Law, Courts & Regulations
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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...
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On August 20, Guatemalans elected a new president, Bernardo Arévalo. His landslide victory was also a major win for the country’s struggling democracy. An unexpectedly strong candidate who ran on an a...
FIRE, in partnership with New York University’s First Amendment Watch , has developed a series of free-to-use modules, videos, and other resources for universities to utilize when teaching incoming st...
How did the student encampment protests impact the state of free expression on America’s college campuses? On April 17, Columbia University called the New York City Police Department and authorized it...
In November 2022, ChatGPT emerged as a front-runner among artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs), capturing the attention of the CIA and other U.S. defense agencies . General artifi...
Last month, the majority staff of the Senate Rules and Governmental Affairs Committee released a report entitled “Planned in Plain Sight: A Review of the Intelligence Failures in Advance of January 6t...
On Friday evening, we had no idea if Kevin McCarthy was going to be elected speaker or not, so Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Brookings senior fellow and Lawfare senior editor M...
It’s extremely likely that at least one of those election officials will find Trump disqualified under Section 3. Last month, a federal appeals panel gave the back of its hand to Rep. Madison Cawthorn...
Nine pages into the newly unsealed indictment against former president Donald Trump , special counsel Jack Smith cites several public statements that Trump made on the 2016 campaign trail about the im...
Rarely have victories been so suffused with a sense of doom. Last week, in United States v. Thomas Robertson , the Justice Department won a second fragile appellate court endorsement for its use of a ...
Lawfare senior editor Roger Parloff has been following in a way that just about nobody else has the litigation to keep people off ballots under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment—the part of the amendmen...
On June 9, the Justice Department unsealed the indictment of former President Donald Trump and Trump aide Waltine Nauta in connection with the investigation into the improper removal of classified doc...
There is still a great deal we don’t know about the massive and horrific attack launched by Hamas against Israel on Saturday morning—using missiles, sea-bound commandos, and gunmen on land. There are ...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, is one of the most important national security offices that you have probably never heard of. Responsible for reviewing foreign inve...
Editor’s note: This post has been adapted from one written last August about the many change of venue motions filed in the criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. (“ Esca...
The debate over privacy law in the United States often takes place at the extremes. Proponents of comprehensive privacy reform often focus on the need for reform without contending with the costs of i...
You may have heard of Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, thanks to some of his eccentricities, like his five cloned dogs or his reliance on a chainsaw prop to illustrate the need to cut public e...
The national security implications of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s Turkey connections and the growing importance of city and state diplomacy. If former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was once c...