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A Lawfare License Plate?
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... -
D.C. National Security Law Career Fair: October 17
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 ... -
Charlie Savage on Legal Policy Inside the Bush and Obama Administrations
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... -
Video of John Brennan's Speech
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. -
Liveblogging the HLS-Brookings Conference Today and Tomorrow
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... -
"A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism," by Daniel Byman
Published by Oxford University Press (2011) Reviewed by Alice Diana Beauheim -
Mea Culpa: Steve Vladeck
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law (and Associate Dean for Scholarship) at American University Washington College of Law. Steve is the author of many terrific articles relating to national security an... -
"Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser," by Michael P. Scharf and Paul R. Williams
Published by Cambridge University Press (2010) Reviewed by Jennifer C. Daskal -
Mea Culpa: Jonathan Hafetz
Jonathan Hafetz, a habeas lawyer and law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law and the author of Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System, writes in with th... -
Mea Culpa: John Rizzo
John Rizzo, former acting general counsel for CIA, writes in with the following in connection with Lawfare's 9/11 10th Anniversary Project. This essay is adapted from a longer piece, entitled "9/11: Thre... -
Mea Culpa: Lawfare
In the Fall of 2002, a month or so after I started work in the Defense Department General Counsel’s office, I had a chat with Rear Admiral Michael Lohr, who at the time was the Judge Advocate General of ... -
Mea Culpa: Shane Harris
Shane Harris, senior writer for Washington magazine and author of the The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, writes in with the following in connection with Lawfare's 9/11 10th Anniversa... -
The Harvard Law School Brookings Project on Law and Security
Astute students of Lawfare's layout may have noticed this morning that our sidebar has a new addition: An announcement that Lawfare is now a project of the Harvard Law School Brookings Project on Law and... -
Mea Culpa: The Military's Proper Role in Strengthening the Rule of Law During Armed Conflict
My contribution to Lawfare's 10th Anniversary Project concerns the role of the military in strengthening justice institutions in countries struggling to emerge from instability, a topic on which my perso... -
Mea Culpa: Stewart Baker
Stewart Baker, former general counsel of the NSA and policy chief at DHS, is the author of Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren't Stopping Tomorrow's Terrorism. He writes in with the following as part of Lawfa... -
Mea Culpa: Joseph Margulies
Joseph Margulies is a professor at Northwestern Law School who serves as the associate director of the MacArthur Justice Center. Joseph served as counsel of record on behalf of the detainees in Rasul an... -
We Read the Dick Cheney Reviews So You Don't Have To
Judging from his new book, In My Time, former Vice President Dick Cheney probably won't be participating in the Lawfare 10th Anniversary Project, which is devoted to acknowledging error and second though... -
Mea Culpa: The Virtues of Habeas Review Outside the Combat Zone
My contribution to our 9/11 10th Anniversary Project concerns the role of the judiciary in relation to detention. Well do I recall my reaction to the first wave of Guantanamo litigation back in the 2002... -
Happy Birthday Lawfare
(by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney & Jack Goldsmith) -
The "Gamification" of Hacking
The Washington Post has an interesting article this morning on a website that posts rankings of hackers. The concept is that hackers earn points based on level of difficulty of the hack, as well as the ...
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