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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Folks, there's more to life than guessing what the future King of England will be named. There's the week that was! Ritika completed a significant research project comparing various studies' approaches... -
Ben and Daniel Byman Launch Report Today
We're a little late to the party on this one, but Ben and fellow Brookings scholar Daniel Byman will discuss their lengthy report "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad"... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, spoke at Brookings on Friday about surveillance law. Jane Chong and I had a great time previewing and then recapping the oral ar... -
ODNI GC Bob Litt Speaking at Brookings
Bob Litt, general counsel to the DNI, is speaking at the Brookings Institution at this hour on "Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection." His prepared remarks ar... -
Readings: Kevin Jon Heller Watches "Crossing Lines" for Its Imaginary International Criminal Law
"Crossing Lines" is a new NBC cop series this season that features ... well, here's the plot description at Wikipedia: Based in The Hague, a fictionalized version of the International Criminal Court's sp... -
Robert Litt at Brookings Tomorrow
This event tomorrow morning is sure to be timely and of great interest to Lawfarers in the area: Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection An Address by General C... -
DNI General Counsel to Speak at Brookings Tomorrow
Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, will speak at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Brookings Institution's Saul-Zilkha auditorium. Unsurprisingly given recent events, Litt's ... -
IHL and IHRL Discussions at Oxford this Week
I thought readers might be interested in knowing about a workshop that will take place later this week at Oxford, under the joint sponsorship of Oxford's Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and ... -
Egypt and Beyond: Military Intervention and the Democratic Process
A Brookings event from the other day, hosted by the other Brookings Wittes. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Laura Dean continued her online Cairo diary, chronicling the goings-on in Egypt. Read all her posts here. A lot of legal fireworks went off at Guantanamo this week: U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kess... -
Readings: Anthony Dworkin on "Drones and Targeted Killing: Defining a European Position"
The transatlantic dialog on security matters often has a frustrating ships-passing-in-the-night quality to it. So I was interested to see this unusually constructive and valuable policy paper on drones a... -
An Addendum from Nathan Myhrvold on Cyber
Nathan Myhrvold writes in with the following addendum to his paper, "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action," which we published the other day: In the days since Ben posted my paper, I've been asked a fa... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
It was a somewhat light week for us here at Lawfare---though an exceedingly tumultuous one, obviously, for Egypt. We covered the latter's unrest and coup by means of an exciting and experimental feature... -
Nathan Myhrvold on "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action" (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
A few weeks ago, I found myself at dinner in Seattle with a man named Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, for readers who have never heard of him, is the founder and CEO of a company called Intellectual Ventures. -
Laura Dean's Cairo Diary
This is an experiment---one that pushes the boundaries of what Lawfare is all about: We seem to have a correspondent in Cairo. For those readers who haven't noticed, Egypt is exploding once again. I'm n... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Lawfare topics took a backseat in the news this week, what with the Supreme Court's attention-grabbing week. The justices were too busy with same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act, and affirmative acti... -
A Lawfare Thank You: Michael Broukhim
Only a small number of Lawfare readers have ever heard of Michael Broukhim, but he has played an important role in the development of this site. Broukhim is an internet entrepreneur who was, when we were... -
Full Video of ABA Panel on NSA Surveillance at the Newseum
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ABA Standing Committee Event on NSA Surveillance and Leaks
This afternoon, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security will present a panel discussion entitled "NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts and Fiction." The event will be hos... -
Supporting Lawfare
We are pleased to announce that over the last few weeks, Lawfare---which began as a collaborative project of its three founders with no formal organizational structure---has become a non-profit corporati...
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