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What Is the Extent of Self-Defense by a State?
Emory University School of Law's Laurie R. Blank (who heads Emory's International Humanitarian Law Clinic) is a leading and prolific scholar and practitioner in the field of the law of armed conflict (an... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Before President Donald Trump decided to launch airstrikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after Assad, Ammar Abdulhamid examined the president’s Syria conundrum. After the strike,... -
Responding to Syria’s Chemical Weapons Attack: Legal Responsibility or Moral Obligations?
Assume for a moment that the Trump Administration determined, like its predecessor, that there was no clear Congressional authorization or international legal justification to support using military forc... -
China’s Surprising Refusal to Criticize the Legality of the U.S. Attack on Syria
In its public statements and actions, the Chinese government consistently has supported a restrictivist reading of the U.N. Charter that limits the use of military force against another state to situatio... -
What Intelligence Officials Really Mean When they Talk About ‘Unmasking’
This afternoon, we published an op-ed in the Washington Post explaining some of the basics of "unmasking" in an effort to offer a bit of context to the headlines. While it is written for a general intere... -
Twitter Drops Complaint Against DHS
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California was handed a First Amendment case yesterday morning involving the rights of Twitter users to remain anonymous if the government does not wa... -
An Addendum on the Constitutionality of Presidential War Powers
With one exception, I agree with Jack’s post on the OLC perspective on the constitutionality of President Trump’s Syria strike. Jack writes about Trump's strike: -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
CNN informs us that in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against civilians in the Syrian province of Idlib that killed more than 100 on Tuesday, President Donald Trum... -
Water Wars: He Said, Xi Said in Mar-a-Lago
Historic Summit Could Impact South China Sea for Years to Come Photo: @POTUS -
How Does the Syria Situation Stack up to the“Factors” that Justified Intervention in Kosovo?
As the Lawfare readership knows, the United States and its NATO allies relied on a series of factors in 1999 to argue that NATO’s intervention in Kosovo was legitimate. They used these factors to justif... -
The Constitutionality of the Syria Strike Through the Eyes of OLC (and the Obama Administration)
“The opinions of judges, no less than executives and publicists, often suffer the infirmity of confusing the issue of a power's validity with the cause it is invoked to promote, of confounding the perman... -
Of Course There’s Evidence Trump Colluded with Russian Intelligence
It has become a kind of mantra in the defense of Donald Trump on matters related to L’Affaire Russe that there’s no evidence, at least not yet, of “collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Russian a...
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