Things are moving quickly. Just last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that House Democrats would begin drafting articles of impeachment against President Trump. And
now, Congressman Eliot Engel has said that an announcement on the articles of impeachment will come tomorrow, possibly as early as 9 a.m. [...]
The 14th Global Legal Skills Conference is being held later this week at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law. The 15th GLS Conference is scheduled for
May 2020 at the University of Bari in southern Italy. (mew) [...]
When you see folks crowing about errors in FISA applications and the misconduct described in the inspector general’s report released today, take a deep breath and try to
remember the allegations that sparked this review of the Russia investigation. It wasn’t that long ago. [...]
A new Lawfare Institute e-book, "The Troubled U.S.-NATO Relationship,” is now available on Kindle. What underlying tensions within NATO have contributed to recent difficulties
in the alliance? How has President Trump’s strikingly different approach than his predecessors spurred or exacerbated these troubles? And what legal issues come [...]
On Monday, the Department of Justice released the long-awaited inspector general report that examines the FBI’s investigation into possible coordination between the Trump
campaign and Russia. The report is available here on Lawfare. According to the Washington Post, the report concludes that the FBI had an “authorized purpose” [...]
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, December 10, 2019, at 1:30 p.m.: The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation
will hold a hearing on political and religious human rights challenges in China. The subcommittee will hear testimony from Sophie Richardson, the China director for [...]
Attorney General Bill Barr, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham, FBI Director Christopher Wray and President Donald Trump have each released statements about the release
of the Justice Department's inspector general's report into the Russia investigation. [...]
On Monday, the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released a report on its review of the four FISA applications and other aspects of the FBI's Crossfire
Hurricane Investigation, which explored any possible coordination or connection between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. [...]
Describing what a Senate impeachment trial of President Trump may look like, Hilary Hurd and Benjamin Wittes quote Rule 23 of the “Rules of Procedure and Practice in the
Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials” for the proposition that if the president [...]
Here is the Summer 2019 Supplement for Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017). This supplement covers, among other things, the
Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii (the “travel ban” case), which is excerpted with questions as part of a newly revised section on judicial deference [...]
