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University of Kansas: Art Installation Censored Following Politicians’ Demands

University of Kansas Search all Cases On July 3, 2018, nonprofit art organization Creative Time unveiled the latest installation in its national public art series titled “Pledges of Allegiance,” in co...

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Brandeis University: Student Journalists Cleared of Charges for Reporting on Sexual Assault Awareness Event

Brandeis University Search all Cases After intervention from FIRE, Brandeis University decided not to punish three student journalists for publishing an article about a campus event, and will reform i...

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Prohibition on Homecoming Demonstrations

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Search all Cases Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are engaged in a long-running dispute over control of the Student Union, which has been operated by...

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The Aftermath: Season 2 Is Here

This weekend, on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, we were pleased to launch the second season of The Aftermath. The Aftermath is a project the Lawfare team has been working on for the...

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DePaul University: Censorship of Student Group Protesting Ward Churchill

DePaul University Search all Cases In 2005, the College Republicans at DePaul University printed flyers to protest a campus appearance by University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill. DePaul prohib...

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Harvard University: Blacklisting of Final Club, Fraternity, and Sorority Students

Harvard University Search all Cases On May 6, 2016, Harvard University announced that members of independent, single-sex, off-campus organizations would be blacklisted from Rhodes and Marshall scholar...

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The End of ‘The Aftermath’

Season 2 of our narrative series on Jan. 6 has come to a close. But the search for accountability is far from over. Today we’re pleased to release the fifth and final episode of Season 2 of The Afterm...

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The Aftermath: The Hidden Insurrection

Episode 4 of The Aftermath examines the Jan. 3, 2021 attempted takeover of the Justice Department and its lasting impact. Today, we’re pleased to release Episode 4 of the second season of Lawfare ’s n...

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Scaling Laws: How To Use, Govern, And Lead On AI?

Representative Nick Begich, Alaska's at-large member of Congress, joins Kevin Frazier, Director the the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Fellow at th...

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Security Versus Interoperability: Real Tension or False Dichotomy?

Technology companies cite security risks to push back against antitrust regulation. Are these real risks or just efforts to evade regulation? The recent introduction of the Digital Markets Act in the ...

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MSPB Strikes Down Tenure Protections for Immigration Judges

The latest MSPB case poses significant concerns for the civil service. Shortly after President Trump’s second inauguration, the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) removed several immigratio...

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What Is Trump’s ‘Election Integrity’ Order Even Trying to Achieve?

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order seeking to create federal lists of eligible voters that could then be used to restrict mail-in ballots. “I believe it’s foolproof,” he said . “And ...

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OLC’s Meaningless 'National Interests' Test for the Legality of Presidential Uses of Force

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) published a legal opinion May 31 that explained the basis for its oral advice in April that President Trump had the authority under Article II of...

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Which States Support the 'Unwilling and Unable' Test?

As readers of Lawfare know, a growing number of States believe that use of force in self-defense against a non-state actor on the territory of a third State, without the consent of that third State, m...

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The Situation: Stand With Anthropic

You might not like the creator of Claude, but its fight with Pete Hegseth is important for the rule of law. The Situation on Thursday catalogued what certain federal judges are saying about the conduc...

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Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System

This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick. On Feb. 27, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic —the maker of the AI model Claude—a supply chain risk to ...

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What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic

The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demanding—and the statute's ambiguities cut both ways. On Tuesday, Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amod...

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How AI Data Centers Are Shaping Politics

AI data centers are fueling local backlash. These concerns—some real, some overstated—are shaping elections and policy. Across the United States, the rapid buildout of hyperscale data centers to suppo...

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The Moral Education of an Alien Mind

What Claude's "Constitution" really is. Anthropic just published what it calls " Claude's Constitution "—building on an earlier version , it's now a more-than 20,000 word document articulating the val...

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Is Claude Too Woke For War?

Is Claude Too Woke For War? This week, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered an ultimatum to Anthropic that it allow unrestricted military use of its artificial intelligence (AI) models by Fri...

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