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The 2013 Lawfare Readership Survey
This time last year, we posted a readership survey that a larger number of Lawfare readers were kind enough to fill out. The results were extremely helpful, so we thought we'd do it again. -
Thursday Obama Speech on Counterterrorism
The President will give a speech on counterterrorism at the National Defense University on Thursday, reports the WP: A White House official, speaking Saturday on the condition of anonymity to describe th... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On the Lawfare menu this week was a lot of discussion of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, docket updates in a number of related court cases, detention matters, surveillance law, two ... -
Wiki Case Page: Al Bahlul Resources
Over the next few weeks, we will be starting our rollout of the Lawfare Wiki Document Library. The library will have many facets, and we will be introducing it piece by piece, sometimes page by page. The... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Benghazi attacks get more polarizing by the minute: Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post reports that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has accused Republicans of leaking -
Wikipedia Volunteer Elijah Bosley Responds
This morning, I posted a link to a new article I have written with Stephanie Leutert about our efforts to edit the Wikipedia page on "lawfare." The article describes how a volunteer Wikipedia editor name... -
Readings: Michael Glennon on the "Incompleteness" of International Law Governing the Use of Force
International and foreign relations law professor Michael J. Glennon has posted a new paper to SSRN, "The Road Ahead: Gaps, Leaks, and Drips," which will be of considerable interest to both scholars and ... -
On Wikipedia, Lawfare, Blogs, and Sources
A few months ago, I was asked to give a talk at the Pentagon on the concept of lawfare. I opened it with a story about how some months earlier I had tried had tried to edit the Wikipedia page on the word... -
Readings: Thomas Nachbar on Legitimacy and Counterinsurgency
Thomas Nachbar (well known to many Lawfare readers - University of Virginia law professor and US Army reservist in the JAG Corps, among other roles) has posted to SSRN a paper originally published last ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
I have emerged from my undisclosed location to bring you this week at Lawfare, which saw a lot of detention-related commentary, a serious dose of Ben critiquing Harold Koh, analysis of U.S.-versus-China ... -
Cully Stimson on Heritage's New National Security Law Program
Over at the Heritage Foundation, Senior Legal Fellow Cully Stimson held this event the other day, at which Kenneth Wainstein spoke: -
Bradley & Goldsmith Supplement for Foreign Relations Law
Curtis Bradley and I have a casebook on foreign relations law that includes a heavy dose of national security law (including chapters on covert action and targeted killing) that might be of interest to L... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
I'm emerging temporarily from my undisclosed location to get you caught up on this week's Lawfare happenings. Detention-related matters made up most, but hardly all, of the week's writings. There were ... -
John Bellinger on "Drones and the Rule of Law and War"
The Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC hosted an excellent discussion yesterday on targeted killing in which "[p]anelists evaluated issues like the current frameworks regarding the use of drones,... -
"The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth," by Mark Mazzetti
Published by Penguin Press (2013) Reviewed by Jack Goldsmith -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Much of this week's Lawfare commentary concerned the recently-filed case against Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev. But that's not all. Among other things, we noted critical developments in Guantan... -
Former Counterterrorism Official Philip Mudd at Brookings
Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Intelligence Project and a former CIA official, hosted Philip Mudd, a former CIA and FBI official, for a public talk this Monday entitled "... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
It's kind of a cliche to observe that it's been quite a week. Having spent five years in Boston and at the ‘Tute, I was pained to see my old stomping ground start to resemble a war zone during these past... -
Readings: Gabriella Blum, 'The Individualization of War: From Collectivism to Individualism in the Regulation of Armed Conflicts'
Harvard Law School professor Gabriella Blum has posted a book chapter to SSRN, "The Individualization of War: From Collectivism to Individualization in the Regulation of Warfare," appearing in Sarat, Dou... -
Readings: 'Funding Terror'
Financial resources for terrorist groups probably should get more attention here at Lawfare than we give it. We know that interdiction of terrorist financing has been utterly crucial as a tool of counte...
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