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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, Plaintiff , v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al ., Defendants . Cas...
American University Search all Cases On February 20, 2023, American University announced it had investigated and unmasked an anonymous student who wrote “Black people suck” on a university library whi...
This catch-all category includes policies that attempt to regulate student behavior or expression, but unwittingly impose on protected speech. These policies can fall under a variety of topics includi...
Editor’s Note: The Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict is escalating, with Pakistani air strikes killing hundreds of Afghan civilians and rhetoric on both sides heating up. My Center for Strategic and Inter...
Colleges and universities are free to encourage students to live up to aspirational standards such as respect and civility, but they may not require them to do so. Consult FIRE’s Model Speech Policies...
Many colleges and universities have enacted policies aimed at eliminating “bias” and “ hate speech ” from campus, frequently interfering with student expression due to their broad definitions and thei...
On today’s episode, Lawfare ’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to an expert on Russian foreign policy in the Middle East, Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin ...
Successful War Leaves Iran With One Option, Cyber Aside from one disruptive attack, Iran's cyber retaliation against U.S. and Israeli strikes has been largely missing in action. But there are reasons ...
The General Services Administration’s draft AI clause gets the governance problem right—then blows right past it. The federal government spent the past eight months telling agencies to accelerate arti...
A draft executive order has been floating around that would assert presidential control over elections all over the country. Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Lawfare Senior Edito...
Editor’s Note: In some ways, Syria has changed radically under the leadership of former jihadist Ahmad al-Sharaa, who has renounced terrorism and is open to working with the United States and some of ...
In a live conversation on YouTube , Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Kate Klonick to Judge Boasberg’s o...
The government can stop buying from Anthropic anytime it wants. It just can't bypass the procurement system Congress built to do it. On Tuesday, March 24, Judge Rita Lin of the U.S. District Court for...
As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran continues, it is playing out across the Middle East, particularly in Gulf Arab states and the Strait of Hormuz. In this episode, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Ariane T...
The Situation on Tuesday catalogued some things that have happened in the meantime. Today I want to talk about a different kind of meanwhile. Imagine that The Situation did not exist. Imagine that Ame...
Eric Schmitt’s “The Last Line of Defense” casts courts as stages for political spectacle rather than forums for justice—and rewrites the evidentiary record along the way. I confess that I wanted to re...
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare , spoke with Jassi Pannu , assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for ...
Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow at Lawfare , sits down with Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Linda Singh, former Adjutant General of Maryland, and Chris Mirasola, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hou...
OMB’s latest memo promotes neutral AI in government but allows vendor self-evaluation and weak scrutiny of existing contracts. On Dec. 11, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued ...
In a live conversation on YouTube , Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Kate Klonick to discuss Ju...