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The week started with some unexpected early excitement over China’s seizure of a U.S. navy drone in international waters in the South China Sea. Julian Ku kicked off our discussion the weak legal basis f...
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A gunman has shot and killed Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov at an Ankara art gallery.
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After campaigning on the promise to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, last week President-elect Trump seemed to reaffirm his ambivalence about the scientific consensus on the subject whe...
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This week saw Donald Trump finally reach a decision as to who will serve as his Secretary of State, following an unusually public and drawn-out selection process: Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson.
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A review of Jens David Ohlin and Larry May's Necessity in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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The Lawfare Podcast has made it to our 200th episode! Thank you to all our listeners, old and new.
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On Monday, the White House released a major report on the legal and policy frameworks guiding U.S. use of military force. Benjamin Wittes provided his thoughts on the report, and Chris Mirasola and Helen...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7pm today, Wednesday, December 7th, when Jack will interview Christopher Moran on his book Company Confessions: Sec...
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A review of Peter Spiro's At Home in Two Countries (NYU Press, 2016).
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Monday, December 5th at 1:30pm: New America will host a discussion on Fighting for Humanity in War, featuring Yves Dacord, Elisa Massimino, and ...
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On Monday, December 12th, the Center for a New American Security will be hosting an event of interest to Lawfare readers on "Surveillance Policy: A Pragmatic Agenda for 2017 and Beyond." The event will f...
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From March 30-April 1, 2017, the Yale Center for Global Legal Challenges and the Yale Office of International Affairs are sponsoring the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum, a two-day program that will focus on ...
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Editor’s Note: There is one bright spot in the darkness of the Middle East: the U.S. relationship with various Kurdish groups. In Iraq and Syria in particular, the Kurds seem the bulwark of U.S. efforts ...
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Benjamin Wittes offered a defense of libertarian panic as a response to the Trump administration.
He also shared journalist Jonathan Rauch’s query for input from Lawfare readers concerning how to identi...
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Has Lawfare changed? It turns out quite a few people think so, judging both by the private messages that have been coming to the founders of the site (me, Jack, and Ben) and by the post that Brett Max K...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7pm on Wednesday, December 7th, when Jack will interview Christopher Moran on his book Company Confessions: Secrets...