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This fall may prove a landmark in the ongoing debate between security and privacy. Poised to take action are both the U.S. Supreme Court, in Carpenter v. United States, and the U.S. Congress, with the i...
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The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is creating new challenges for law, policy, and governance at domestic and international levels.
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U.S. officials are right to crow about the fall of Raqqa and the pain the United States inflicted on the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. Although Obama administration policies deserve much of the c...
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One of the most important post-9/11 reforms that has helped keep our nation safe from mass-casualty terrorist attacks was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This year, the Senate ...
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The European Commission released its first annual report on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the agreement that allows cross-border data transfers of European citizens' personal information to the United Stat...
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On Lawfare's feed at Foreign Policy, I wrote about how China has aggressively undermined key U.N. human rights mechanisms and how the Trump administration is enabling China's efforts. The piece begins:
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On Oct. 11, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Jesner v. Arab Bank. Jesner involves whether the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) allows federal courts to exercise jurisdiction over claims by aliens against cor...
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Federal judges issued two separate orders halting the Trump administration’s latest travel ban order, the Washington Post reported.
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If you were unsure about whether your hosts are geeks, this episode will help settle the question. But before we get to what Professors Chesney and Vladeck think they know but don’t really, here’s the s...
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Iraqi Forces Push Kurdish Peshmerga Out of Contested Areas
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The U.K. government released a new “Internet Safety Strategy” Green Paper last week, making clear its intention to follow through on bold campaign rhetoric promising aggressive internet regulation.
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A review of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro's, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece was updated Tuesday with a short comment on Judge Theodore Chuang's order.
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This episode features an interview with Mårten Mickos, the CEO of HackerOne. HackerOne administers bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs for a host of private companies as well as DOD’s “Hack ...
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U.S.-backed forces completed the capture of Raqqa, the one-time capital city of the Islamic State, the Washington Post reported. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they had ceased military operation...
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When an American ISIS fighter turned himself in to Syrian Democratic Forces last month, the subsequent detention of the unnamed enemy combatant by U.S. forces sparked concern. To explore the implications...
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The six-year wait is finally over. On September 12, the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) published its doctrine on best practices for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Joint Doctrine Publication (JDP) 0-30....
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Today’s news roundup features Shane Harris of the Wall Street Journal, Brian Egan, and Alan Cohn discussing stories that Shane wrote last week.