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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Special Counsel Protection
Today at 10:00 am, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled 'Special Counsels and the Separation of Powers' to consider two bills that are designed to protect special counsels from wro... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Robots and Cyber and Space, Oh My! The Pantsing of International Humanitarian Law
In a delightfully iconoclastic new book, Jeremy Rabkin and John Yoo take the air out of 75 years of inflated claims about the law of war. They do it, not for its own sake, though God knows that would be ... -
What’s Next for the Bundestag, Merkel and Germany’s Security Policies?
The results of the German federal election this weekend were at once unsurprising and worrisome. -
Reality Sets in for Federal Courts: The Travel Ban Was a ‘Temporary Pause’
After eight months, thousands of pages of briefing and three Supreme Court orders, the Trump administration has reiterated what had been its position all along: that a pause on the entry of immigrants fr... -
The New Travel Ban: Undermining the Immigration and Nationality Act
On September 24, President Trump issued a proclamation replacing Executive Order (EO) 13780 that is currently before the Supreme Court—albeit with oral argument cancelled pending briefs from both sides o... -
Cross-Border Data Access Primer
“Bad for public safety, bad for companies, and bad for privacy,” declared Paddy McGuinness, the United Kingdom’s deputy national security advisor about the current U.S.-U.K. cross-border data access syst... -
The Week That Will Be
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
North Korea’s foreign minister said that the U.S. had declared war after U.S. warplanes flew along the east coast of North Korea on Saturday in a show of force, the Wall Street Journal reported. Eight U.... -
Shrinking Anonymity in Chinese Cyberspace
The Chinese government is operationalizing President Xi Jinping’s concept of cyber sovereignty and implementing the country’s new Cybersecurity Law. Four regulations issued since late August show the lea... -
The South China Sea and China's "Four Sha" Claim: New Legal Theory, Same Bad Argument
The Washington Free Beacon reports that China may be backing away from its most controversial legal justification in the South China Sea: the “Nine-Dash Line.” Officials from the Chinese Ministry of Fore... -
Where Do Americans Stand on Military Action Against North Korea?
In his debut before the U.N. General Assembly last week, President Trump vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if the United States “is forced to defend itself or its allies.” Analysts are divided over ... -
The Internationalists vs. the Realists and Neocons
When we wrote "The Internationalists," our aim was not only to offer a novel account of how the world order took shape—that a largely forgotten treaty signed in 1928 to outlaw war set in motion a process...
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