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You may have noticed that no new content has appeared on Lawfare for the past seven hours. On noticing this, you may have thought to yourself, "How strange of the Lawfare folks not to have any new conten...
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Whatever else one might say about the D.C. Circuit's jurisprudence in the Guantanamo litigation, it's certainly been a jobs program...
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I'm delighted to announce that Stephen Vladeck of American University's Washington College of Law is joining Lawfare as a senior contributor. Many readers already know Steve's work, as he is one of the ...
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Both of these upcoming Brookings events may interest Lawfare readers:
Hacktivism, Vigilantism and Collective Action in a Digital Age
Friday, December 09, 2011
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Radical online a...
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We are grateful to Katie Bacon and the rest of the crew at the Harvard Law Bulletin for this very nice piece discussing the HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security as well as Lawfare, and to Dean Minow...
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A brief update for sports fans who follow the fierce international competition of, uh, Lawfare readership: Pakistan's brief stint on the medal podium in this admittedly obscure sport seems to have come t...
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Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
Prisoners in War Ed. Sibylle Scheipers (Oxford 2010)
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Over the past month, according to data from Google Analytics, Lawfare's readership has hailed overwhelmingly--as always--from the United States (nearly 86 percent of visitors). Readers from the United Ki...
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Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
Noam Lubell, Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors (Oxford 2010)
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That's something nobody will ever be able to take away from you.
UPDATE: Too late. Somone beat you to it. That someone--Lawfare's 500th Facebook "Like"--is one Kathryn Cameron Porter, who has Lawfare's ...
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THE 5th ANNUAL NATIONAL SECURITY LAW FACULTY WORKSHOP
May 17-18, 2012
Houston, TX
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To our more devoted readers: blogging will be on the lighter side today because Ben and Bobby are speaking at the Defense Department's 8th Annual Worldwide Detainee Conference. Do not fear though--things...
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For those who care about this site's traffic data (people ask me about it sometimes): According to Google Analytics, yesterday was the highest-traffic day in the history of Lawfare--with nearly 10,400 pe...
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As I've noted before (including this morning), I’ve been at work for some time on a paper exploring the legal issues generated by the convergence of military and intelligence activities and institutions—...
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Published by Hoover Institution Press (2011)
Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
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A friend in the intelligence community, using sophisticated data-mining techniques of a sort that threaten our civil liberties (namely, checking the D.C. government's web site), has learned that nobody h...
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From the President of GWU Law's National Security Law Association:
The ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security and GW Law School's National Security Law Association are organizing a National ...
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Charlie Savage of the New York Times has a long essay, available on Amazon (for 99 cents), called Power Wars: Unmasking National Security Legal Policy Deliberations Under Bush & Obama. The essay is adap...
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Video from last night's speech by John O. Brennan is now available. We will be posting a better video as soon as it has been formatted, but this one will do in the meantime.
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Beginning this afternoon, the Harvard Law School-Brookings Project on Law and Security will host its inaugural event: "Law, Security, and Liberty after 9/11: Looking to the Future." It will take place at...