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Foreign Relations Law Casebook Supplement
Here is the summer 2015 supplement for my casebook (with Curtis Bradley), Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2014). This supplement contains, among other things, an excerpt of (and Not... -
David E. Pozen on "Privacy-Privacy Tradeoffs"
Readers who found engaging my recent paper with Jodie Liu, "The Privacy Paradox: The Privacy Benefits of Privacy Threats," will certainly want to check out a new draft paper by Columbia Law School profes... -
The Week that Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, June 29th at 9 am: The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosts a discussion on Examining the Anti-ISIS Strategy with Stephe... -
Understanding the U.S. Military’s Morale “Crisis”
Editor’s Note: The U.S. Army and the military as a whole seem to have fallen on hard times: polls, studies, and tragedies like suicides and drug abuse all suggest an institution in crisis. Raphael Cohen ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Monday saw the release of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry report on last summer’s conflict in Gaza. Ben provided us with links to the report and the accompanying press r... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, June 22nd at 12 pm: The Wilson Center will host U.S. Senator Christopher S. Murphy (D-CT), who will outline A New Foreign Policy for Ame... -
Why Arab States are Bad at Counterinsurgency
Editor’s Note: The United States and its allies outsource most of their counterterrorism. Allies like Egypt and Jordan and frenemies like Pakistan do much of the heavy lifting, using their armies and int... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
A U.S. airstrike in Libya conducted Sunday may have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a former al Qaeda leader responsible for the 2013 seizure of an Algerian gas plant that resulted in the deaths of 38 hostages. -
The Week That Will Be
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The Limits of Islamic State Expansion
Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s latest victories in Iraq have been met by teeth-gnashing in Iraq and hand-wringing in Washington. U.S. military officials expressed disgust and disappointment with the ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Monday, Lawfare readers awoke to find the new and improved Lawfare site. Bobby, Jack, and Ben introduced the site, and Ben announced the beginning of Omphalos, a Lawfare subsidiary site devoted to int... -
A Book Reception for "Speaking The Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law"
The Hoover Institution's D.C. office and Lawfare are having a reception for our recent book, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law (Hoover Institution Press Publ... -
Lawfare and the IDF Lawyers
Willy Stern has a very interesting essay at the Weekly Standard about “Dabla,” the Israeli Defense Force’s elite operational lawyers. -
New Issue of Harvard National Security Journal
The Harvard National Security Journal’s spring issue, published last week, may be of interest to readers of Lawfare. It has four major articles. Antonia Chayes previews her forthcoming book, Borderles... -
“State Opinio Juris and International Humanitarian Law Pluralism” by Michael N. Schmitt and Sean Watts
Mike Schmitt is well-known to many, probably most, regular readers of Lawfare—eminent and prolific scholar of the law of armed conflict (or international humanitarian law); driving force behind the Talli... -
“Black Holes and Open Secrets: The Impact of Covert Action on International Law” by Alexandra H. Perina
53 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law No. 3, p. 507 (2015). Available on SSRN. The status of covert activities by a government in international law is an under-discussed topic in legal scholarship, e... -
The Week that Will Be
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Iran has a Bigger Problem than the West: Its Sunni Neighbors
Editor’s Note: The United States would like to compartmentalize the Iran nuclear deal, continuing to oppose Iran’s subversion in the Middle East and hostility to Israel while assuring regional allies tha... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Tuesday, the USA Freedom Act passed the Senate, was signed by the President, and became law. However, the enactment came almost two full days after key provisions of the USA Patriot Act had expired---...
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