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Upcoming Brookings Events
Three events at Brookings are coming up in the near future that will be of interest to readers: 1. The Internationalization of Law Ninth Annual Raymond Aron Lecture Featuring Professor Mireille Delmas-... -
Readings: Matt and Ken on "Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers"
I linked earlier to this new article in the course of critiquing Human Rights Watch's report on "killer robots," but it's worth separate notice. -
Lawfare Outage---Apologies
For reasons we have not yet been able to determine, Lawfare has been down for the past few hours---since right around 10:52 am. Our apologies for the interrupted access to the site. For those of you who ... -
Administrative Note #2: Call for Help from Social Networkers and Podcast Listeners
If you're a regular Lawfare reader and Facebook user, and you haven't yet "liked" our Facebook page, please do us---and yourself, and your Facebook friends---a favor and do so. In fact, do one better and... -
Administrative Note: News Ticker
By now, I suspect, most readers will have noticed our new news ticker, which appears just below "Today's Headlines and Commentary" at the top of our sidebar. The ticker itself requires no explanation, bu... -
Readings: Orin Kerr on "A Theory of Law"
Fourth Amendment scholar Orin Kerr has written a very important--and readably brief--law review article in The Green Bag entitled, "A Theory of Law." I commend it to all Lawfare readers who have ever had... -
Readings: David Cole Comments on Anderson's Civil Society Post
Further to my weekend Readings post noting David Cole's new SSRN paper, David dropped me a note, which I'm delighted to put up below. I think David is right in these comments; knowing he's expanding thi... -
Readings: David Cole on Civil Society and Individual Rights After 9/11
Georgetown law professor David Cole has a new article up on SSRN, "Where Liberty Lies: Civil Society and Individual Rights after 9/11." It offers something of a retrospective on the role of civil societ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Reuters informs us that Ayman al-Zawahri has released a document describing Al Qaeda’s desire to establish an Islamic caliphate and instructing Muslims to live according to Sharia law. Khalid Aldawsari,... -
Paging All Law Students (and others): The Lawfare Wiki Document Library
The Lawfare Wiki Document Library wants you! The next big phase of Lawfare expansion involves the creation of a large document library---a kind of one-stop-shopping for primary source material in the fi... -
WCL American University Program on Cyberwarfare and Law
If you are around DC on Thursday, November 8, and have an interest in cyberwarfare and law, the AU International Law Journal and National Security Law Brief are jointly presenting a program at Washington... -
Why <em>Boumediene</em> "Rights" Don't "Expire": A Response to Professor Kent
Readers probably won't be surprised that, as Professor Andrew Kent noted at the end of his guest post, I've already drafted a longer response to Andrew's important and provocative new essay, "Do Boumedie... -
Lawfare was Down for a Few Minutes--Apologies
No, it wasn't a cyber-attack. I was doing some work on the Wiki Document Library and accidentally password protected the entire site. Thanks to those of you who brought this to my attention, and apologie... -
Administrative Note
Particularly astute readers who have been carefully combing the site over the past five minutes may have noticed that our "search" bar has changed subtly and now includes check boxes that allow users to ... -
Call for Papers and Attendees: 6th Annual National Security Law Workshop
I'm very pleased to announce that the 6th Annual National Security Law Workshop will take place May 16-17, 2013, at the U.S. Army JAG School in Charlottesville, VA! The call for papers and attendees is ... -
Job Board Spammed
Well, that didn't take long. Yesterday, I posted a wiki job board on Lawfare so that people who are hiring in the field of national security law could reach those looking for work in the field. I expecte... -
I'm Thinking Lawfare Needs a Job Board
People looking to hire in national security law often send us job announcements to post, and folks looking for jobs frequently get in touch thinking---usually wrongly---that we can help. We should do mor... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Over the weekend, Israel announced that it had shot down a drone that had penetrated its airspace. -
Readings: "The Case of the Murdering Wives," Reid v. Covert, and Civilians and Courts-Martial
Captain Brittany Warren, a US Army JAG who has just completed her JD at GW Law School, has an article appearing in the Military Law Review (Vol. 212, 2012, p. 133, link is to jagcnet.army.mil), "The Case... -
Readings: Two Leading Academic Social Science Journals on Terrorism
I am sometimes asked what academic journals I would recommend for research in terrorism and political violence studies from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. Two stand out, although unfor...
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