Law, Courts & Regulations
Iran’s sustained digital interference in U.S. elections now includes hack-and-leak tactics. Here’s how its strategy has evolved over time. On July 22, someone named “Robert” reached out to Politico to...
A review of “Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets” (Doubleday, 2023) In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, executives at Facebook sought to demonstr...
The bizarre saga that unfolded in the weeks leading up to Don Lemon’s indictment illustrates just how far the Justice Department has fallen. Over the past year, political appointees at the Justice Dep...
Michael J. Gottlieb is a litigation partner at the Willkie law firm. He is a long-time national security lawyer, served in Barack Obama's White House Counsel's office, and used to be the civilian lead...
Tulsi Gabbard’s latest “revelations” are being spun as proof of a deep state conspiracy. The documents themselves tell a much duller story. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has recently...
The Walter E. Hoffman Courthouse in Norfolk, Va., sits next to the Scope Arena—a concrete dome designed to resemble auditoriums built in Rome for the 1960 Summer Olympics, which is now home to a profe...
The Israeli legal system is yet again embroiled in a high-stakes constitutional confrontation. The latest controversy centers on the question of who has the authority to supervise the criminal investi...
On Sept. 18, the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as a High Court of Justice (HCJ), issued a short judgment in a petition brought by five leading Israeli human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs...
It's time for Lawfare 's annual "Ask Us Anything" podcast. You called in with your questions, and Lawfare contributors have answers! Benjamin Wittes, Kevin Frazier, Quinta Jurecic, Eugenia Lostri, Ala...
Despite recent signals of policy changes from the prosecutor, the likelihood of prosecuting cyber misconduct before the International Criminal Court in the near future remains uncertain due to the for...
The growing involvement of civilians in activities on the digital battlefield puts individuals at risk of harm and contributes to the erosion of the principle of distinction, an edifice on which the r...
The Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated decision in the presidential immunity case, Trump v. United States , arising out of the Jan. 6 criminal prosecution brought by Special Counsel Jack...
The Jan. 6 Committee released the final report of its hearings and investigations. On Dec. 22, the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol released its fin...
Over the past several weeks, a new front has opened up in the legal fight over U.S. support for the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen: the president’s authority to pursue arms sales. For months...
Democratic members of Congress today released the transcript of an interview conducted last week with former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, who was abruptly fired last month. Linick’...
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos . Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos . The United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard has de...
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, sat down with Sam Winter-Levy , a fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Janet Eg...
Targeted fixes for a landmark cross-border data law that has been misread and underused. The CLOUD Act, enacted in 2018, is the most significant amendment to ECPA in over a decade. It clarified that U...
When law enforcement obtains a customer’s cloud data from a cloud service provider (CSP) under the Stored Communications Act, a nondisclosure order can prevent the CSP from notifying the customer—leav...
Replacing the SCA’s patchwork of carve-outs with a single warrant rule would better protect privacy and clarify the law. The 1980s-era scheme in the Stored Communications Act that allows the governmen...