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If you are around DC on Thursday, November 8, and have an interest in cyberwarfare and law, the AU International Law Journal and National Security Law Brief are jointly presenting a program at Washington...
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Readers probably won't be surprised that, as Professor Andrew Kent noted at the end of his guest post, I've already drafted a longer response to Andrew's important and provocative new essay, "Do Boumedie...
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No, it wasn't a cyber-attack. I was doing some work on the Wiki Document Library and accidentally password protected the entire site. Thanks to those of you who brought this to my attention, and apologie...
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Particularly astute readers who have been carefully combing the site over the past five minutes may have noticed that our "search" bar has changed subtly and now includes check boxes that allow users to ...
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I'm very pleased to announce that the 6th Annual National Security Law Workshop will take place May 16-17, 2013, at the U.S. Army JAG School in Charlottesville, VA! The call for papers and attendees is ...
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Well, that didn't take long. Yesterday, I posted a wiki job board on Lawfare so that people who are hiring in the field of national security law could reach those looking for work in the field. I expecte...
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People looking to hire in national security law often send us job announcements to post, and folks looking for jobs frequently get in touch thinking---usually wrongly---that we can help. We should do mor...
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Over the weekend, Israel announced that it had shot down a drone that had penetrated its airspace.
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Captain Brittany Warren, a US Army JAG who has just completed her JD at GW Law School, has an article appearing in the Military Law Review (Vol. 212, 2012, p. 133, link is to jagcnet.army.mil), "The Case...
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I am sometimes asked what academic journals I would recommend for research in terrorism and political violence studies from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. Two stand out, although unfor...
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As many Lawfare readers know, John Witt has recently published a book called Lincoln’s Code. The book is about, among many other things, the history of the laws of war in the United States, especially i...
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The question of when an armed conflict is underway for purposes of triggering the Geneva Conventions and other relevant law of war is not in principle difficult in the case inter-state international arme...
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Reviewed by Amy Sennett
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, by David E. Sanger (Crown 2012)
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The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law just posted the following job opportunity:
National Security Law Fellowship
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Here's an opportunity for law students to intern at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School's Liberty and National Security Program. The Brennan Center emails: We are looking for outstanding...
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Published by Oxford University Press (2012)
Reviewed by Rick Wilson
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Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the State Department, delivered an important speech yesterday, September 18, at the U.S. Cyber Command Inter-Agency Legal Conference on the applicability of international law...
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post reports that the Taliban is increasingly focusing on “conducting audacious attacks against prominent targets across the country, including the U.S.
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My post about the possible use of Facebook's Comment utility on Lawfare has generated no particular groundswell of either enthusiasm or opposition. But the Lawfare Ruling Triumverate has decide that it s...
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Here are a few upcoming events---which I have added to the Lawfare Events Calendar---but to which I wanted to draw the attention of readers who might be in New York or California.
Conference on Emerging...