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Reforming Mutual Legal Assistance Needs Engagement Beyond the U.S.
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on conflicts of law and mutual legal assistance (MLA)—how to fulfill law enforcement requests for stored data in an era when transnational Internet... -
Grading the Obama Administration's Progress on Drone Policy
In his May 2013 speech at National Defense University, President Obama called for new ways to think about drones and the United States’ policy on using these systems in counterterrorism operations. Now, ... -
Congress Is Responsible for the Iranian Exemptions to the New Visa Waiver Law
Last Thursday’s hearing by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs made clear that the Republicans in Congress are still steaming about the Obama administration’s narrowing of Congress’s recent restrictio... -
Conflating Terrorism and Insurgency
Editor's Note: What if most terrorism isn’t really terrorism? In past decades, much of what we call terrorism today would have been seen as insurgent violence, revolutionary war, or civil war: a group li... -
Is Syria Obama’s Fault?
The Syria War, says Aaron David Miller, the distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, is "Not Obama’s Fault.” Instead, the war is primarily the work of Bashar Al-Assad, the presid... -
Water Wars: Missile-Deployment Controversy Splashes on, as PRC Foreign Minister Visits Washington
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Hot Commodities: Let’s Make a Deal—Oil Edition
Following months of speculation, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela last week announced their intention to freeze oil production at existing (high) levels in an attempt to stabilize the oil market. -
House Judiciary Hearing on International Conflicts of Law Concerning Cross Border Data Flow
The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony today on "International Conflicts of Law Concerning Cross Border Data Flow and Law Enforcement Requests." The two-panel hearing included remarks from Princip... -
Dispatch #8: Syria’s Other Government
GAZIANTEP, Turkey—”This looks so much like the countryside around Aleppo,” says Dr. Diaa Abdullah as we drive past green and rust-colored hills and olive groves between the Southeastern Turkish towns of ... -
French Constitutional Council Strikes Down Data Copying During Warrantless Searches
On Friday, February 19, the Constitutional Council upheld two articles of the state-of-emergency law—meeting bans and warrantless searches—as constitutional, but struck down a provision allowing the poli... -
Jawad v. Gates: Former Guantanamo Detainee Seeks Redress Under the Alien Tort Statute
Mohammed Jawad was arrested in Kabul in December 2002 by Afghan security forces responding to the scene of a grenade attack on US military personnel. See Jawad v. Gates, No. 14-00811 (D.D.C. July 8, 2015... -
Getting Serious About Syria: What to do When Containment Doesn't Work
Editor's Note: This piece was originally published on Markaz.
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