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Fall 2014 Lawfare Internship
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The Foreign Policy Essay: What's in a Name? Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Domestic Radicalization
Editor's Note: The war in Syria has attracted volunteers to fight from around the world, including from the United States. Although senior U.S. officials have warned of this threat, the legal foundation ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The week began with the Department of Justice’s release, under a Second Circuit court ruling, of a redacted version of an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo that outlined the government’s justification f... -
Readings: Civilian Intelligence Agencies and the Use of Armed Drones by Ian Henderson
Footnote 44 of the recently released and much-discussed OLC Awlaki memorandum is heavily redacted, but what's left reads, in part: Nor would the fact that CIA personnel would be involved in the operat... -
Global (Statutory) Habeas After <em>Aamer</em>
As my co-authors and I put the finishing touches on the 2014-15 Supplement to Aspen Publishers' National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks, I had another thought about the potential consequ... -
Readings: Through Our Glass Darkly: From 'Universal' to 'Extraterritorial'?
Apologies for Shameless Self-Promotion, but I wanted to mention an essay of mine that came out a couple of months ago as part of an excellent symposium on the work of Harvard Law School's comparative law... -
The Week That Will Be
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The Foreign Policy Essay: The Rising Threat of Revolt in Autocracies
Editor’s Note: “People power” has long captured the hearts of Western publics, with images of brave protesters standing up to tyrants renewing our faith in how extraordinary ordinary people can be. Yet e... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The news this week was dominated by the fact that U.S. Special Forces in Libya captured the man who allegedly orchestrated the September 11, 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi: A... -
Readings: “Jus Extra Bellum: Reconstructing the Ordinary, Realistic Conditions of Peace,” by Michael Jefferson Adams
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The Week That Will Be
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The Centennial of the Guns of August and the Great War
Some years ago, I happened to be in London mid-November and had lunch with a dear friend, my long-time editor at the Times Literary Supplement. I noted he wore a small felt flower--a poppy, I realized--i... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Turkey—How to Manage the Endless Syrian War
Editor’s Note: The carnage in Syria is a nightmare for the country’s neighbors, saddling them with huge numbers of refugees, riling up public opinion, and creating a risk of terrorism. Turkey, one of Ame... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Renewed trouble in Iraq dominated this week’s headlines. Jack remarked on the growing threats to U.S. interests and considered how we might try to combat Islamist terror groups. -
Statement by the President on Iraq
Ben posted the video of his remarks and the short Q and A that followed. -
President Obama to Issue a Statement on Iraq
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Readings: Can Non-State Actors Mount an Armed Attack? by Kimberly N. Trapp
Among the issues separating the American understanding of international law regarding transnational non-state actor armed groups from that of the "international community" (or at least an influential and... -
House Hearings This Morning on FBI Oversight and Bergdahl Exchange
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Readings: The Diffusion of Drone Warfare: Industrial, Infrastructural and Organizational Constraints by Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli
Political science graduate students Andrea Gilli (European Union Institute, Florence) and Mauro Gilli (Northwestern University, Evanston) have posted a new and provocative paper to SSRN--"The Diffusion o... -
Foreign Relations Law Casebook Update
Because Curtis Bradley and I have a new edition of our Foreign Relations Law casebook, we only have a slim summer update, here. It has an excerpt of B
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