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The Art of Dealing with the Taliban
Editor’s Note: As the Trump administration weighs its options in Afghanistan, one of the biggest questions is whether to continue talks with the Taliban via its office in Doha—an office set up with stron... -
Will Emerging Weapons Change the Law of War?
PDF version A review of Jeremy Rabkin and John Yoo's Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules of War (Encounter Books, 2017). *** -
Philip B. Heymann: The Art of the Cover Up: Watergate
Lawfare is pleased to announce the publication of a new paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: The Art of the Cover Up: Watergate, by Philip B. Heymann, law professor at Harvard Law School and forme... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, November 13 at 10:00 am: The Brookings Institution will host a panel of experts to explore the question: Is There Really a Military Read... -
Avengers in Wrath: Moral Agency and Trauma Prevention for Remote Warriors
Editor’s Note: Drone warfare is often caricatured as remote-control fighting, more akin to playing a video game than real warfare. In an unusual Foreign Policy Essay, Dave Blair and Karen House take on ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Friday, the news broke that the special counsel is investigating whether Michael Flynn and his son plotted to deliver Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen to Turkey. Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes anal... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Election Cybersecurity Panel with Chris Krebs and Ed Felten
Episode 191 is our long-awaited election security podcast before a live, and lively, audience. Our panel consists of Chris Krebs, formerly of Microsoft and now the top cybersecurity official at DHS (wit... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Interview with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
In our 190th episode, Stewart Baker has a chance to interview Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who has a long history of engagement with technology and security issues. In this episode, we spend a remarka... -
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The Lawfare Podcast: Susan Landau on ‘Listening In’
Technology presents both consumer convenience and risk, creating a conflict between security and privacy as government agencies seek to weaken the protections that consumers want heightened. -
The Week That Will Be
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Will Killer Robots Be Banned? Lessons from Past Civil Society Campaigns
Editor’s Note: One of the most successful NGO anti-war efforts was the campaign to ban landmines, which led to a treaty banning their use and production in 1997. Activists, not surprisingly, are using th... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
What a week it was. Last Friday, CNN reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had filed the first indictments in the Russia investigation—though it did not name either the targets or the charges. Su... -
The National Security Law Podcast: Emergency Edition: Interrogation, Prosecution and Detention Issues in the Wake of the NYC Attack
We are back, one day after dropping episode 43, with an emergency podcast discussion the legal consequences of the horrific attack that occurred in New York City yesterday. The need for the podcast flow... -
Event: Hoover Book Soiree Tonight: Susan Landau's 'Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age'
Join us this evening for a book soiree at the Hoover Institution from 5 to 7 p.m., when Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes will interview Susan Landau about her forthcoming book, "Listening In: Cybersecurity in a... -
The Divisible College of International Lawyers
PDF version A review of Anthea Roberts's Is International Law International? (Oxford, 2017). *** -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, October 30 at 2:00 pm: The American Series of International Law will have an online panel on The Use of Force under International Law. J... -
The Blessing Hidden in Trump’s UNESCO Withdrawal
Editor’s Note: The Trump administration is suspicious of multilateralism in general, so it is not surprising that it is skeptical of the United Nations. The administration's decision to withdraw from UNE... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Matthew Kahn shared a primer on the history of the 25th Amendment and presidential disability after President Trump asked of the amendment, “What’s that?” Bob Litt reminded readers that the so-called "St... -
A Response to Steve Slick’s Review of ‘Finks’
At the heart of Steve Slick’s September 26 review of my book Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers, lies an unstated riddle: When do democratic institutions allow themselves to censor? Slic...
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