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Readings: Ashley Deeks on Domestic (International) Humanitarian Law
Ashley Deeks (UVA and Lawfare) has posted a book chapter to SSRN, "Domestic Humanitarian Law: Developing the Law of War in Domestic Courts," which will appear in D. Jinks, J. Maogoto, S. Solomon (eds.), ... -
Thoughts About the Obama Administration’s Counterterrorism Paradigm in Light of the Al-Liby and Ikrima Operations
Mary DeRosa and Marty Lederman, both of whom were senior national security lawyers in the Obama administration, have a helpful if somewhat hopeful post at Just Security on the significance of the recent ... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #44: Matt Apuzzo on Najibullah Zazi and NSA Surveillance Programs
Bruce Riedel, Director of the Intelligence Project, hosted Matt Apuzzo at the Brookings Institution for a discussion of his new book “Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s ... -
Readings: Ashley Deeks, "The Observer Effect"
UVA's (and Lawfare's own) Ashley Deeks has posted a new article to SSRN, "The Observer Effect: National Security Litigation, Policy Changes, and Judicial Deference," forthcoming (November 2013) in Fordha... -
Update in NYT v. Department of Justice
Here is a quick update in New York Times v. Department of Justice. That's the Second Circuit case regarding the DOJ's responses to Freedom of Information Act requests, filed by the New York Times and Am... -
NSA Fallout Continues -- Internet Governance May Change
One of the most significant questions in cyberspace is the long term governance of the domain. For years the United States has had an influential role in that governance (mostly, in my view, to the bene... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
The big news heading into this week was that the U.S. conducted two nearly-simultaneous raids in Africa. -
SDNY Rejects Bid to Appoint Defense Counsel for Al-Liby
Politico's Josh Gerstein reports: A federal judge has rejected an attempt by defense lawyers to challenge the Obama administration's decision to hold alleged Al Qaeda member Abu Anas Al-Libi aboard a U.S... -
Bad Code: Part II
On a technical level, building secure software is really hard---but that's an argument for, not against, an intelligently designed liability regime. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The O.P.C.W. was founded in 1977 and was recently deployed to Syria after chem... -
German Intelligence Admits Email Spying
So reports the Wall Street Journal. As one of my colleagues commented "is anyone surprised?" Here's the lede: Germany’s foreign intelligence service acknowledged tapping data flowing through a key Fran... -
Obama and Alexander, Bush and Tenet
Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a piece suggesting that folks at NSA feel abandoned by President Obama's failure to defend the agency aggressively: Gen. Keith Alexander and his senior leadership...
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