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Free Speech Lessons for Freshman Orientation & First-Year Experience Programming

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...

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2024 Student Encampment Protests

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...

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2023 National Intelligence Strategy Released

The strategy identifies six goals for the intelligence community. On Aug. 9, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the 2023 National Intelligence Strategy. The strategy names gr...

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A Primer on the Silent Witness Rule and United States v Trump

If you have not yet heard the term “the silent witness rule,” you soon will. It’s almost certain to play a crucial role in United States v. Trump , Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against the former...

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The Black Sea Grain Initiative and the Law of Treaties: A Response

In a recent piece on Lawfare , Mykhailo Soldatenko offered an insightful analysis of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), as well as the separate memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Russia and...

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From All-Out Assault to Salami Slicing Tactics: Israel’s Crisis Continues

Less than two weeks before the end of the Knesset’s summer session, Israel finds itself again on the brink of a major clash between the government and its opponents. Mass protests are continuing, inte...

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Why We Continue to Misunderstand Conflict Economies

It’s said that the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Yet, once again, the international community is using the reports of a government in K...

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The Lawfare Podcast: How to Implement Section 3 Disqualification, with Ned Foley and Derek Muller

As the 2024 presidential election inches closer, legal scholars are hotly debating whether former President Trump’s actions in relation to Jan. 6 might have disqualified him (and many others) from pub...

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What the Omegle Shutdown Means for Section 230

Is the closure of the anonymous videochatting site a victory against online sexual abuse, or a step onto a slippery slope? The website’s slogan was simple: “Talk to Strangers!” For 14 years, that was ...

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On Georgia State Law’s Presentments and the Special Purpose Grand Jury

Anna Bower explains another niche, yet surprisingly consequential, area of Georgia law—presentments. The Fulton County special purpose grand jury has concluded its investigation into alleged criminal ...

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The United States Without Europe

How a shattered NATO would undermine U.S. security. The Trump administration has become a direct threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its NATO allies. Trump has stated repeatedly tha...

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Understanding Trump’s Coercive Foreign Policy

Trump’s attempts to dominate allies come with many costs and few benefits. Although the worst period of the intra-NATO crisis over Greenland seems to have passed, the Trump administration’s consistent...

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Regulating Commercial Spyware

The rapid evolution of spyware technologies and their abuse by both democratic and autocratic governments has been the subject of increased international scrutiny. Spyware has been used to target the ...

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The Pall Mall Process on Cyber Intrusion Capabilities

Editor’s Note: One of the authors was invited by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to comment on the draft declaration and join the conference as panel chair. Due to prior commitment...

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Tackling the Proliferation of Cyber Intrusion Capabilities

Cyber intrusion capabilities have long been used to facilitate human rights abuses—like surveilling members of parliament , spying on opposition politicians , or tracking dissidents, journalists, and ...

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Wassenaar Export Controls on Surveillance Tools: New Exemptions for Vulnerability Research

The United States successfully negotiated research-use exceptions to export controls on surveillance tools at the December 2017 meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement, a club of advanced economies that ...

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Microsoft’s Crackdown on Unit 8200 Reveals Tech’s Intermediary Role

On Sept. 25, Microsoft announced that it would be blocking Unit 8200—Israel’s elite intelligence arm—from a cloud service that was used to operate a surveillance program aimed at collecting Palestinia...

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Where Trump’s Veto Leaves the Yemen Resolution

Late in the evening on Apr. 16, President Trump informed the Senate that he was officially vetoing S.J. Res. 7 , the joint resolution that many hoped would bring an end to U.S. support for the Saudi-l...

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Taking Stock of the Yemen Resolution

On Wednesday, Nov. 28, Congress took what may be its most important step to date towards openly opposing U.S. involvement in the Yemen war. By a vote of 63 to 37 , the Senate elected to discharge a jo...

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Putting the Yemen Resolution in Procedural Context

Last Wednesday, Feb. 28, a bipartisan coalition of senators introduced a proposed new joint resolution seeking to compel the Trump administration to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yeme...

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