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Earlier this month, the Federalist Society held a symposium on national security in Washington at the D.C. office of Jones Day.
Video from the sessions is now available.
Here is panel #1--on detention,...
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Greg Miller at the Washington Post reports on the CIA's efforts to expand its drone campaign in Yemen. The agency requests that it be permitted to strike based solely on intelligence indicating suspiciou...
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Several readers have made the good suggestion of creating a list of the "formal" or even (arguably, meaning in the opinion of the Readings Editor) "canonical" statements of the Obama administration regar...
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We are delighted to announce three important new voices joining Lawfare's cadre of senior contributors.
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Published by James Currey (London UK 2011)
Reviewed by Tom Porteous
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This looks like a very interesting event:
The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law
and the
Journal of National Security Law and Policy
Cordially invite you to a lively discussion of the J...
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Over @ SSRN, Carlos Vazquez and I have posted our forthcoming article on "State Law, the Westfall Act, and the Nature of the Bivens Question After Minneci v.
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CIA General Counsel Stephen is giving the following remarks today at Harvard Law School:
Remarks of
The Honorable Stephen W. Preston
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Harvard Law School
Cambri...
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The rise of new technologies such as drones, enabling more discrete surveillance and uses of force, is one factor prompting new interest in covert action (used in a colloquial sense).
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I'm pleased to announce that we have now added an Upcoming Events Calendar to Lawfare. In recent months, a great many organizations, individuals, and groups have asked us to post announcements on the blo...
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Every spring I am eager to endorse the National Security Law Institute, which this year will convene for the 20th straight year under the auspices of John Norton Moore and Bob Turner’s Center for Nationa...
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Brookings hosted an
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As we noted yesterday, charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohmammed and his alleged co-conspirators have been referred in a military commission. This follows the new charges and additional victims we noticed ...
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Bobby and Jack and I started Lawfare a year and a half ago on a lark. We imagined it as a forum for incidental writing that did not quite rise to the level of an oped. None of us imagined the role Lawfar...
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The chief prosecutor for military commission, Brig. General Mark Martins, is at this hour delivering the following address at the Harvard Law School--the latest in a series of speeches he has given on th...
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For our D.C.-area readers, AU's student-run National Security Law Brief is hosting its annual symposium this Thursday here at the Washington College of Law.
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The Brookings Institution is holding a Lawfare-heavy event next week that is sure to pique the interest of our readers: The Impact of Domestic Drones on Privacy, Safety and National Security. Ben, Paul, ...
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John Rizzo, formerly acting General Counsel to the CIA (and now a visiting fellow of the Hoover Institution, where he is working on a memoir) has a short piece on the practicalities of the reporting regi...
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For interested D.C.-area readers, we're hosting what should be a fascinating panel discussion here at American University Washington College of Law next Tuesday (March 27), from 1-3 p.m., on "U.S. and Is...
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In a characteristically thougtful essay over at Slate, and building on themes in his new book, Jack returns to a familiar argument--that the extent to which the Obama Administration has embraced military...