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Military Contractor Liability Returns to the Supreme Court
Whatever the merits of the increasing reliance upon private military contractors (PMCs) for tasks that have historically been the province of the U.S. military, one of the major issues such reliance has ... -
Readings: The Diffusion of Drone Warfare: Industrial, Infrastructural and Organizational Constraints by Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli
Political science graduate students Andrea Gilli (European Union Institute, Florence) and Mauro Gilli (Northwestern University, Evanston) have posted a new and provocative paper to SSRN--"The Diffusion o... -
What Values Does "Privacy" Protect?
The question long has confronted policymakers, advocates, scholars, technologists, and consumers. -
Allaithi v. Rumsfeld: D.C. Circuit Affirms
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit handed down its decision in Allaithi v. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Five American special operations soldiers and at least one Afghan service member were killed Monday night by friendly fire. In Southern Afghanistan's Zabul province, militants had attacked U.S. troops, w... -
Foreign Relations Law Casebook Update
Because Curtis Bradley and I have a new edition of our Foreign Relations Law casebook, we only have a slim summer update, here. It has an excerpt of B -
Unwinding Sanctions
Most discussion of economic and financial sanctions focuses naturally on the imposition of them. As Peter Feaver and Eric Lorber point out in a new Foreign Affairs article, an equally important strategic... -
New McAfee/CSIS Report on Cybercrime
I participated today in a CSIS/McAfee roll-out of their latest report on the economic impact of cybercrime. Their bottom line is that cybercrime has an annual effect of roughly $455 billion globally, wi... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Let's start with developments around the world: The Taliban have claimed responsibility for this weekend's brazen assault on Pakistan's largest international airport that has resulted in the deaths of a... -
You Can Help Us Redesign Lawfare
We are thinking about a major redesign of the Lawfare web site, and we need reader help to get this going. As our content streams have increased and diversified, the blog form has become increasingly ina... -
Why Does the Omniscient Panopticon Tolerate Glenn Greenwald?
If you believe Glenn Greenwald's new book (which I reviewed here), the NSA's appetite for gobbling up communications is unlimited. Legal controls on its behavior are trivial. Its much-repeated claim that... -
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