Law, Courts & Regulations
For years, the U.S. government has funded research to detect and interdict deepfakes to combat foreign disinformation campaigns. Deepfakes are convincing digital forgeries—manipulated or generated ima...
In light of Taliban policies, prominent voices are calling for the codification of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity. Beware of its consequences. An international law and human rights exper...
A presidential policy memorandum (PPM) governing direct action counterterrorism operations and a national security memorandum signed in October 2022 were recently declassified and released. The PPM ti...
Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Israel-Hamas war has largely been fought in Gaza, a small strip of land along the border of the Mediterranean Sea. But farther inland, there has been an u...
The House is scheduled to vote this week on assistance to Israel—but not Ukraine. Can the new Speaker thread a tricky legislative needle? Last week, the House of Representatives selected Mike Johnson ...
Once a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, U.S. arms transfers to Israel are under the gun. As the civilian death toll in Gaza climbs, scrutiny over Israel’s weapons of U.S. origin has climbed with it...
You probably already know that Rep. Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House. What you may not know is that every single one of the issues on his plate is a national security issue, at least in th...
Innovative tools could collect the views of U.S. national security officials about what kinds of defense and intelligence AI we should use. On April 8, the Washington Post reported that members of Con...
On Feb. 28, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen at the Brookings Institution to discuss the Biden administration's attempt to work with Congress to reauthorize Secti...
The newly developing “law of AI” has come to focus on risk regulation, and in many ways risk regulation seems like a good fit for regulating the development and growing uses of AI systems. AI harms t...
Yes, “a second Trump administration would be much worse,” as the Vox headline said after Trump’s CNN town hall meeting. And yes, “Trump’s Second-Term Goal” would be to “Shatter[] the Norms He Didn’t A...
Leslie Moonves, then the CEO of CBS News, famously said in 2016 that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” It was hard not to think of Moonves...
Access to and use of personal data is at the forefront of the U.S.-China technology conflict. Republicans and Democrats have found common ground in the concern that unacceptable national security and ...
Trespassers on the ramp of the Brazilian Congressional Palace on Jan. 8, 2023. (Marcelo Camargo, https://tinyurl.com/bdzrnjcc; CC Attribution 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...
A U.S. District judge dismissed the felony charge that has become the single most important weapon in the government’s arsenal in Capitol insurrection cases. On March 7, a federal judge finally did wh...
Twenty years ago today, the United States invaded the nation of Iraq, intent on removing the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein and installing a stable democratic government. What followed instead was ...
A high-altitude summary of the previously unreleased document on the voting system breach, published for the first time, on Lawfare . On Jan. 7, 2021, the day after the attack on the United States Cap...
While the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) keeps targeting the positions of Hamas in and around the Gaza Strip, concerns about the environmental impacts of the IDF’s air strikes are becoming prominent. Th...
The first two installments in this series detailed the nature and role of India’s justice system and how the Modi government has undermined its independence. By halting judicial appointments, exerting...
The recent outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas since Oct. 7 has thrust two words into the public sphere. They are “proportionality” and “self-defense.” These two words are legal concepts. Some le...