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Yesterday, I was up at Harvard Law School on a panel with Gabriella Blum talking about our new book: The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat.
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I have an op-ed in the International New York Times today entitled “Make ISIS’ Leaders Face Justice” in which I argue that the UN Security Council should refer the Islamic State to the International Crim...
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Remember these words the next time the New York Times runs a pious editorial decrying---with a spurious combination of selective facts and distorted law---some morally complicated aspect of U.S.
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As Paul Rosenzweig noted earlier today in Lawfare, the President just signed out an Executive Order that can result in the imposition of financial sanctions on a variety of bad actors that ply their trad...
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Last night’s deadline for a political agreement on Iran’s nuclear program came and went with no news of a deal. Talks, however, continue. The Hill reports that, according to a State Department spokeswoma...
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President Obama has, today, issued an executive order entitled, "Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities." On first glance it looks like a str...
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We have not paid enough attention to the significance of the administration’s legal argument in support of the Bergdahl trade for President Obama’s goal of closing GTMO. The Article II logic in the admi...
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The recent “2014 Gaza War Assessment: The New Face of Conflict” deserves careful reading and consideration by all LOAC scholars and practitioners. The report was written by five richly experienced retir...
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From the baker of hard national security choices, who once brought you the "drone strike cake"---called "notorious" by Rolling Stone magazine---it's the Zero Dark Thirtieth Birthday Cake:
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This evening, at 6:45 pm, Intelligence Squared US is holding a debate on the resolution: "The president has exceeded his constitutional authority by waging war without congressional authorization." Argui...
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Episode 60 of the Cyberlaw Podcast features Paul Rosenzweig, founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC and Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Most importantly he was a superb Deputy Assistant Secretary f...
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A British think tank called Policy Exchange has released a very interesting report on judicialization of British warfare. Entitled "Clearing the Fog of Law: Saving Our Armed Forces from Defeat by Judicia...
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In advance of tonight’s midnight deadline, nuclear negotiators in Switzerland have been working hard and working late. Yesterday, U.S.
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Ten years ago today, on March 31, 2005, the U.N. Security Council adopted resolution 1593, which referred the situation in Darfur, Sudan, to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for investi...
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This morning, Gabriella Blum and I had the pleasure of appearing on the Diane Rehm Show to discuss The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat.
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Shots were fired this morning at Fort Meade after two people in a vehicle attempted to ram a gate leading to the National Security Agency. The Washington Post reports that one person was killed and at le...
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There has been surprisingly little discussion about the international legal justification for the airstrikes in Yemen that are being led by the Saudis. Other than a Just Security post that tackles some o...
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Editor’s Note: North Korea has long been a thorny problem for the United States as an erratic nuclear power that threatens America’s regional allies. Yet the problem may be even bigger for China, which h...
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In recent years, analysts have devoted much attention to the fact that China continues to increase its defense spending by double-digit percentages annually. They have also focused on fiscal constraints ...
