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After months of international consternation, China’s cybersecurity law (CSL) went into effect today. For a deep dive on what foreign companies should expect from the law, see Samm Sacks’s excellent piece...
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China’s cybersecurity law (CSL) officially takes effect today.
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Last August, David Wirth explained to Lawfare’s readers how simple it would be for President Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord’s nonbinding provisions on climate emission ...
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On May 9, immediately after the firing of FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CBS that the administration fired Comey, at least in part, because “rank-and-file” F...
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Jared Kushner wanted a back-channel to talk to the Russians. In the aftermath of the Manchester bombing, the Brits question whether the U.S. can keep secrets. And in the wake of Trump’s meeting with NATO...
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We've been getting a lot of requests for Lawfare merchandise—merch, as the cool kids call it—so we're issuing a new Lawfare t-shirt and a new Lawfare mug.
You know you want them.
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With the appointment of former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate—among other matters—whether the Trump transition team improperly dangled sanctions relief in front of Putin’s ...
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President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord as he pledged on the campaign trail, the New York Times reports.
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Early last year on Lawfare, Ashley discussed the 2015 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) interim rule “establishing registration and marking requirements for small unmanned aircraft used recreationall...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s incumbent president and the “sheikh of diplomacy” who helped engineer the Iran nuclear deal, won a resounding mandate in a...
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This episode is a bit different than normal. Instead of tearing through the latest developments in the wide world of national security law, Professors Vladeck and Chesney instead provide a deep-dive ov...
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Episode 166 is the interview that goes with episode 165’s news roundup, released separately to ensure the timeliness of the news.
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Human rights issues are vitally important, but that does not mean that the United Nations Security Council should address them.
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 pm on Thursday, June 15, when Jack Goldsmith will interview Daniel Drezner on his new book, The Ideas Industry: H...
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Just before the holiday weekend, as you were drifting out of town, the Washington Post dropped its 15 kiloton Kushner bomb.
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In another Friday-evening bombshell, the Washington Post reported that Jared Kushner proposed a secret and secure communications channel between the then-President Elect’s transition team and the Kremlin...
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This morning, CNN reported that
Russian government officials discussed having potentially "derogatory" information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in convers...
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Editor's note: This post is also part of a series in the Brookings Foreign Policy Program on the legacies of the 1967 war.
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Donald Trump thrives on turbulence and hard-fought battles and, as he has often said, he prizes his readiness to return every blow with one even harder than the one landed on him. This is the strategic c...
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Good news. Politico is reporting the breaking news that there will NOT be a ban on laptops on US-EU flights:
The U.S. today opted not to introduce a ban on bringing laptops into the cabins of flights ...