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The American Enterprise Institute held an event yesterday entitled “Watching ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ with the CIA: Separating fact from fiction.” According to the event description, the discussion centered ar...
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Trouble continues in Mali. French-led forces have seized the Timbuktu airport from militants, and although it is really cool that there actually is a Timbuktu, it is decidedly not cool that fighting cont...
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A while back, I posted about a forthcoming article by Carlos Vázquez (Georgetown) and me on the relationship between Bivens remedies and state law, especially in national security cases.
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Alan Backstrom and Ian Henderson have a new draft working paper at SSRN, "New Capabilities in warfare: an overview of contemporary technological developments and the associated legal and engineering issu...
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Brookings is hosting Gen. Stanley McChrystal today from 10:00 am EST-11:30 am EST. Here is the link to the live webcast. For those who cannot tune in, we will be posting the full video and the full audio...
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This should pique the interest of our local readers:
Killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and His Legacy: A Discussion with General Stanley A. McChrystal
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Despite the unsurprising focus on domestic policy in President Obama’s second inaugural address today, his speech was not entirely devoid of national security issues. “We will defend our people and uphol...
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Many Lawfare readers have probably seen notices or reviews of Max Boot's brand-new book on the history of guerrilla warfare, Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to t...
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Three more new additions to the Lawfare news feed:
Wired's Threat Level blog, which covers online privacy and crime;
Foreign Policy's Killer Apps blog, which will---unfortunately---only appear on the ...
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The American Society of International Law has released a new "ASIL Insight" on law applicable to autonomous weapon systems. (ASIL Insights are short, descriptive pieces on topical issues meant as non-te...
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It's that time of year again...Duke Law's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security's Annual Conference.
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Columbia Law School scholar and former State Department lawyer Rebecca Ingber has posted to SSRN a new article forthcoming in the Yale Journal of International Law, "Interpretation Catalysts and Executiv...
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I have added several new feeds to the Lawfare News Feed:
The Washington Post's national security feed;
The Long War Journal;
The
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Lawfare readers might be interested to follow a Volokh Conspiracy online debate between Lawfare senior contributor/NYU professor Rick Pildes and Volokh blogger/Georgetown professor Nick Rosenkranz on whe...
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For all those law students---and others---in the Washington area interested in helping us build the Lawfare Wiki Document Library, come on over to Georgetown Law (Room 206 in McDonough) this Friday to ta...
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John Brennan, nominated by President Obama to become the next CIA director, will apparently face some tough questioning from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at his Senate confirmation hearings (reportedly set f...
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My excitement over Shane Harris's new blog, Dead Drop, provides a catalyst for an action I have been meaning to take for some time: creating an automated page on Lawfare for outside news feeds of particu...
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In this special episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Military Commission Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins discusses his decision to recommend dropping conspiracy charges against Khalid Sheikh M...
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Former UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legal Adviser Daniel Bethlehem has just published an important piece in the latest issue of the American Journal of International Law. The article, entitled “Sel...
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Lawfare, the web's premier source for news and analysis in national security law, is seeking interested and highly motivated law students to help build Lawfare's emerging Wiki library. Successful candida...