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This event tomorrow morning is sure to be timely and of great interest to Lawfarers in the area:
Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection
An Address by General C...
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Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, will speak at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Brookings Institution's Saul-Zilkha auditorium. Unsurprisingly given recent events, Litt's ...
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I thought readers might be interested in knowing about a workshop that will take place later this week at Oxford, under the joint sponsorship of Oxford's Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and ...
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A Brookings event from the other day, hosted by the other Brookings Wittes.
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Laura Dean continued her online Cairo diary, chronicling the goings-on in Egypt. Read all her posts here.
A lot of legal fireworks went off at Guantanamo this week: U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kess...
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The transatlantic dialog on security matters often has a frustrating ships-passing-in-the-night quality to it. So I was interested to see this unusually constructive and valuable policy paper on drones a...
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Nathan Myhrvold writes in with the following addendum to his paper, "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action," which we published the other day:
In the days since Ben posted my paper, I've been asked a fa...
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It was a somewhat light week for us here at Lawfare---though an exceedingly tumultuous one, obviously, for Egypt.
We covered the latter's unrest and coup by means of an exciting and experimental feature...
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A few weeks ago, I found myself at dinner in Seattle with a man named Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, for readers who have never heard of him, is the founder and CEO of a company called Intellectual Ventures.
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This is an experiment---one that pushes the boundaries of what Lawfare is all about: We seem to have a correspondent in Cairo.
For those readers who haven't noticed, Egypt is exploding once again. I'm n...
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Lawfare topics took a backseat in the news this week, what with the Supreme Court's attention-grabbing week. The justices were too busy with same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act, and affirmative acti...
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Only a small number of Lawfare readers have ever heard of Michael Broukhim, but he has played an important role in the development of this site. Broukhim is an internet entrepreneur who was, when we were...
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This afternoon, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security will present a panel discussion entitled "NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts and Fiction."
The event will be hos...
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We are pleased to announce that over the last few weeks, Lawfare---which began as a collaborative project of its three founders with no formal organizational structure---has become a non-profit corporati...
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We are very pleased to announce Lawfare's first e-book, Lawfare on the National Defense Authorization Acts, which is now available in Kindle format on Amazon for $4.99.
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The age of international and transnational terrorism came to prominence in the late 1960s and 70s, and then kicked into high gear in the 1980s, particularly where terrorists were supported by, and someti...
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Lawfare readers probably already know that we had a few technical difficulties this week that resulted in the site's being intermittently inaccessible for a couple of days. We hope we're past all of that...
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For those readers who haven't noticed, Lawfare has been experiencing significant technical difficulties over the past 36 hours---intermittent outages ranging from a few minutes to, in a couple of cases, ...
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I'm pleased to announce two new collections of resources for the Lawfare Wiki Document Library. Thanks to Alan Rozenshtein, we now have a page devoted to war powers---which includes everything from decla...