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Readings: Can Non-State Actors Mount an Armed Attack? by Kimberly N. Trapp
Among the issues separating the American understanding of international law regarding transnational non-state actor armed groups from that of the "international community" (or at least an influential and... -
Cato Unbound Exchange on "The Snowden Files: One Year Later"
The Cato Institute is hosting an online exchange entitled "The Snowden Files: One Year Later." The lead essay, by Cato's Julian Sanchez, opens as follows: America’s first real debate about the 21st cent... -
House Hearings This Morning on FBI Oversight and Bergdahl Exchange
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Pakistani Taliban returned to Karachi’s international airport yesterday, after carrying out a deadly attack on Sunday night. -
Litigation Tactics from the China-Philippine South China Sea Arbitration
In the last month, the South China Sea dispute has heated up again – China has parked an oil rig off Vietnam’s coast, prompting anti-Chinese riots across Vietnam; a Vietnamese ship sank after being ramme... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #23: An Interview with Congressman Mike Pompeo
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Military Contractor Liability Returns to the Supreme Court
Whatever the merits of the increasing reliance upon private military contractors (PMCs) for tasks that have historically been the province of the U.S. military, one of the major issues such reliance has ... -
Readings: The Diffusion of Drone Warfare: Industrial, Infrastructural and Organizational Constraints by Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli
Political science graduate students Andrea Gilli (European Union Institute, Florence) and Mauro Gilli (Northwestern University, Evanston) have posted a new and provocative paper to SSRN--"The Diffusion o... -
What Values Does "Privacy" Protect?
The question long has confronted policymakers, advocates, scholars, technologists, and consumers. -
Allaithi v. Rumsfeld: D.C. Circuit Affirms
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit handed down its decision in Allaithi v. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Five American special operations soldiers and at least one Afghan service member were killed Monday night by friendly fire. In Southern Afghanistan's Zabul province, militants had attacked U.S. troops, w... -
Foreign Relations Law Casebook Update
Because Curtis Bradley and I have a new edition of our Foreign Relations Law casebook, we only have a slim summer update, here. It has an excerpt of B
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