Law, Courts & Regulations
Sam joined FIRE in 2025 following a clerkship with Judge Gerald McHugh of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Originally from Philadelphia, Sam graduated from Wesleyan Un...
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The first step to ensuring that student rights are protected on campus is to find out if your school has policies that restrict speech. Policies that prohibit or restrict speech protected by the First...
This week, a federal judge will begin handing down sentences for nine members of the Oath Keepers paramilitary group for their roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection, including six convicted of seditious co...
University administrators can be powerful allies when it comes to protecting and defending student expression on campus. Whether you are trying to plan an event, host a speaker, or reform a university...
The FIRE Student Network is a broad coalition that brings together college students and faculty who care about protecting civil liberties on campus. As an FSN member, you’ll receive email updates with...
Ensure that freedom of expression is protected on your college campus! This toolkit has all of the information and resources you need to get a free speech policy statement adopted at your school and s...
While a valuable part of a cybersecurity program, “third-party audits” are too often not audits and not done by true third parties. Editor's Note: This is the second in a three-part series on cybersec...
You’re doing amazing things on your campus to promote and protect free speech and we want to hear about it! Complete FIRE’s Activism Report to tell us about your efforts to make your campus more free ...
It is time to move beyond simplistic and worn-out war on terror strategies and create a nimble new response to today’s ever-changing threats. As the world watches Russia’s war in Ukraine, events in th...
On Sept. 22, the Justice Department announced that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has been indicted for conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to commit honest services fraud. He is indicted for thes...
On a recent visit to West Africa, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris laid out a new U.S. security assistance package that will provide more than $100 million in aid to combat the growing jihadist threa...
Thursday was sentencing day for some senior Oath Keepers, and Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff spent the day in court listening to and watching the sentencing of Elmer Stewart Rhodes III and Kelly ...
Though other courts have referred to the Capitol riot in passing as an “insurrection,” Judge Francis Mathew is the first to apply that term to the riot in a formal, rigorous way in a case against a Ne...
This past week, the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a spirited hearing on an unusual topic: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, the more cor...
The sudden prominence of several new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools—such as the large language models (LLMs) ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Bard—has brought a cascade of stories about the broad ca...
Editor’s Note: The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is resurgent, once again sowing mayhem in Pakistan, but now doing so from its base in Afghanistan. American University’s Tricia Bacon explains why th...
This November will mark the 50th anniversary of the War Powers Resolution (WPR), passed in the aftermath of the Vietnam War over the veto of Richard Nixon . The statute itself has been analyzed ad nau...
The U.S.’s new outbound investment regulations are not final, but investors from or in the U.S. should pay close attention. In August, President Biden created the U.S. government’s newest national sec...
The unclassified document presents the overarching priorities of the department’s 2023 Cyber Strategy. On Sept. 12, the Department of Defense released an unclassified summary of the classified 2023 De...