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"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." —Dick the Butcher, Henry IV, Part 2.
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From March 30-April 1, 2017, the Yale Center for Global Legal Challenges and the Yale Office of International Affairs are sponsoring the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum, a two-day program that will focus on ...
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When it comes to the Islamic State, who doesn’t want to “bomb the shit out of them,” as our President-elect so eloquently put it? The group is violent, aggressive, and almost cartoonishly evil: torture, ...
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Editor’s Note: There is one bright spot in the darkness of the Middle East: the U.S. relationship with various Kurdish groups. In Iraq and Syria in particular, the Kurds seem the bulwark of U.S. efforts ...
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Last Wednesday, Senator Tim Kaine devoted his first Senate speech since the election to the AUMF and the war against ISIL. The occasion for the speech was the death Naval CPO Scott Dayton, a Virginian w...
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Earlier this week, the New York Times published a story by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, and Mark Mazzetti informing us that the Obama administration had changed its interpretation of the 2001 Authorizat...
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Benjamin Wittes offered a defense of libertarian panic as a response to the Trump administration.
He also shared journalist Jonathan Rauch’s query for input from Lawfare readers concerning how to identi...
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In a diplomatic bombshell that could rock Sino-American relations, President-elect Donald Trump spoke with President Tsai Ying-wen of Taiwan on Friday.
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Has Lawfare changed? It turns out quite a few people think so, judging both by the private messages that have been coming to the founders of the site (me, Jack, and Ben) and by the post that Brett Max K...
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine General James Mattis as his Secretary of Defense, the Washington Post reports. Commentators on both sides of the aisle have hailed Mattis as a poten...
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Earlier this month, after more than a year of debate and amendments, the British Parliament passed the Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill), a law that authorizes surveillance powers virtually unprecedent...
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In late October, the EU lifted sanctions on Bank Saderat Iran and its London subsidiary, Bank Saderat PLC.
