Our guest this week is Orin Kerr, professor of law at George Washington University and well-known scholar in computer crime law and internet surveillance.  Orin is our second return guest, and he demonst...

It’s already made the headlines, but earlier this week, Matthew Olsen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, delivered a threat assessment of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria at the Brooki...

Wow, this is really impressive. On a podcast called "Hardcore History," a fellow named Dan Carlin is doing a lengthy series on World War I. The episodes run between three and four hours each, and Carlin ...

We’re back!  After a much needed hiatus, during which we shared wilderness paths with bison, woke up to wolf cries, and celebrated the value of ibuprofen, the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast is back on the net.

Here at Lawfare, we try to spot critical legal issues impacting national security before they're really upon us . . . and eating our brains.

News broke yesterday that the Russian military has moved artillery units inside of Ukraine and that Russian troops are actively using them against Ukranian forces---a move with dramatic escalatory potent...

The Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast is on hiatus in August, but we’ve brought it back for a special appearance – a debate over Senator Patrick Leahy’s version of the USA Freedom Act sponsored by the Federalist ...

The Lawfare Podcast is at the beach this week. We can neither confirm nor deny that we will be back next week.

Washington was abuzz this week as more than 50 African leaders were in town for the first U.S.-Africa Summit. Yesterday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Somalia, spoke at Brookings on the future ...

One of the great things about working at the Brookings Institution---and there are many of them---is access to a remarkable range of people knowledgable about whatever happens to be going on in the world...

Wow, that was quick. I haven’t even turned on the air conditioning at home yet, and already we’ve done the last podcast of the summer.  The Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast will go on hiatus for August and retur...

Our guest this week is noted computer law guru Orin Kerr, and the podcast is a deep dive into technology and law.

It was a big week at the D.C. Circuit, which handed down the en banc decision in the Al Bahlul military commission case. It's a complicated decision: a mess of a procedural history, lots of separate opin...

Our guest this week is Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), David Medine.  We do a deep dive into the 702 program and the PCLOB’s report recommending several changes to it.

As the election crisis in Afghanistan comes to a head, all eyes---or some of them, anyway---are once again on the future of Afghan democracy. But the United States's history in the region extends back mu...

Our guest this week is David Heyman, who recently completed a tour as DHS’s Assistant Secretary for Policy (my old job).  David has had a long and productive career in homeland security, in government, a...