confidential think tank documents obtained...
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Elsewhere on Lawfare, scholars have argued that U.S. airstrikes against the Syrian regime are difficult to defend as consistent with international law. John Bellinger writes that “under the U.N. Charter,...
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North Korea’s missile launch fizzles, but the ripples spread far and wide. CIA Director Mike Pompeo calls WikiLeaks a hostile intelligence service. And does the Globalist/Nationalist war in the White Hou...
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Following revelations that the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier had not been deployed toward North Korea last week, as the Trump administration claimed, the Wall Street Journal reports that the confusion...
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On January 25th, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on "Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements," marking the first step in building a full-length border wall along the Uni...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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A review of Joe Renouard, Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
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Following a visit to South Korea amidst high tensions over the looming crisis in North Korea, Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Tokyo to reassure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the United St...
