Introducing La Revue de Press Juridique
Lawfare is pleased to welcome to the blogosphere a new francophone blog focusing on international humanitarian law, entitled La Revue de Press Juridique, It is the first francophone blog of its kind, and we're thrilled to have played a small part in the founder's inspiration.
A message from the blog's creator (and avid Lawfare reader), Julien Eche, is included below:
Introducing La Revue de Presse Juridique. The number of international humanitarian law issues facing public administration
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Lawfare is pleased to welcome to the blogosphere a new francophone blog focusing on international humanitarian law, entitled La Revue de Press Juridique, It is the first francophone blog of its kind, and we're thrilled to have played a small part in the founder's inspiration.
A message from the blog's creator (and avid Lawfare reader), Julien Eche, is included below:
Introducing La Revue de Presse Juridique. The number of international humanitarian law issues facing public administrations and militaries calls for tailored information blogs. Last week, a new Website, La Revue de Presse Juridique, enriched the active law-related blogosphere. La Revue intends to develop dialogue and cooperation between researchers and officials engaged in international humanitarian law practice. Specifications offer both French and English-language news articles and academic research papers. Two reasons justify the creation of this new blog. Due to the expanding scope and sophistication of national and international laws, the first reason refers to the democratic standard of dispelling legal myths. In this, La Revue pays tribute to the Lawfare blog and its diligent efforts to promote international law and security concerns. The creation of La Revue was originally prompted by the Lawfare blog’s resounding success in showing how helpful it is to make security policies and legal affairs understandable. The trade-off function between public officials, researchers and citizens can be endorsed only thanks to the internet support and the domino effect generated by blogs like Lawfare. The second reason calls for the rise of new legal practices. The use of law, and specially international law, as a policy tool addresses the role of legal advisers not only as safeguards but also as visionary leaders in hashing out defence and security strategies. In other words, as the Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, the first to lay the foundations of the concept of lawfare, wrote in his masterpiece The Prince (1515): “There are two forms of political combat, one using law, the other using force.The former befits men and the latter beasts”. What La Revue de Presse Juridique probably endeavour to do is to reconcile men and political combat. The author La Revue was initially a weekly paper-based press release published by the legal services of the French Air Operations Command without engaging any official position. La Revue is edited by Julien Eche, French Air Force legal adviser and graduate of the Paris Institute for Political Sciences. Contact: julien.eche.rpj@gmail.com
Raffaela Wakeman is a Senior Director at In-Q-Tel. She started her career at the Brookings Institution, where she spent five years conducting research on national security, election reform, and Congress. During this time she was also the Associate Editor of Lawfare. From there, Raffaela practiced law at the U.S. Department of Defense for four years, advising her clients on privacy and surveillance law, cybersecurity, and foreign liaison relationships. She departed DoD in 2019 to join the Majority Staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she oversaw the Intelligence Community’s science and technology portfolios, cybersecurity, and surveillance activities. She left HPSCI in May 2021 to join IQT.
Raffaela received her BS and MS in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, where she was recognized for her commitment to public service with the Joyce Chiang Memorial Award. While at the Department of Defense, she was the inaugural recipient of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s General Counsel Award for exhibiting the highest standards of leadership, professional conduct, and integrity.
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