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Over at the Washington Post, columnist Eugene Robinson has a piece decrying the morality of drone strikes---a piece that expresses with an admirable economy of words nearly every conceptual error one can...
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As we've noted, amendments spanning several issues, including cybersecurity, and anti-terrorism laws, have been put forth as add-ons to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.
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When the Senate returns on December 9 to take up the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the more than 500 amendments Senators will consider is a provision that would amend the Anti-Terrorism Act ...
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Cyberwar is all the rage, and with it, questions abound on what new technologies may mean for society and---Lawfare's specialties---the implications of these technologies on surveillance, privacy, intell...
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Given all the discussion around China's controversial announcement this past week of an "Air Defense Identification Zone" in the East China Sea, it seems like a good moment for a Reading on the law and s...
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About a month ago, I asked what had happened to the UN’s effort to develop a set of standard operating procedures to govern detentions that arise during the course of UN operations. It appears that such...
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Over at opinio juris, Duncan Hollis has an interesting post about whether the agreement reached with Iran on early Sunday morning is legally binding. (I do disagree with Duncan’s title: the “new U.S.-Ir...
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Clive Walker of the University of Leeds writes in with the following update on national security law news from Britain:
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A few hours ago, the United States and five world powers reached an agreement with Iran to freeze and even roll back aspects of its nuclear program. Iran pops up on Lawfare from time to time, in part bec...
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As I mentioned the other day, I have asked my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman to curate a new feature on Lawfare: A weekly essay, to run on Sundays, on foreign and military affairs topics of interest to...
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Tahrir Square, November 19, 2013.
As you enter Mohamed Mahmoud Street from Tahrir Square, a sign reads, “The borders of Egypt. Entry is prohibited for Muslim Brotherhood, Army and remnants of the Mubara...
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Over at the Brookings Iran@Saban blog, my colleague Daniel Byman---who has agreed to curate a foreign policy essay feature for Lawfare (more on that later)---has this interesting essay on "Iran's Terrori...