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Flynn, FISA, and FARA: On Foreign Principals and Agents of Foreign Powers
Yesterday, news broke that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had been paid $530,000 for his work lobbying for a Turkish firm with connections to that country’s government during the presiden... -
A Programming Note on This Week’s Military Commissions Coverage
Lawfare would like to apologize for the delay in our military commissions coverage this week. As our readers know, we rely on transcripts provided by the Office of Military Commissions to provide our cov... -
Hoover National Security and Law Associate
The Hoover Institution is looking for its next National Security and Law Associate, the position currently occupied by Jane Chong. The work includes extensive writing and editing for Lawfare. The job ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Politico tells us that yesterday, FBI Director James Comey briefed the “Gang of Eight” on Trump’s claims that former President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap against him, including top Republicans an... -
Rethinking the Role of Human Rights in the International Refugee Regime
Among the many legal issues raised by the President’s January 27, 2017 executive order (EO) temporarily halting entry into the United States of citizens from seven primarily Muslim countries, including w... -
"H" is for High Technology Cooperation, Not H-1B Visas
Last Friday, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services announced that it would be suspending the expedited processing of H-1B visas beginning on April 3rd. Though this news has long been pushed off the front... -
Water Wars: Sun and Sand in the South China Sea
Progress on a Code of Conduct, as China’s Tourism Plans Move Forward -
Rational Security: The "Tapp My Wires" Edition
Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of tapping his phones, and all hell breaks loose. WikiLeaks releases thousands of pages of information on CIA hacking tools. And North Korea launches missiles that may o... -
The Israeli Anti-BDS Travel Ban in (Legal) Context
On Monday, the Israeli Knesset passed an amendment that imposes an entry ban on foreign nationals who have publically called to boycott Israel, or act on behalf of organizations that have done so. This i... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United States may deploy up to 1,000 troops to Kuwait as a “reserve” force in the fight against ISIS, Reuters reports. 6,000 U.S. troops are currently deployed in the anti-ISIS effort in Iraq and Syr... -
International Law & Nineteenth-Century American Empire
PDF version Matthew Waxman reviews Deborah A. Rosen’s Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015) and Benjamin Allen Coates’s Legalist Empire: International La... -
FBI Can Withhold Sensitive FOIA Processing Records, DC District Court Rules
Documents the FBI creates when it processes a FOIA request can be withheld from future FOIA requests in certain sensitive cases, D.C. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled on Monday.
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