Latest in Highlights
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With 
-
Statement from Military Commission Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement over the weekend in advance of this week's pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 case: CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS REMARKS... -
Pentagon Confirms Death of ISIL's Leader in Libya in Already-Reported Strike, and Also a New Strike (against al Shabaab) in Somalia
In something of a coda to last night's presidential address, the Pentagon has just issued press release confirming that a previously-reported November airstrike conducted by the U.S. -
The ECHR on Russian Surveillance
Over at EJIL: Talk!, the estimable Marko Milanovic notes what he describes as a "hugely important" surveillance opinion in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. I have not yet read Rom... -
"Power Wars" in 100 Tweets
Like many Lawfare readers, I confess to being a little obsessed with Charlie Savage's new book, Power Wars. -
Converging Cyber and the Physical
Form should follow function. That's a cardinal rule of architecture and also a cardinal rule of corporate organization. Anyone who saw the video earlier this year where hackers successfully took remote... -
Cross-Border Data Requests: Response to Greg Nojeim
Editor’s note: This post also appears on Just Security. -
On the President’s Request for a Vote on an AUMF for ISIL
There were at least two points of note in President Obama’s call last night for Congress to “vote to authorize the continued use of military force against these terrorists.” First, the President did not... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) -
The President's ISIL Speech: Calling (Obliquely) for a Going Dark Dialog, and Other Highlights
The President addressed the nation tonight in an effort to explain our strategy against ISIL, to specify some steps he would like Congress to take, and to underscore some things he thinks we should not d... -
Why Israel Outlawed the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement
Editor’s Note: An increasingly important segment of Israel's Arab citizenry is tied to the Islamic Movement, a branch of which Israel banned in November. The decision was controversial: not only did it e... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Natan Sachs on Israeli Anti-solutionism.
The show this week features Natan Sachs, a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, who recently published an article in Foreign Affairs on anti-solutionism as strategy in the Israel-Palest... -
The Good Reasons to Not Charge All Terrorists With Terrorism
The FBI announced yesterday that it is investigating the San Bernardino shooting as an act of terrorism. Following the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, San Bernardino is the second ideolo...
Topics
