Snowbound: A Lawfare Link Round-up
It’s been a busy January. Fortunately, the weather gods have blessed our readers on the Eastern seaboard with a bunch of snow and nothing to do but catch up on Lawfare. If you’re snowed in, here’s a handy link round-up of stories you may have missed thus far in 2016.
We brought you the latest on the South China Sea and maritime law:
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It’s been a busy January. Fortunately, the weather gods have blessed our readers on the Eastern seaboard with a bunch of snow and nothing to do but catch up on Lawfare. If you’re snowed in, here’s a handy link round-up of stories you may have missed thus far in 2016.
We brought you the latest on the South China Sea and maritime law:
- Why Does the U.S. Demand Innocent Passage in the South China Sea, But Not in the Persian Gulf?
- Taiwan’s U.S. Defense Guarantee is Not Strong, But It Isn’t That Weak Either
- Secretary Carter Illuminates the South China Sea FONOP
- Submarines and the Law of Espionage
Plus, Water Wars returned:
- Water Wars: Taiwanese Election Serves as Rebuke to PRC
- Water Wars: Beijing Faces Further Pushback over Moves in the Asian Pacific
- Water Wars: A Month of Simmering Tensions to Ring in the New Year
At least Guantanamo is warm:
- A Defense Against Accusations of Heroism
- A Meeting of the Minds: A Formula for Closing Guantanamo
- Congress’s New Tactic to Keep Refugees Out and Guantanamo Open
- GTMO in the SOTU
- Abstention in Nashiri: The Government Responds
- The Nashiri Merits: Do Military Commissions Have Jurisdiction Over Pre-9/11 Crimes?
From Omphalos, the Middle East conflict in perspective:
- Syria: Starvation as a Tactic of War
- A Syrian Response to Obama's Final State of the Union
- Dispatch #1: Tragic Choices in a Lebanon Overwhelmed
- Reflections on Counterterrorism After a Visit to the Israeli Borders with Syria and Egypt
- The Issues Behind Israel's NGO Law
- Attacks on Medical Facilities in Yemen: Should Medical Humanitarians Stay?
In cybersecurity, we’re nervous about nukes:
- Are Nuclear Power Plants At Cyber Risk?
- On the Nuclear Threat Initiative's Report on Cybersecurity Risks at Nuclear Plants
And we took a deep-dive on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act:
- CISA in Context: Privacy Protections and the Portal
- CISA in Context: The Voluntary Sharing Model and that "Other" Portal
- CISA in Context: Government Use and What Really Matters for Civil Liberties
Then had a chat about lawful hacking:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Device Hacking and the Law
- Be Careful What You Wish For: A Response
- On Vendor-Installed Wiretaps for Smart Devices
Plus, some other Bits and Bytes:
- A Law Enforcement Innovation Initiative?
- Ukraine Down Again/Robots Lost/Attribution for the Future
- On Cyber, Not a Peep from the President
- Another Cyber War Event?
- Reflections on “It’s not a technical issue. It’s a business model question”
Our adventures in Estonia:
- Estonian Digital Residency Update
- Estonian Digital Residency Update II
- Estonian Digital Residency Update III: Wherein My Application is Granted!
We pondered Iran and the ICC:
- Iran’s Photographs of Navy Sailors: A War Crime (Or “Just” An Outrage?)
- What Has Iran Done Now? A Primer on Recent Iranian Missile Tests and Sanctions
- U.S. Settlement of Iran Claims Tribunal Claim was Prudent but Possible Linkage to Release of Americans Is Regrettable
- USG Concerns with the ICC Aggression Amendments
- British War Crimes Investigations and the ICC's Shadow
- Who's Afraid of Aggression Prosecutions?
We’ve talked plenty of Domestic Law and Policy:
- Are Top-level Domains Property?
- Obama's Legacy: Law, Transparency, and the Politics of Anguish
- Mistaken Identity: The True Scope of Islamophobia
- Amending the Uniform Code of Military Justice to Mirror Civilian Courts
- New National Security Tool Activated At Challenging Time
- FAA Drone Regulations: What’s Left for States?
- The Obama WPR Letters, 2009-2015
Plus, we did all the lawyers’ work in the Twitter lawsuit. You’re welcome.
- Twitter, ISIS, and Civil Liability
- Did Congress Immunize Twitter Against Lawsuits for Supporting ISIS?
Finally, you can cozy up with this year’s foreign policy essays:
- Djibouti’s First, But Will it Last?
- Sana’a: Iran’s Fourth Arab Capital?
- Is Time Really on China's Side? What the Economic Slowdown Means for Future Chinese Power
Or have a drink with the gang from Rational Security:
- Rational Security: The "We're Golden" Edition
- Rational Security: The "State of the Union is Pretty Chill" Edition
- Rational Security: The "Red Rover" Edition
Stay safe and warm!
