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Although the Federal Aviation Administration has been tasked by Congress to come up with regulations for the use of drones in domestic airspace, it is running late on that mandate. Even small, light mo...
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Don't forget to register for this year's event, scheduled for October 31-November 1 at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington.
Here are all the details, including the agenda and list of speakers.
23rd Annual Re...
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Ashley Deeks (UVA and Lawfare) has posted a book chapter to SSRN, "Domestic Humanitarian Law: Developing the Law of War in Domestic Courts," which will appear in D. Jinks, J. Maogoto, S. Solomon (eds.), ...
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UVA's (and Lawfare's own) Ashley Deeks has posted a new article to SSRN, "The Observer Effect: National Security Litigation, Policy Changes, and Judicial Deference," forthcoming (November 2013) in Fordha...
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The big news heading into this week was that the U.S. conducted two nearly-simultaneous raids in Africa.
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We are, once again, looking for an undergraduate or a recent graduate to intern with us. We will be accepting applications until November 1, 2013.
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Details are still emerging on the two terror raids conducted by American commandos this weekend, giving the media plenty to compare and contrast. Peter Baker and David Sanger of the New York Times charac...
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It was a prolific week for Lawfare.
This week we launched a new project with The New Republic, called Security States.
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Despite the government shutdown, the Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with its planned hearing on FISA.
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The government may be shut down, but as Paul noted earlier, Security States---our new project with the New Republic---is open for business.
We will make a practice, as Paul did this morning, of linking ...
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I am very excited to announce that tomorrow, we are launching a project with our friends at the New Republic to bring Lawfare content and writers to the New Republic's web site. Astute readers may have n...
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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...
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A rather important hearing was held Thursday, in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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More than 2.5 million service members have served in Iraq or Afghanistan over the past 12 years of war. A number of terrific memoirs and histories have been written about their efforts in war.
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Here is the press release from the committee's website :
Washington—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) today announced the commit...
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Given today’s launch of Just Security (of which I’m one of the co-editors-in-chief), I thought it worth saying a word or two about me and Lawfare, lest anyone get the wrong idea about the new project, or...
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Big week down at Guantanamo. Wells was up to Fort Meade, covering this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al, the 9/11 trial.
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A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Joost R. Hiltermann (Cambridge UP 2007)
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This week saw the twelfth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and the first anniversary of the attacks in Benghazi. Jane published an essay, drawing on E.B. White's Here Is New York, to mark the day.
One o...
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Published by Touchstone (2013)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel