When it comes to detention and drone strikes, both critics and supporters of the status quo assume that abandoning the armed-conflict model would have not just diplomatic and legal effects but also a sig...

Two pieces in the news worth noting on the issue of secrecy v. transparency in the U.S. intelligence world.

For those readers who missed our experiment with live webcast programming through the West LegalEdcenter, here's your second chance.

My fellow Americans, we have achieved a major victory in the War on Law Reviews. I’m thrilled to announce the next paper in Lawfare Research Paper Series: David Kris’s “On the Bulk Collection of Tangible...

By now, most readers will have heard of the New York Times story, alleging (based on disclosures from Edward Snowden) that the NSA has surreptitiously degraded a critical cryptography standard adopted by...

The official launch event for the new site Just Security is taking place at this hour with an event entitled, "When Reporting is a Crime: National Security and the Press After Snowden and Sterling." The ...

On September 20th, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, proposed legislation that would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...

I was honored to moderate a panel at Georgetown Law on Constitution Day, entitled "A Constitutional Conversation: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a Digital Era." The panel, composed of Geor...

That's the sum and substance of this Washington Post piece, which begins: A former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a contractor for the Bureau has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national de...