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Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Kevin Kelly
Our guest for episode 119 is Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will Shape our Future. Kevin and I share... -
VICE's Vice: Snowden Scoop Promises Fire, Doesn't Even Muster Smoke
Over the weekend, VICE published a story entitled “Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal.” If you haven’t read it, don’t bother. By its incendiary headline, t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi won’t be leaving Washington empty-handed. The Wall Street Journal reports that President Barack Obama and Modi announced on Tuesday that Westinghouse Electric will he... -
The Role of the Army: Yaalon's Resignation and the Ethics of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel is still roiling over Benjamin Netanyahu’s sudden replacement of Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, a former general, with Avigdor Lieberman, a politician with no serious military experience and an un... -
Needles in Haystacks: The Coming Threat to Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Agreements
Over the past fifteen years, an uneasy trans-Atlantic equilibrium between U.S. law enforcement and security agencies’ collection of personal information, sometimes on a bulk basis, and European privacy p... -
Europeans in the South China Sea
At Foreign Policy, Keith Johnson and Dan De Luce report on a new European pushback against China's South China Sea policies: France has thrown its hat into the acrimonious South China Sea debate, calli... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
As U.S.-backed rebels close in on Raqqa and Iraqi military forces move into Fallujah, many of the Islamic State’s foreign recruits are looking to leave instead of fight. The Wall Street Journal reports t... -
6/3 Session: The Rules Are the Rules
It’s Friday morning, and we’ve established that the defendants know their rights to be present but all save Ramzi Binalshibh and Ammar al Baluchi have declined. -
Trump and the Powers of the American Presidency (Part II)
It was a few years ago, on a panel at American University’s Washington College of Law, that I heard Brad Berenson—who served in the White House Counsel’s office under President Bush—make an arresting sta... -
Assessing Complementarity in Palestine
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released a detailed argument that International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda should seek a full investigation of the situation in Palestine. The prosec... -
6/2 Session: Detainee Testifies about Gitmo Conditions
The commission is called to order Thursday morning with all attorneys and the defendants accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks in attendance. The morning session will be dedicated to hearing testimon... -
Donald Trump and the Justice Department: An Update
Recently, I wrote this piece warning of what Donald Trump might do to the U.S. Department of Justice. It contained the following:
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