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In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck zero in on four recent developments involving law and national security.
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[Editor's note: This piece is the latest installment in a mutli-blog series building on the Fifth Annual Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict, as explained in detail here.]
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Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley said the U.S. has “no risk-free options” regarding North Korea’s nuclear program and called the prospect of war on the Korean peninsula “horrific,” CNN reported. Secretary...
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered the following remarks about encryption on Tuesday at the U.S. Naval Academy. The following is his speech as prepared for delivery:
Thank you, Professor ...
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Trump Expected to Send Iran Deal Debate Back to Congress
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China has made rapid progress over the past two years towards developing a legal framework governing cyberspace.
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For months, Ben and I have teasingly harkened back to the halcyon days when we used to disagree more often—when the relatively modest real estate between our respective views on U.S. national security la...
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In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the Supreme Court held that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) is presumed not to apply to conduct on the territory of another country unless the plaintiff’s claims “touch a...
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The detention by U.S. forces of a still-unnamed ISIS fighter who turned himself over to a U.S.-allied militia in Syria a few weeks ago has sparked cries of alarm that hark back to the early days of the p...
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Last week, on our feed at Foreign Policy, we gave seven takeaways from the press conference on the Russia investigation that Sens. Richard Burr and Mark Warner, the heads of the Senate intelligence commi...
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Ryan Goodman recently wrote a post in Just Security titled “Why the Laws of War Apply to Drone Strikes Outside ‘Areas of Active Hostilities’ (A Memo to the Human Rights Community).” Its main point is tha...
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Turkey and the United States announced they were reciprocally suspending most visitor visas for travelers going between their countries, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The U.S. embassy in Ankara...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Within the pantheon of Trump administration scandals, the manufactured uproar over “unmasking” came and went quicker than most. It was last spring that White House officials, working in tandem with House...
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We're excited to announce that Lawfare will be hosting a screening of the documentary Icarus on October 19 at the Brookings Institution. Director Bryan Fogel, producer Dan Cogan, Brookings President Str...
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Is the Las Vegas mass murderer a “terrorist”? This question has been hotly debated in recent days, which is in many ways surprising given that there is a near consensus on a straightforward definition of...
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Editor’s Note: Iran's support for Syria, presence in Iraq, and enmity toward Irael and U.S. Arab allies is the focus of most U.S. attention. Afghanistan, where Iran plays a major role, is often neglected...
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Last month, Lawfare and Foreign Policy hosted an event on lawyering for the Trump presidency. Susan Hennessey spoke with former White House Counsels Bob Bauer, who served in the Obama administration from...
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The Senate Intelligence Committee leadership briefed the press on the progress of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Vanessa Sauter posted the video and transcript.
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President Trump is expected to “decertify” Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal next week, the Washington Post reported. He will announce the deal is not in the U.S. national security interest an...