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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, spoke at Brookings on Friday about surveillance law. Jane Chong and I had a great time previewing and then recapping the oral ar... -
ODNI GC Bob Litt Speaking at Brookings
Bob Litt, general counsel to the DNI, is speaking at the Brookings Institution at this hour on "Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection." His prepared remarks ar... -
Readings: Kevin Jon Heller Watches "Crossing Lines" for Its Imaginary International Criminal Law
"Crossing Lines" is a new NBC cop series this season that features ... well, here's the plot description at Wikipedia: Based in The Hague, a fictionalized version of the International Criminal Court's sp... -
Robert Litt at Brookings Tomorrow
This event tomorrow morning is sure to be timely and of great interest to Lawfarers in the area: Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection An Address by General C... -
DNI General Counsel to Speak at Brookings Tomorrow
Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, will speak at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Brookings Institution's Saul-Zilkha auditorium. Unsurprisingly given recent events, Litt's ... -
IHL and IHRL Discussions at Oxford this Week
I thought readers might be interested in knowing about a workshop that will take place later this week at Oxford, under the joint sponsorship of Oxford's Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and ... -
Egypt and Beyond: Military Intervention and the Democratic Process
A Brookings event from the other day, hosted by the other Brookings Wittes. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Laura Dean continued her online Cairo diary, chronicling the goings-on in Egypt. Read all her posts here. A lot of legal fireworks went off at Guantanamo this week: U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kess... -
Readings: Anthony Dworkin on "Drones and Targeted Killing: Defining a European Position"
The transatlantic dialog on security matters often has a frustrating ships-passing-in-the-night quality to it. So I was interested to see this unusually constructive and valuable policy paper on drones a... -
An Addendum from Nathan Myhrvold on Cyber
Nathan Myhrvold writes in with the following addendum to his paper, "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action," which we published the other day: In the days since Ben posted my paper, I've been asked a fa... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
It was a somewhat light week for us here at Lawfare---though an exceedingly tumultuous one, obviously, for Egypt. We covered the latter's unrest and coup by means of an exciting and experimental feature... -
Nathan Myhrvold on "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action" (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
A few weeks ago, I found myself at dinner in Seattle with a man named Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, for readers who have never heard of him, is the founder and CEO of a company called Intellectual Ventures.
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