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The Foreign Policy Essay: Your Enemy Has a Name—How the “Al Qaeda” Label is Leading U.S Policy Astray
Editor's Note: The United States has been at war since 9/11, but the nature of the enemy remains unclear. Some would say the war is against terrorists of all stripes, while others focus more narrowly on ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Two articles based on the cache of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden were published this week. On Sunday, Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, and Ashkan Soltani of the Washington Post reve... -
The Week that Will Be
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Calculated Caliphate
Editor’s Note: The conquest of Mosul and other cities in Iraq by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has alarmed the United States and its allies and electrified the Sunni jihadist community. On M... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Ahmed Abu Khattala, the suspect allegedly behind the attack on the American embassy in Libya, arrived in Washington this week. Bobby brought us the initial news, while Ben shared the government’s memo re... -
A Lawfare Farewell: Ritika Singh
Today is a sad day in the history of Lawfare; it marks the departure of Ritika Singh, our intrepid associate editor. Ritika has been a key part of Lawfare almost from its beginning. She started at the Br... -
Fall 2014 Lawfare Internship
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The Foreign Policy Essay: What's in a Name? Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Domestic Radicalization
Editor's Note: The war in Syria has attracted volunteers to fight from around the world, including from the United States. Although senior U.S. officials have warned of this threat, the legal foundation ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The week began with the Department of Justice’s release, under a Second Circuit court ruling, of a redacted version of an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo that outlined the government’s justification f... -
Readings: Civilian Intelligence Agencies and the Use of Armed Drones by Ian Henderson
Footnote 44 of the recently released and much-discussed OLC Awlaki memorandum is heavily redacted, but what's left reads, in part: Nor would the fact that CIA personnel would be involved in the operat... -
Global (Statutory) Habeas After <em>Aamer</em>
As my co-authors and I put the finishing touches on the 2014-15 Supplement to Aspen Publishers' National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks, I had another thought about the potential consequ... -
Readings: Through Our Glass Darkly: From 'Universal' to 'Extraterritorial'?
Apologies for Shameless Self-Promotion, but I wanted to mention an essay of mine that came out a couple of months ago as part of an excellent symposium on the work of Harvard Law School's comparative law...
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