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This week on the podcast, we welcome Eric Schwartz, the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Schwartz previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of S...
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Last Friday, the new State Department Legal Adviser, Brian Egan, gave a speech on “International Law, Legal Diplomacy, and the Counter-ISIL Campaign” at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) a...
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Benjamin Wittes linked to State Department Legal Adviser Brian Egan’s speech at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law.
Ashley Deeks responded to his speech, highlighting Egan’s...
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On March 30, President François Hollande announced that he was abandoning a constitutional amendment that would have enshrined state of emergency powers and stripped French citizenship from convicted ter...
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Daniel Bethlehem says that my claim that the Obama administration has embraced the Bush doctrine of preemption for anticipatory self-defense “misses an essential element.” The essential element I misse...
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The Hill has obtained a draft of Senators Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr's much-discussed and long-awaited encryption bill, entitled the "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016." The bill is designe...
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As the U.S. government and policymaking community continues to debate how to respond to China’s actions in the South China Sea, it is worth stepping back a moment to look at the emerging dispute from Chi...
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The hugely popular messaging system Whatsapp is now encrypting everything for a billion people. The financial shenanigans of the rich and powerful are laid bare in the Panama Papers, the biggest leak of ...
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Ashley Deeks, Marty Lederman, Jack Goldsmith and Daniel Bethlehem have already commented on State Department Brian Egan's speech at ASIL last week.
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Chinese Vessel Ducks for Cover in Vietnamese Territorial Waters
Hai Phong Coast Guard approaches Chinese refuelling vessel (photo: Hai Phong Coast Guard)
Vietnam’s Coast Guard
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Bobby Chesney and Steve Slick have posted video of the remarkable conference last week at University of Texas at which Lisa Monaco spoke. Here is the text of her remarks:
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Last Wednesday, the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas-Austin hosted a conference on “Intelligence in American Society”. The conference focused on the supervision and oversight of U....
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The Supreme Court of Israel continues to restrain the Israeli government’s use of home demolitions for counterterrorism purposes. In two new decisions the Court annulled orders to demolish or seal the ho...
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Belgian security forces have unveiled new video footage of one of the Brussels airport bombing suspects. Agence France-Presse shares that the newly released video surveillance footage is a fresh appeal f...
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This post originally appeared on Markaz.
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This morning, I presented the following speech at Kenyon College—on Jodie Liu and my paper from last year on the privacy benefits of privacy threats, on some forthcoming work we'll be releasing next mont...
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Jack has been quick to draw parallels (here and here) between the Bush administration’s doctrine of pre-emption, set out in the September 2002 National Security Strategy, and the Obama administration’s a...
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Following protests spearheaded by powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr, Iraqi Oil Minister Abd al-Mahdi announced his resignation at the end of last month, suspending his activities as Minister and del...