-
The House Judiciary Committee had a hearing yesterday on HR 699, the Email Privacy Act. The bill, which has more than 300 co-sponsors in the House (!) would update the Stored Communications Act to app...
-
Audio of the D.C. Circuit's en banc oral argument in Al Bahlul is available here. I haven't listened to it yet. I'll offer thoughts after I do.
-
In this comment, I would like to offer some thoughts in response to Butch Bracknell’s recent post on the targeting of ISIL oil transport trucks by the US in eastern Syria.
-
The UK Parliament is in the midst of a tumultuous debate over whether British forces should participate in airstrikes on Syrian territory. Thus far, the debate has featured frequent calls for Prime Minis...
-
The third in our series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take this evening at 5:00 pm, when I interview Edward Lucas of the Economist about his new book, Cyberphobia...
-
Is the internet really worth it? Our guest for episode 91, Jason Healey of the Atlantic Council and Columbia University, recaps a study finding that, even with a worst-case Clockwork Orange Internet, th...
-
Earlier I wrote a short primer on refugee law for those who follow this blog. It seems worthwhile to follow up with the news that yesterday several former national security officials sent a letter to Se...
-
As proof of the dramatic impact the Paris attacks have had in Europe, the German cabinet has approved plans to contribute forces to the fight against the Islamic State in Syria. With the parliament expec...
-
A few weeks ago, I took note of the comments of China-cybersecurity expert James Lewis to the effect that those much-derided US indictments of PLA hackers had actually had a big impact of Chinese cyber-s...
-
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has released the names of the first five Amici Curiae that will serve the Court as part of reforms enacted under the USA Freedom Act. The list, effective Novem...
-
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck comes on the show to talk about jihadism in Algeria. Some of the topics covered include:
-
Here is the December 2015 supplement for my casebook with Curtis Bradley, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials, (5th ed. 2014).
-
I have an op-ed in tomorrow’s New York Times explaining why I think we’re at a critical moment in the regulation of the global Internet. States are increasingly asserting territorial control over the In...
-
On Wednesday, November 25th, President Barack Obama signed the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act into law.
In addition to the added and renewed restrictions (sections 1031 and 1032) on the presid...
-
Fallout from Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian fighter jet last Tuesday continues.
-
Here are ten good reasons you should not forget to include Lawfare in your end-of-year giving plans:
Lawfare is far less irritating about asking you for money than your local NPR affiliate.
The...
-
On midnight of November 29th, the NSA stopped its bulk collection of telephony metadata once authorized under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. Under the USA Freedom Act, which Congress passed in June,...
-
Today's fascinating piece by Matthew Waxman and Doron Hindin, "How Does Israel Regulate Encryption?," raises a number of questions in my mind, two of which I put out to readers by way of soliciting infor...
-
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
-
Recent terrorist attacks and resulting questions about the limits of surveillance have rekindled debate about how governments should deal with the challenges of powerful, commercially available encryptio...