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The U.S.-China trade conflict has continued to escalate, as both sides appear determined not to flinch among rapidly rising tariff threats. On Aug. 7, the U.S. Trade Representative announced the list of ...
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The 2018 “techlash” shows no sign of slowing. The last week of July saw the release of two papers containing proposals for significant increases regulation of tech companies, particularly with an eye tow...
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Encryption usually takes center stage in debates over digital evidence, and the sensitivities around the issue often halt discussions before reaching practical solutions. But on July 25, the Center for S...
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We’re officially on hiatus this month, but we just couldn’t stay away that long. If you can’t live without the Cyberlaw Podcast in your life, then you’re in luck. We’re releasing a couple of bonus episod...
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A U.S. airstrike mistakenly targeted a police outpost in Afghanistan, killing at least a dozen members of Afghan security forces, according to a spokesman for the Afghan governor of the Logar Province, r...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia circuit denied the habeas petition of Guantanamo detainee Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alawi, upholding the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Distri...
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On Aug. 25 2017, President Trump ordered the U.S. government to not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. military. Two plaintiffs, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, subsequently filed a ...
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Saudi Arabia Expels Canadian Ambassador After Accusing Her of Interfering in Saudi Politics
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We have complementary articles about the proper conception of lawyering for the president in times of crisis in the most recent issue of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics that we thought might be of...
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Saudi Arabia’s military coalition in Yemen made secret deals with hundreds of al-Qaeda fighters, including paying them to abandon key cities and allowing fighters to retreat from disputed areas unmoleste...
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From 2015 to 2016, Israel experienced a wave of terror, dubbed the “knife intifada,” in which 47 Israelis were murdered. According to Israeli security sources, a majority of the attacks were carried out ...
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The Israeli legislature has taken another step toward blurring the lines distinguishing the Israeli legal system from the one that exists in the West Bank. The Knesset recently passed an amendment that t...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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In a previous post, I discussed how a competent lawyer would have responded to a campaign’s proposal that it accept a foreign government’s offer to help with the campaign. The lawyer, I wrote, would have...
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After many months of the executive branch taking action against U.S. trading partners, Congress is starting to push back.
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Editor’s Note: Trump's destruction of U.S. alliances and coddling of Moscow is alarming enough, but even more distressing is the apparent complacency of many powerful Republicans. This may be changing. M...
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The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort began on Tuesday in the Eastern District of Virginia. Autumn Brewington explained the charges against Manafort and the potential implications of t...
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Technologies that distort representations of reality, like audio, photo, and video editing software, are nothing new, but what happens when these technologies are paired with artificial intelligence to p...
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Senior intelligence officials described Russian interference as an ongoing threat to the United States during a Thursday press briefing at the White house, according to the Wall Street Journal. Director ...
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A year ago, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of July 2018.