A review of Curtis Bradley, “Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice” (Harvard University Press, 2024)

An impressionistic painting.

AI-powered surveillance facilitates authoritarianism across the globe. Here’s how courts and lawmakers could stop it from happening here.

The question at issue: whether a foreign sovereign must have minimum contacts with the U.S. before a court can assert personal jurisdiction over it.

A Joint Staff memorandum reviewed by Lawfare casts doubt on Secretary Hegseth’s claim that troops “hate” implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act.

NSPM-4, President Trump’s order on the military’s “mission for sealing the Southern Border,” obscures the fine-grained limits that ought to clearly and unambiguously regulate lethal force.

Trump’s efforts to force state cooperation on immigration raise pressing questions about the constitutional limits of federal authority.