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Sextortion: The Problem and Solutions
Prosecutors colloquially call it “sextortion.” Legally speaking, there’s no such thing. The word is a kind a prosecutorial slang for a class of cases that do not correspond neatly with any known crimina... -
Brookings Webcast on Sextortion, Cybersecurity and Privacy
This morning Benjamin Wittes hosted an online webcast previewing two new Brookings studies on "sextortion," a new form of remote sexual assault. Danielle Citron and Carrie A. Goldberg also offered their... -
Event Announcement: "Sextortion: Remote Sexual Assault"
Next Wednesday, May 11, Brookings is holding an online event to release a pair of papers on which I and a team of Lawfare folks have spent a great deal of time over the last several months. The subject i... -
Twitter, ISIS, Civil Liability, and Immunity: An Update
A few months ago, Zoe Bedell and I wrote a series of posts about Twitter and potential liability -
Bob Litt on "The Fourth Amendment in the Information Age"
Office of the Director of National Intelligence General Counsel Robert Litt has published a new essay in The Yale Law Journal that will likely be of interest to Lawfare readers. Entitled "The Fourth Amen... -
Does the Iran Deal Require the USG to Seek Preemption of (Some) State Sanctions?
The U.S. government has sent a letter to all 50 states asking them to align state and local laws with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that the United States and other nations negotiated wi... -
Action at Guantanamo?
Don't look now, but something's happening in the Guantanamo litigation. -
Delta Electroniks -- A Case Study
It often seems to me that the details of cyber conflict tradecraft are lost in a bit of obscurity. Most Lawfare readers probably haven't given a thought to how attribution is done. To that end, I offer... -
Vulnerability Isn't Always Failure
Next Tuesday I’ll have a conversation with Juliette Kayyem at the Hoover Institution in Washington about her terrific new book Security Mom. (Please join us!) One of the book’s central themes is the im... -
What Does it Mean to Sponsor Terrorism?
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz. -
Supreme Court Rules in Bank Markazi v. Peterson: Congress Did Not Exceed its Power and Victims Can Collect
Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Bank Markazi v. Peterson, a case we previewed last year when the Court first asked for the opinion of the Solicitor General during the certiorari pro... -
Executive Power and the SCOTUS Argument on President Obama’s Immigration Plan
If the Supreme Court in United States v. Texas finds that Texas has standing to challenge President Obama’s immigration plan (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA)), the Court will have to addr...
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