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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Protests in Hong Kong continue to dominate headlines as the battle between security forces and students spirals into another day. According to the Washington Post, a high-stakes confrontation between pro... -
The Need for a New Agency to Regulate Robots
Joshua Bleiberg has a post on the Brookings Tech Tank blog summarizing Ryan Calo's new paper, which argues for a Federal Robotics Commission to broker the regulatory and legal issues new robotic technolo... -
Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security
Permit me a small amount of self-promotion, with apologies. But ABA Publishing has, today, released a new book, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security, of which I... -
Folk International Law and Syrian Airstrikes
Earlier this year, I published an article called "Folk International Law," in which I argued that there were many unappreciated and little understood costs to the convergence of LOAC and international hu... -
How a Blonde Tattooed Texas Girl Became an ISIS Twitter Star
Last Monday, I had 60 followers on Twitter. Today, I have more than 4,300. Not to brag or anything, but that's more than Benjamin Wittes; more than Bobby Chesney; more than Jack Goldsmith; more than my b... -
Confusing the Issues in <em>al Bahlul</em>
For the two people still following the exchange between me and Peter Margulies over the bottom-side briefing in the al Bahlul D.C. -
Readings: Daniel Byman and Jeremy Shapiro Warn Against Hyping the Threat of Returning Jihadists
My Brookings colleagues Daniel Byman (who is, among other things, Lawfare's Foreign Policy Editor) and Jeremy Shapiro (who is, among other things, a demon with a barbecue and a slab of meat), have a new ... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #36: An Interview with Admiral David Simpson
Our guest today is Admiral David Simpson, Chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. Admiral Simpson has more than 20 years of Information and Communications Technology experience su... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first case of Ebola in the United States. A man who recently traveled on a commercial airplane from Liberia to Texas has been diagn... -
Reply to Steve on <em>al Bahlul</em>, the “Law of War,” and Article III
How much deference should Congress receive in determining when military commissions are necessary incidents of war? That’s the real nub of the dispute between Steve and amici arguing to the D.C. Circuit... -
Judge Kaplan Accepts Adel Abdul Bary Guilty Plea
Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times has the scoop on the plea bargain, about which U.S. -
The Significance of Harold Koh's Legal Defense of the Administration's Interpretation of the 2001 AUMF
Harold’s Koh’s grudging defense of the domestic legal basis for President’s Obama’s use of force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is important. It adds little new to other defenses of the Pre...
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