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Why President Obama Should Seek Formal Congressional Support If He Ramps Up Force Against the Islamic State After Paris
The gruesome events in Paris could strengthen President Obama’s domestic war powers authority under Article II in two ways. -
The International Criminal Court and Power Politics
The recent appearance on Lawfare of my American University colleague David Bosco (in the roundtable on US Navy operations in the South China Sea) prompts His Serenity to fix his lapse in failing to mark ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Bobby alerted us last night to the horrifying series of attacks that occurred across Paris on Friday evening. A series of explosions and armed attacks left at least 128 dead across the city and injured h... -
Terrorist Attacks in Paris Tonight
Anyone reading this site probably already knows about the horror unfolding tonight in Paris. But just in case not: Dozens are dead at multiple locations, and there appears to be a Beslan/Mumbai-style h... -
What Does the NDAA Say About Cyber? (Bonus Feature: The Return of the EMP Commission)
With the President supposedly poised to sign the NDAA FY'16 notwithstanding its GTMO transfer restrictions (subject, no doubt, to a signing statement hinting at an override option), it's a good time to t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Not two days after launching an offensive to retake the city from ISIS, Kurdish forces backed by U.S. airpower and Yazidi fighters entered the town of Sinjar today and announced its liberation from Islam... -
Rational Security: The "Incubus of Plague" Edition
This week on the show, we go all CNN on you and talk plane crashes: Will we ever know how a Russian airliner fell from the sky in Egypt? Does it matter or does it only matter what Vladimir Putin thinks b... -
Water Wars: Calling for Calm amid South China Sea Storm, Xi Unleashes Diplomatic Offensive
Xi Jinping and Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi (Photo: Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images) -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Backed by U.S.-coalition air power and thousands of Yazidi fighters, Kurdish forces have launched an offensive to retake Sinjar from the Islamic State. The New York Times writes that “as many as 7,500 Ku... -
Indonesia Hints at South China Sea Litigation
Could we be witnessing a legal cascade in the South China Sea? Most states with claims have thus far eschewed formal legal challenges to China, but that could be changing. In the wake of the Philippines'... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #88: An Interview with Adam Kozy and Johannes Gilger
Where the hell are the FTC, Silicon Valley, and CDT when human rights and privacy are on the line? If the United States announced that it had been installing malware on 2% of all the laptops that crosse... -
Congressional Oversight of US Foreign Relations and National Security?
Executive power is on the rise, a familiar argument runs, and necessarily at the expense of Congressional authority. Linda L. Fowler, professor emerita in government at Dartmouth College, examines anothe...
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