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Oral Argument Recap: Friday's Argument in ACLU v. Clapper
This past Friday, District Court Judge William H. Pauley III, of the Southern District of New York, heard oral argument in the American Civil Liberties Union’s ("ACLU") challenge to the government’s bulk... -
Feedback Requested: Emails from Lawfare
We are in the process of upgrading our email subscription system, and would like your feedback on the structure of future emails that collect the previous day's posts. If you subscribe to our daily emai... -
More on UN Detention Procedures for Military Operations
About a month ago, I asked what had happened to the UN’s effort to develop a set of standard operating procedures to govern detentions that arise during the course of UN operations. It appears that such... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
It's all about Iran this news cycle. -
Iran Nuclear Agreement as a Modus Vivendi
Over at opinio juris, Duncan Hollis has an interesting post about whether the agreement reached with Iran on early Sunday morning is legally binding. (I do disagree with Duncan’s title: the “new U.S.-Ir... -
Clive Walker on "Deportation With Assurances: UK Experience and Angst"
Clive Walker of the University of Leeds writes in with the following update on national security law news from Britain: -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #49: A Panel at NYU on "Law and Strategy in the Executive Branch"
On Tuesday, NYU's Center on Law and Security held a day-long conference on “Law and Strategy in an Era of Evolving Threats.” I have already posted the video of the sessions, but one of them, in particula... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Afshon Ostovar on "Seven Things to Know About Iran’s Revolutionary Guards"
A few hours ago, the United States and five world powers reached an agreement with Iran to freeze and even roll back aspects of its nuclear program. Iran pops up on Lawfare from time to time, in part bec... -
Introducing "The Foreign Policy Essay"
As I mentioned the other day, I have asked my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman to curate a new feature on Lawfare: A weekly essay, to run on Sundays, on foreign and military affairs topics of interest to... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
NOCON//REL TO ALL: Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper declassified a trove of documents pertaining to pen register/trap-and-trace (PR/TT) collection pursuant to section 401 of FISA and b... -
The November NSA Trove VI: More Congressional Stuff
The next items in our November NSA Trove, like those summarized in a prior post, focus on congressional oversight. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday came news that the United States has been collecting British citizens' phone and email information. The reactions followed quickly. Sir Malcom Rifkind, chair of the parliamentary intelligence a...
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