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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Anthony Rutkowski: International Signals Intelligence Law: Provisions and History (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Lawfare is pleased to announced the publication of a new paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: International Signals Intelligence Law: Provisions and History by Tony Rutkowski. From the abstract: -
Philip B. Heymann: An Essay on Domestic Surveillance (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Lawfare is pleased to announce the publication of a new -- and timely -- paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: An Essay on Domestic Surveillance, by Philip B. Heymann, law professor at Harvard Law ... -
Nathan Wood: The Ferguson Consensus is Wrong: What Counterinsurgency in Iraq & Afghanistan Teaches Us About Police Militarization and Community Policing (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
For interested readers: the latest installment of the Lawfare Research Paper Series. -
Jonah Force Hill: The Growth of Data Localization Post-Snowden (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Ever since the Edward Snowden revelations began, countries outraged by U.S. intelligence practices have been batting around the idea of forcing countries to store data on their citizens within those coun... -
Russell Wheeler: The Changing Composition of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and What If Anything To Do About It (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
The question of the composition of the FISA Court---politically, demographically, and in terms of professional background---has arisen periodically throughout the last year. It has given rise to news cov... -
Joel Brenner: "Mr. Wemmick's Condition; Or, Privacy as a Disposition, Complete with Skeptical Observations Regarding Various Regulatory Enthusiasms" (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
The War on Law Reviews continues on many fronts: land, sea, air, and particularly in the cyber domain, where today I am pleased to offer the next paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: Joel Brenner’... -
David Kris: “On the Bulk Collection of Tangible Things” (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
My fellow Americans, we have achieved a major victory in the War on Law Reviews. I’m thrilled to announce the next paper in Lawfare Research Paper Series: David Kris’s “On the Bulk Collection of Tangible... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #41: Nathan Myhrvold on Strategic Terrorism
Back in July, we published the second paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series, an essay entitled "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action" by Nathan Myhrvold. -
Steven G. Bradbury on "Understanding the NSA Programs" (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
I'm pleased to announce that the third installment of the Lawfare Research Paper Series is now available. By Steven. G.
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