Editor’s note: This piece provides an overview and interpretation of the Justice Department’s news media guidelines. For the authors’ consideration of how these guidelines
might work in practice, especially in edge cases, see here. [...]
Editor’s note: This piece provides an overview and interpretation of the Justice Department’s news media guidelines. For the authors’ consideration of how these guidelines
might work in practice, especially in edge cases, see here. [...]
The Hong Kong government has delivered yet another blow to human rights and the rule of law. On May 10, the Legislative Council amended the Legal Practitioners Ordinance (LPO)
to give the Hong Kong government the authority to bar overseas lawyers from participating in national security cases. [...]
Hacking and cybersecurity are evergreen issues, in the news and on Lawfare. Scott Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law
School, has a new book on how and why hacking works and what to do about it, called “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five [...]
In November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson came out in opposition to a compromise that would have resulted in Senate ratification of the Versailles Treaty and thereby put the
nail in the coffin of an international agreement that he had spent months negotiating and would have secured U.S. [...]
Editor's Note: The United States is in an era of great power competition, arming Ukraine against Russia and seeking to contain Chinese aggressiveness. But are U.S. policies
making the problem worse? My Brookings colleague Melanie Sisson argues that the Biden administration is militarizing its foreign policy and, in so doing, missing [...]
On May 19, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees the FBI’s surveillance authority known as Section 702, unsealed a memorandum opinion and order revealing
that the FBI improperly used the 702 database 278,000 times. The FBI improperly queried crime victims, suspects in the Jan. [...]
This week, Alan and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus (and Washington Post star reporter) Shane Harris to talk over the week's news! Including: For object lessons, Alan
recommended his annual reading on the Eurovision contest, Anthony Lane's 2010 New Yorker essay, "Only Mr. [...]
On May 18, the Supreme Court gave decisions for two cases relating to platforms' liability for terrorist material promulgated on their services. It decided in favor of Twitter
in Taamneh v. Twitter and sent Gonzalez v. Google back to the Ninth Circuit in light of its decision in Taamneh. [...]
On April 13, 2022, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes conducted his first “special military operation” at the Russian
embassy in Washington, DC. It involved 14 theater stage lights that Wittes and other activists used to project images of the Ukrainian flag onto embassy walls. [...]
Sanctions work, but targets adapt. Sanctions adaptation moves at the speed of modern business, which is often fast given the billions of dollars or euros involved. The new
Russian “International Companies”—denoted by the Russian acronym MK—are one such adaptation. [...]