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Readings: Jens Ohlin, 'The Duty to Capture'
Jack Goldsmith has flagged NYU professor Ryan Goodman's European Journal of International Law article, "The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants," as well as a Slate article by Goodman drawn from th... -
Readings: David Pozen on "The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information"
I'm not a big fan of the law review article as a form. But every now and then, one comes along that is genuinely important, that sheds new and interesting light on an important issue, that cuts through t... -
Upcoming Brookings Events
I want to highlight these upcoming events at Brookings of potential interest to our readers in the D.C. area: Is there a Widening Sunni-Shia Schism? February 22, 2013, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST, Saul/Zilkh... -
Readings: Autonomous Weapon Systems Links Post Updated
Back on December 11, 2012, I posted a special Readings page of links to articles, reports and other materials on autonomous weapon systems and their regulation. It is updated periodically; I've just add... -
Readings: Aaron Zelin on Global Jihad Online
Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy---with whom we are piloting our little analytic experiment---has an important and timely report out entitled The State of Global Jihad Online:... -
Readings: Herb Lin on "Defining Self-Defense for the Private Sector in Cyberspace"
Herb Lin of the National Research Council has just published an informative, brief article entitled, "Defining Self-Defense for the Private Sector in Cyberspace." It's a good primer on active cyberdefens... -
Administrative Note
For those of you who have spent the weekend wondering what the next administrative change at Lawfare is going to be, wait no more. The advent of the Lawfare News Feed has made our news ticker (the rollin... -
Readings: Curtis Bradley, International Law in the U.S. Legal System
Lawfare is always pleased to note new books by friends and contributors, tag them as Readings, and encourage discussion of them here and around the web. So please welcome Curtis Bradley's brand-new book... -
Georgetown Law Event on Private Sector Careers 2/6
This event Wednesday at Georgetown University Law Center looks like a good one, and is open to all D.C.-area law students: The Georgetown National Security Law Society and The Office of Graduate Program... -
A Different Take on <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em>
Ritika already posted about AEI's panel yesterday on Zero Dark Thirty, along with a link to the video of the proceedings. -
AEI Event on Zero Dark Thirty
The American Enterprise Institute held an event yesterday entitled “Watching ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ with the CIA: Separating fact from fiction.” According to the event description, the discussion centered ar... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Trouble continues in Mali. French-led forces have seized the Timbuktu airport from militants, and although it is really cool that there actually is a Timbuktu, it is decidedly not cool that fighting cont... -
Self-Promotion Department: Vázquez and Vladeck on <em>Bivens</em> and State Law
A while back, I posted about a forthcoming article by Carlos Vázquez (Georgetown) and me on the relationship between Bivens remedies and state law, especially in national security cases. -
Readings: Alan Backstrom and Ian Henderson on New Capabilities in Warfare and Legal Weapons Reviews
Alan Backstrom and Ian Henderson have a new draft working paper at SSRN, "New Capabilities in warfare: an overview of contemporary technological developments and the associated legal and engineering issu... -
The Evolution of Joint Special Operations Command and the Pursuit of al Qaeda in Iraq: A Conversation with General Stanley A. McChrystal
Brookings is hosting Gen. Stanley McChrystal today from 10:00 am EST-11:30 am EST. Here is the link to the live webcast. For those who cannot tune in, we will be posting the full video and the full audio... -
Brookings Event with Gen. Stanley McChrystal
This should pique the interest of our local readers: Killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and His Legacy: A Discussion with General Stanley A. McChrystal -
Great Lawfare Moments in Presidential Inaugurations
Despite the unsurprising focus on domestic policy in President Obama’s second inaugural address today, his speech was not entirely devoid of national security issues. “We will defend our people and uphol... -
Max Boot Guest-Blogging This Week at Volokh Conspiracy
Many Lawfare readers have probably seen notices or reviews of Max Boot's brand-new book on the history of guerrilla warfare, Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to t... -
More New Additions to the Lawfare News Feed
Three more new additions to the Lawfare news feed: Wired's Threat Level blog, which covers online privacy and crime; Foreign Policy's Killer Apps blog, which will---unfortunately---only appear on the ... -
Readings: Jeffrey S. Thurnher on Law of Armed Conflict Applied to Autonomous Weapon Systems
The American Society of International Law has released a new "ASIL Insight" on law applicable to autonomous weapon systems. (ASIL Insights are short, descriptive pieces on topical issues meant as non-te...
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