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How the ICC Selects Its Cases
The ICC prosecutor’s office (OTP) has released a new draft policy paper, which includes material relevant for understanding how the office could conduct sensitive future investigations. Specifically, the... -
Taking Stock of the Snoopers' Charter: The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Bill
The United Kingdom is considering its largest overhaul of laws governing electronic surveillance in 15 years. On March 1, the U.K. Home Secretary, Theresa May, introduced the Investigatory Powers Bill, a... -
Terror and Jauntiness
Le Monde in Paris ran a story a few weeks ago by Luc Leroux reporting on a fifteen-year-old boy in Marseille who attacked a Jew in the street with a machete, and one element of the story cries out for co... -
The Week That Will Be
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Hot Commodities: What Comes Down...
The rollercoaster ride continues as oil prices reached their highest point in 2016 at $40 per barrel this week — before slipping right back down again. -
Sanctioning the Dragon: Using Statecraft to Shape Chinese Behavior
Editor's Note: Sanctions on China are again in the air as policymakers look on Beijing's provocative regional policies with dismay. Although many experts argue that sanctions would achieve little and mig... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Lisa Monaco on America’s Counterterrorism Strategy against ISIS and Al Qaeda
This week, the president’s Homeland Security Advisor, Lisa Monaco, made news by announcing that the White House will release long sought data on the U.S. drone program. An important development, no doubt... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes shared a Trans-Atlantic town hall dialogue he participated in with Germans on data privacy. Daniel Severson flagged how France has moved to require decryption capabilities in a counterte... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday, news broke that an Islamic State defector has been disclosing inside information about the terrorist group’s inner bureaucracy. The New York Times shares that German authorities have obtained ... -
Water Wars: Flexing Muscles, U.S. Deploys Great Green Fleet to South China Sea
In a symbolic show of force, the United States dispatched “a small armada” to patrol the disputed waters of the South China Sea, according to the Navy Times. -
Rational Security: The "117 Experts Can't Be Wrong" Edition
Republican national security experts declare Donald Trump unfit to be president. Who actually actually advises candidate Trump and who would advise President Trump? And President Obama pulls back the cur... -
ACLU Takes First Step Towards Prepublication Review Reform
In December, Oona Hathaway and I wrote an op-ed and series of posts on the broken pre-publication review process.
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