Since its founding, Lawfare has produced rigorous, in-depth research at the intersection of law, national security, foreign policy, and technology. In 2025, these efforts were unified under the Lawfare Research Initiative. This page collects all of Lawfare’s published research papers, along with podcast interviews featuring their authors.
On this page you will find links to view Lawfare's various research projects.
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Lawfare's Research Intiative
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Addressing Computer-Generated Child Sex Abuse Imagery: Legal Framework and Policy Implications
Computer-generated child sex abuse imagery poses significant challenges to law enforcement, including constitutional limits on criminal prosecutions. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jim Dempsey on Standards for Software Liability
What should a software liability regime look like? -
Standards for Software Liability: Focus on the Product for Liability, Focus on the Process for Safe Harbor
A proposed system intended to respond to the criticism that software security is context dependent, to minimize the cost of litigation, and to incentivize improvements in software security. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Josh Goldfoot on Cybersecurity as a Legal Problem
What does viewing cybersecurity as a social problem mean for securing the digital world? -
Cybersecurity as a Legal Problem
Law is the foundation of cybersecurity. -
Regulating Commercial Spyware
Only a binding multistakeholder legal framework can effectively regulate a legitimate and efficiently controlled market for spyware. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Asaf Lubin on Regulating Commercial Spyware
Given the increasingly pervasive use of spyware by governments to spy, how should it be regulated? -
The Developing Law of AI Regulation: A Turn to Risk Regulation
The fast-developing law of AI appears to be… risk regulation. But there is more to risk regulation’s toolkit than impact assessments. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Margot Kaminski on Regulating AI Risks
In the last few months we've seen an explosion of new AI products. And in response, we've also heard calls for far more aggressive government regulation. But what does it mean to regulate AI?
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