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The Important, Justifiable and Constrained Role Of Nationality In Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
This Lawfare post summarizes a longer essay we are publishing today with the Hoover Working Group on National Security, Technology and Law. Our essay addresses whether governments ever have a justified b... -
Remembering the Ludlow Amendment
Few people today have ever heard of the Ludlow Amendment—a radical proposal that would have required a popular referendum before Congress could declare war and which lost a critical House vote on this da... -
In Visiting China, Kim Jong Un Makes Good on New Year’s Speech
Editor’s Note: The Trump administration has made North Korea one of its strategic priorities, but the Pyongyang regime is inscrutable, making it difficult to determine the best approach. Brookings senior... -
Copy Editors, Come Work for Lawfare!
Lawfare is now accepting resumes from part-time freelance copy editors and proofreaders to contribute to our high-impact, nonpartisan website examining issues at the intersection of national security and... -
The Week That Will Be
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Drawing the Line on U.S. Reassurance to Eastern Europe
Editor’s Note: The United States is considering deploying permanent forces to Poland to signal the U.S. security commitment to that country. Such a move would be a massive strategic shift and one that ra... -
The Fortnight That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The recent discovery of the memorandum that William Barr, the president’s nominee for attorney general, sent the Justice Department in June criticizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Thursday, Dec. 20, in a concise letter that outlined the differences between his worldview and the president’s, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced his resignation, effective Feb. 28, 2019. Quinta ... -
Master Developers: The New Sino-Arab Gulf Visions of Economic Development
Editor’s Note: As the United States withdraws both from the Middle East and from its traditional global leadership role under President Trump, rising powers like China and regional players like Saudi Ara... -
The Week That Will Be
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Implementing Carpenter
I recently posted a new draft article, “Implementing Carpenter,” on the Supreme Court's blockbuster June 2018 decision in Carpenter v. United States. -
Five Myths about Sponsor-Proxy Relationships
Editor’s Note: Minor powers, rebel groups, and other organizations often act as proxies for more powerful states or groups, which use them to fight (or commit) terrorism, counter rival regimes, or otherw... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Starting with Yemen, Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast featuring a discussion on the origins and potential outcomes of the war in Yemen with Gregory Johnsen, Daniel Byman and Benj... -
Jewish Human Rights
PDF Version. A review of James Loeffler, “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Yale UP, 2018) *** With whom have we not spent heart-warming hours there, looking out... -
The Week That Will Be
Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 3:00 p.m.: The American Enterprise Institute will host a discussion on the state of freedom of speech in South Korea, and the implications of new media regulations on the country. Nic... -
Litigating Data Sovereignty
If the first round of debates over internet governance focused on whether the internet can be governed, today’s debates are about which states will regulate the internet, how and where. China famously ma... -
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army: Not the Jihadis You Might Expect
Editor’s Note: Myanmar has produced one of the world's worst human-made humanitarian crises, with the government there persecuting the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, with thousands dying and hundreds of th... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
It was a busy Friday on Lawfare: the special counsel’s office filed a submission in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia providing more detail on Paul Manafort’s alleged breach his plea a... -
Teaching Cybersecurity Law and Policy: My Revised 62-Page Syllabus/Primer
Cybersecurity law and policy is a fun subject to teach. There is vast room for creativity in selecting topics, readings and learning objectives. But that same quality makes it difficult to decide what to... -
A User’s Guide to Ending the Trump Presidency
PDF version. A review of David Priess, “How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives” (PublicAffairs, 2018) ***
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