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Don't forget to register for this year's event, scheduled for October 31-November 1 at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington.
Here are all the details, including the agenda and list of speakers.
23rd Annual Re...
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My colleague at The George Washington University Law School, Lori Fossum, has just published a Cyber Conflict Bibliography. For those interested in cybersecurity (and particularly cyber warfare) it is a...
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In response to the government shutdown at home, President Obama decided last week to cancel his planned participation in a series of Asian and Pacific summits.
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Ashley Deeks (UVA and Lawfare) has posted a book chapter to SSRN, "Domestic Humanitarian Law: Developing the Law of War in Domestic Courts," which will appear in D. Jinks, J. Maogoto, S. Solomon (eds.), ...
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Mary DeRosa and Marty Lederman, both of whom were senior national security lawyers in the Obama administration, have a helpful if somewhat hopeful post at Just Security on the significance of the recent ...
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Bruce Riedel, Director of the Intelligence Project, hosted Matt Apuzzo at the Brookings Institution for a discussion of his new book “Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s ...
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UVA's (and Lawfare's own) Ashley Deeks has posted a new article to SSRN, "The Observer Effect: National Security Litigation, Policy Changes, and Judicial Deference," forthcoming (November 2013) in Fordha...
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Here is a quick update in New York Times v. Department of Justice. That's the Second Circuit case regarding the DOJ's responses to Freedom of Information Act requests, filed by the New York Times and Am...
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One of the most significant questions in cyberspace is the long term governance of the domain. For years the United States has had an influential role in that governance (mostly, in my view, to the bene...
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The big news heading into this week was that the U.S. conducted two nearly-simultaneous raids in Africa.
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Politico's Josh Gerstein reports:
A federal judge has rejected an attempt by defense lawyers to challenge the Obama administration's decision to hold alleged Al Qaeda member Abu Anas Al-Libi aboard a U.S...
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On a technical level, building secure software is really hard---but that's an argument for, not against, an intelligently designed liability regime.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The O.P.C.W. was founded in 1977 and was recently deployed to Syria after chem...
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So reports the Wall Street Journal. As one of my colleagues commented "is anyone surprised?" Here's the lede:
Germany’s foreign intelligence service acknowledged tapping data flowing through a key Fran...
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Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a piece suggesting that folks at NSA feel abandoned by President Obama's failure to defend the agency aggressively:
Gen. Keith Alexander and his senior leadership...
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An intriguing development in a Guantanamo-related case ongoing during the government shutdown: detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam, who challenges Guantanamo transfer restrictions as incompatible with the Constitu...
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While no navy captain likes stormy weather, the controversy over the temporary detention on a navy vessel of the captured Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi is a tempest in a teapot. As John Bellinger not...
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Today the Committee to Protect Journalists published a very critical report on the Obama administration’s efforts to crack down on leakers and control the flow of secret information from government offic...
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A few weeks ago the NYT had a piece by David Sanger about how the Snowden revelations will hurt if not kill the NSA’s ambitious plans for cybersecurity defense in the U.S. homeland. “Administration offi...
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The United States Government has announced that it will withhold certain military and economic aid from Egypt until substantive democratic progress is made in the country. Here is the text of a State Dep...