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LIVE: Brookings Host Vice President Joe Biden
At 12:15 pm, Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks at Brookings on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its implications for European security. You can watch the discussion below or follow ... -
Remembering Dan Meltzer
I want to add briefly to Jack's note and pay tribute to Dan Meltzer, who died Sunday. I had the privilege of working with Dan when he served as Deputy White Counsel under President Obama and then as a m... -
Daniel Meltzer, R.I.P.
My colleague and friend Dan Meltzer passed away Sunday night after a long battle with cancer. Here is what Dean Martha Minow wrote: Colleagues, it is with profound sadness that I write to let you know th... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, May 25th: Happy Memorial Day! -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Harnessing Militia Power—Lessons of the Iraqi National Guard
Editor’s Note: National governments seem to be failing throughout the Middle East. The United States, unfortunately, does not usually have the luxury of waiting until a strong government returns, and bui... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Harnessing Militia Power—Lessons of the Iraqi National Guard
Editor’s Note: National governments seem to be failing throughout the Middle East. The United States, unfortunately, does not usually have the luxury of waiting until a strong government returns, and bui... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the battle over the USA Freedom Act heated up in the Senate, Harley Geiger of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) outlined just how much would a sunset of Section 215 change the surveillance... -
Hard Financial Crisis Choices
Providing physical security to its citizens is undoubtedly the core function of the state. As readers of Lawfare well know, it is hard work to figure out how that security function should be reconciled w... -
Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security MOOC
The University of Adelaide has a free new MOOC called Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security that is taught by Melissa de Zwart, Dale Stephens, and Rebecca LaForgia. The web page and registration can be f... -
The Week That Will Be
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Where is Al Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri?
Editor’s Note: After 9/11 Ayman al-Zawahiri became the face of Al Qaeda, giving speeches and sending out videos to guide the now-scattered jihadist flock. And of course after Bin Ladin’s death Zawahiri's... -
"Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security," by Gregory Koblentz
Published by Cornell UP (Paperback 2011) Reviewed by Matthew Sprinkel -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in ACLU v. Clapper that the NSA’s bulk collection of telephony metadata went beyond the powers granted by Section 215 of the Patriot Act. As you might... -
"@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex," by Shane Harris
Books reviewed in this essay: @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, by Shane Harris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014) -
"Deadly Metal Rain: The Legality of Flechette Weapons in International Law," by Eitan Barak
Published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (2011) Reviewed by His Serenity, The Book Review Editor -
The Normalization of Foreign Relations Law
Is foreign relations law really so different from the law governing domestic affairs? Should it be? We have a new article out this week in the Harvard Law Review that engages these questions in the conte... -
The Week That Will Be
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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 ... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The Danger of Politicized Intelligence after a Nuclear Deal
Editor’s Note: Part of the job of intelligence officials is to give bad news to policymakers. But should officials at times soften their assessments or otherwise pick their battles in order to maintain t... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Thursday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the NSA’s bulk telephone metadata collection program by ruling that the program wasn’t authorized by the language of Section 215 of the Patrio...
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