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Paradigms of International Human Rights Law: An Exchange
Earlier this month, Tom Dannenbaum reviewed Aaron Fellmeth’s new book, Paradigms of International Human Rights Law. Fellmeth responds to the review below. Dannenbaum then replies. * * * Fellmeth resp... -
A Bivens Encomium—or Elegy
PDF version A review of James E. Pfander, Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2017). *** -
Argument Summary: Hawaii v. Trump
Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal faced off yesterday before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit on the legality of President Trump’s revised Marc... -
The Week That Will Be
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Can the Islamic State Survive Financially?
Editor’s Note: The Islamic State's control of territory and zealous fighters vaulted it to the top ranks of the world's most formidable terrorist groups. Less noticed, but tremendously important to the ... -
The Very Long Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
It’s been a very long week. It was only last Sunday that France voted in centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron as the next president over the far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen. Laura Dean consi... -
Oral Argument Summary: IRAP v. Trump (the Travel Ban case)
Yesterday afternoon, the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, heard two hours of argument in IRAP v. Trump. At issue was District Judge Theodore Chuang’s nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining enforceme... -
Two Upcoming Lawfare Liveblogs This Afternoon: Sally Yates' Testimony and IRAP v. Trump
As Lawfare readers are likely aware, two important events will be taking place at 2:30pm Eastern time this afternoon: first, a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism featurin... -
Who Counts as al-Qaeda: Lessons from Libya
Editor’s Note: Ties to a terrorist group are rightly a stigma. However, given the nebulous nature of many groups, such connections are often easy to overstate. Alex Thurston, my colleague at Georgetown, ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Jane Chong, Benjamin Wittes and I kicked off the week by proposing seven different theories that might explain what we know so far about L’Affaire Russe. -
A Philosophical Foundation for International Human Rights Law?
PDF version A review of Aaron Xavier Fellmeth, Paradigms of International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2016). *** -
Liveblog: Director Comey Testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee
FBI Director James Comey is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a committee hearing on "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." Video of the hearing is available here and below... -
Reminder, Hoover Book Soiree: Mark Moyar's Oppose Any Foe
This is a reminder to RSVP for the next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution: tomorrow, May 3, Jack will interview Mark Moyar about his new book, Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s ... -
Do We Really Need Another Trump-Russia Timeline?
Today marks the launch of our comprehensive page collecting developments and news stories relating to President Trump and his associates’ alleged ties to Russia. But the internet is teeming with timeline... -
The Week That Will Be
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The State of Sovereignty
In these polarized times, it came as a surprise to me that the authors of three of the most interesting books on international relations of the past year agree on at least one thing. Each argues that the... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Russell Miller and Ralf Poscher on ‘Privacy and Power’
Four years on, the cultural differences between Europe and the United States exposed by Edward Snowden’s disclosures of NSA surveillance programs still loom large in transatlantic relations. At our most ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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The Press Gets Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Wrong Again (and Again)
The press has gotten increasingly deliberate about calling out the Trump administration’s falsehoods, deploying “muscular” headlines ("Meeting With Top Lawmakers, Trump Repeats an Election Lie") and pith... -
Hoover Book Soiree, Mark Moyar's Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place on Wednesday, May 3, when Jack interviews Mark Moyar about his new book, Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Ope...
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