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The Foreign Policy Essay: A Better Response to the Foreign Fighter Threat
In January 2014, two French teenage boys ran away from their homes in Toulouse in search of adventure. Like a few hundred other young Frenchmen and over 2,000 Europeans, they looked for that adventure in... -
The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #100: Shane Harris @War
Shane Harris, national security writer for the Daily Beast, was the first ever guest on the Lawfare Podcast, back when it was the most experimental of features. -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
This week at Lawfare, a debate over President Obama’s stated support for a new AUMF to deal with ISIS dominated our content. -
Seeking Consensus on AUMFs
[Cross-posted at Just Security] The three of us have coauthored an Op-Ed in Sunday’s Washington Post on the topic of congressional authorization for the use of force against ISIL and the 2001 AUMF. We ... -
OHCHR Report Uses First-Hand Accounts to Describe ISIS "Rule of Terror" in Syria
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has just released a report on the condition of civilians living under ISIS rule. The document is based largely on first-hand victim and witness ac... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
On the same day that ISIS’s Chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, re-emerged in a 17-minute audio recording, the United States’ top general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. -
Why Does the AUMF Debate Even Matter?
Midday yesterday, I ran into a prominent national security reporter on the street near Brookings. The conversation quickly turned, as conversations tend to turn in our circles in Washington these days, t... -
The .IR, .KP and .SY Domains Are "Safe"
A couple of months ago, I noted an interesting law suit brought by several victims of terrorist attacks. They had secured default money judgments against Iran, North Korea and Syria for those country’s a... -
CRS Analysis of AUMF Proposals
Via Secrecy News, I see that the CRS has summarized and analyzed the seven proposals in Congress for a New AUMF. -
The Legal Consequences of Islamic State + Al Qaeda Cooperation, and Implications for AUMF Reform
Deb Riechman at AP is reporting: Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work ... -
Throwback Thursday: The Sykes-Picot Agreement
Editor's note: For quite a while now, social media enthusiasts have been using the hashtag #tbt (or, in long-form, “Throwback Thursday”) as a way to reminisce about the past. Now Lawfare has decided to g... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #42: An Interview with Orin Kerr
We share the program this week with Orin Kerr, a regular guest who knows at least as much as we do about most of these topics and who jumps in on many of them. Orin, of course, is a professor of law at ...
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