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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The National Security Division of the Justice Department charged W. Samuel Patten, a Washington political operative and former associate of Paul Manafort, with failing to register as an agent of a foreig... -
Rational Security: The 'Kim Jong Umm Just Kidding' Edition
A former NSA contractor receives a stiff prison sentence for giving classified information to journalists. Nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea hit big roadblocks. And the administration backs off ... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
A U.N. report accuses Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of committing or enabling numerous war crimes in Yemen, according to the New York Times. The report also noted that numerous crimes have be... -
The 'Caroline' Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense
PDF Version Review of Craig Forcese, Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War (Irwin Law, 2018) * * * -
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Can India Help the United States Against China?
Editor’s Note: As the United States struggles to contain a rising China—a top priority under any administration—many strategists look to India. They hope that close U.S. relations with New Delhi and Indi... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Friday, August 17, the Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed a sentencing memorandum in the case of George Papadopoulos, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI. Quinta Jurecic posted the memoran... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 10:00 a.m.: The Brookings Institution will host a panel discussion on “Reimagining the U.S.-South Korea Alliance.” Panelis... -
Libya's House of Cards: Elections Without Institutions
Editor’s Note: After years of civil war in Libya, the recent plan to hold elections there seems like a rare ray of sunshine, creating hope that the country may be on the path to peace. Jason Pack and Rhi... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes began the week by analyzing a little-known Office of Legal Counsel opinion from 1973 on whether the president can be subpoenaed. Also in L’Affaire Russe news, yet another U.S. District Co... -
RIP Federal Common Law of Foreign Relations?
The federal common law of foreign relations is a shrinking field. It should still govern many immunity-related issues, though not for the reasons courts and other scholars have given. -
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Is It Time for a Space Force?
Editor’s Note: One of President Trump's more surprising, and more ambitious, decisions is to create a sixth branch of the military dedicated to space. Such a move would be historic, but would it be a goo... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
President Trump surprised many legal experts on Sunday when he tweeted that the purpose of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was “to get information on an opponent.” Bob Bauer outlined the many ways that... -
Tech Giants at the Crossroads: A Modest Proposal
Major technology and social-media companies— think Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google— wield tremendous power. Given their reach, their financial heft, their importance to vast swaths of customers d... -
An Intelligence Reserve Corps to Counter Terrorist Use of the Internet
Never before in history have terrorists had such easy access to the minds and eyeballs of millions,” declared one journalistic account of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine and proficient use of Twi... -
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
PDF Version Review of Loch Johnson’s “Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States” (Oxford University Press, 2018). *** There are abundant recent examples of Congress exercising its... -
Executive Branch Lawyering in Time of Crisis
We have complementary articles about the proper conception of lawyering for the president in times of crisis in the most recent issue of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics that we thought might be of... -
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Can the Senate Constrain the President on NATO and Russia?
Editor’s Note: Trump's destruction of U.S. alliances and coddling of Moscow is alarming enough, but even more distressing is the apparent complacency of many powerful Republicans. This may be changing. M...
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