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The NSA and the USA Freedom Act
The National Security Agency has announced a startling failure in the implementation of the USA Freedom Act of 2015. According to a public statement released by NSA on June 28, the call detail records th... -
Supplement to Curtis A. Bradley & Jack L. Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017)
Here is the Summer 2018 Supplement for Bradley & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017). These materials cover, among many other things, the Supreme Court’s decision in Tru... -
How Anti-Muslim Animus Undermines Years of U.S. Law Enforcement Efforts to Build Relations
Even before the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s travel ban, trust in law enforcement was eroding—and reaching a nadir—among American Muslims. Many view this administration’s policies as a... -
In Israeli Residency Case, Individual Responsibility vs. Collective Punishment
At the peak of a wave of stabbing attacks by Palestinian youth, mainly in Jerusalem, in October 2015, 17-year-old Mustafa al-Khatib stabbed a member of the Israeli Border Police. The officer was slightly... -
The Week That Will Be
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Wars of None: AI, Big Data, and the Future of Insurgency
Editor’s Note: The rapid pace of technological innovation is changing the nature of warfare, and futurists are busy spinning out scenarios of a U.S.-China clash in twenty years involving nano-technology ... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jim Baker and Orin Kerr on the Carpenter Ruling
On June 22, the Supreme Court released its long-awaited ruling in Carpenter v. United States, a case challenging whether law enforcement agencies need a search warrant to acquire the history of a cell ph... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The Supreme Court took center stage this week after it released a number of highly-anticipated decisions and Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the bench. On Tuesday, the high court vo... -
Document: Lawsuit Argues FOSTA is Unconstitutional
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
California has passed a new digital privacy law that provides new online privacy rights to consumers, according to the New York Times. The bill gives consumers a right to be informed about all of the dat... -
Where the Heck Did the Term 'Collusion' Come From?
On the June 21 episode of Preet Bharara’s podcast, “Stay Tuned with Preet,” a listener called in to ask about the legal meaning of the word “collusion.” Bharara and his two guests were quick to set the r... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A new parliamentary report claims Britain knew “beyond doubt” that the U.S. was mistreating detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay following the 9/11 attacks, according to BBC. On Thursday, t...
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