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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed a lower court opinion and ordered the government to release key portions of the legal memos that lie behind the targeted killing of Anwar Al ...
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Editor’s Note: The recent events in Ukraine have dredged up memories of an era of great-power competition and territorial conquest driven by imperialistic ambitions that many observers believed had been ...
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In a surprising decision issued on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel, Judge Scheindlin held, in the long-running Apartheid litigation, that corporations may be sued under th...
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President Obama’s decision to deny a visa to Iran’s would-be Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Aboutalebi, is based on U.S. law dating back to 1947 and has numerous historical precedents. Although...
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Editor’s Note: Drone warfare and its many implications is a favorite subject for Lawfare readers. Yet even as the United States develops policies for the use of drones on and off the battlefield, it must...
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When then-Representative Barney Frank contemplated the ability of foreign interests to acquire American companies at the expense of national security, he made the following statement:
There is no right t...
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I testified yesterday at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the proposed transfer of the IANA function to ICANN. You can find my testimony (and that of the other witnesses) at the committee web si...
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The Washington Post has a story this evening on an often-overlooked aspect of interagency cooperation in connection with both combat operations and counterterrorism: FBI agents deploying into the field ...
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Our friends at the ICRC DC delegation have a wonderful blog, intercross, and often use it to host brief exchanges among scholars and practitioners on current IHL and IHL-related issues.
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As he noted below, Ben is testifying in front of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. The title of the hearing is "Is al-Qaeda Winning?
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Paul is skeptical about the USG's unilateral briefing to Chinese officials on some of its cyber operations and doctrines that David Sanger discloses in the NYT. He argues that China is unlikely to recip...
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Conversation at the Rosenzweig breakfast table this morning:
Wife: "That's just dreaming."
Me: "What?"
Wife (pointing to front page New York Times article): "Thinking that the Chinese will become mor...
