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A brief update for sports fans who follow the fierce international competition of, uh, Lawfare readership: Pakistan's brief stint on the medal podium in this admittedly obscure sport seems to have come t...
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Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
Prisoners in War Ed. Sibylle Scheipers (Oxford 2010)
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Over the past month, according to data from Google Analytics, Lawfare's readership has hailed overwhelmingly--as always--from the United States (nearly 86 percent of visitors). Readers from the United Ki...
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Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
Noam Lubell, Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors (Oxford 2010)
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That's something nobody will ever be able to take away from you.
UPDATE: Too late. Somone beat you to it. That someone--Lawfare's 500th Facebook "Like"--is one Kathryn Cameron Porter, who has Lawfare's ...
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THE 5th ANNUAL NATIONAL SECURITY LAW FACULTY WORKSHOP
May 17-18, 2012
Houston, TX
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To our more devoted readers: blogging will be on the lighter side today because Ben and Bobby are speaking at the Defense Department's 8th Annual Worldwide Detainee Conference. Do not fear though--things...
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For those who care about this site's traffic data (people ask me about it sometimes): According to Google Analytics, yesterday was the highest-traffic day in the history of Lawfare--with nearly 10,400 pe...
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As I've noted before (including this morning), I’ve been at work for some time on a paper exploring the legal issues generated by the convergence of military and intelligence activities and institutions—...
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Published by Hoover Institution Press (2011)
Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
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A friend in the intelligence community, using sophisticated data-mining techniques of a sort that threaten our civil liberties (namely, checking the D.C. government's web site), has learned that nobody h...
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From the President of GWU Law's National Security Law Association:
The ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security and GW Law School's National Security Law Association are organizing a National ...
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Charlie Savage of the New York Times has a long essay, available on Amazon (for 99 cents), called Power Wars: Unmasking National Security Legal Policy Deliberations Under Bush & Obama. The essay is adap...
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Video from last night's speech by John O. Brennan is now available. We will be posting a better video as soon as it has been formatted, but this one will do in the meantime.
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Beginning this afternoon, the Harvard Law School-Brookings Project on Law and Security will host its inaugural event: "Law, Security, and Liberty after 9/11: Looking to the Future." It will take place at...
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Published by Oxford University Press (2011)
Reviewed by Alice Diana Beauheim
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Steve Vladeck is a professor of law (and Associate Dean for Scholarship) at American University Washington College of Law. Steve is the author of many terrific articles relating to national security an...
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Published by Cambridge University Press (2010)
Reviewed by Jennifer C. Daskal
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Jonathan Hafetz, a habeas lawyer and law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law and the author of Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System, writes in with th...
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John Rizzo, former acting general counsel for CIA, writes in with the following in connection with Lawfare's 9/11 10th Anniversary Project. This essay is adapted from a longer piece, entitled "9/11: Thre...