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Calling all Lawfare readers: We are looking for an undergraduate or a recent graduate to intern with us during the fall semester, and will be accepting applications until the end of the month. The announ...
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A note of the thanks to the law students who have been buying text books using our sidebar Amazon widget. This is hugely valuable to the site, as textbooks are criminally expensive, but it costs you noth...
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A Lawfare debate ensued over an amicus brief filed in the Al-Bahlul D.C. Circuit appeal.
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Whenever someone buys things from Amazon.com using our little search widget on the sidebar, Lawfare gets a percentage of the purchase price. If you're thinking about buying big heavy law school text book...
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I've been thinking about ways to get the Lawfare Podcast a wider audience, and I want to recruit some reader help in this endeavor. Over on iTunes, the podcast has only five-star ratings, but nobody has ...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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A Brookings event from the other day, hosted by the other Brookings Wittes.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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...