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Two upcoming events at the Brookings Institution that are salient to a lot of the issues we discuss on Lawfare:
Pakistan on the Edge: The Future of Pakistan and the U.S. Response
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I have three major events in connection with my book this week.
Tonight at 6 p.m., the Harvard Book Store will be hosting an event at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge. Discussants will be Harvard profe...
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The Federalist Society's upcoming (April 5) national security and law symposium features an array of great speakers, including Ben and Steve. Details below:
2012 National Security Symposium
Internatio...
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On the heels of a meeting between U.S. and Pakistan officials, Pakistan has announced that it will no longer permit the United States to use its airspace for drone attacks. Bloomberg's Indira A.R.
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Peter Margulies, professor at Roger Williams University school of law and FOL ("Friend of Lawfare") who occasionally contributes commentary to this blog, has a new paper up at SSRN: "Valor's Vices: Aga...
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That exciting fact comes to me thanks to Jacob Sternberger, who last year won the Lawfare competition to parody the New York Times editorial on the Al Aulaqi strike. Sternberger, a senior at Dickinson Co...
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Published by University of Kansas Press (2012)
Reviewed by Benjamin Kleinerman
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See this event announcement from Georgetown University Law Center:
The National Security Law Society
Presents:
Defining "National Security" for the 21st Century
Monday, March 12 at 4pm in Gewirz Studen...
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Published by Harvard University Press (2010)
Reviewed by Alan G. Kaufman
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Okay, all you graphic designers out there: Lawfare needs a logo.
We have these three online locations--our Twitter feed (which you should follow), our Facebook Page (which you should "like"), and our po...
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In late January, Daniel Klaidman reported that the administration was inclined to have Attorney General Holder give a major speech specifying additional details regarding the legal framework governing th...
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An irony of contemporary intellectual discourse is that the sharpest critique of the international human rights movement - or at least the critique of its foundational myths - is found these days in the ...
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Sudan and newly-independent South Sudan have featured in many news stories over the last several years; a headline in today's Washington Post, for example, reads "South Sudan: Sudan bombed 2 oil wells in...
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I just noticed this video of Jeh Johnson's speech at Yale Law School, the text of which I have already posted:
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I've blogged before about S.
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Along with the earlier reading on drones in Pakistan by Pia Zubair Shah in Foreign Policy, also check out Council on Foreign Relations fellow Micah Zenko's short piece in the same March-April 2012 issue,...
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Brookings scholars Kenneth Lieberthal and Peter W. Singer have just released a paper entitled "Cybersecurity and U.S.-China Relations." It opens as follows:
There is perhaps no relationship as significan...
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Journalist Pir Zubair Shah writes in the March-April 2012 issue of Foreign Policy. My Drone War: American drones have changed everything for al Qaeda and its local allies in Pakistan, becoming a fact of ...
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For those interested in the ongoing academic debate over the rationale and implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene, I have a new (short) piece in the Iowa Law Review Bulletin respondin...
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The technological frontiers of conflict include cyberwar, robotics, and autonomous lethal weapons. It is time to add a new one: the use of neuroscience in conflict. Whether by creating new weapons to be...