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Linfield University Search all Cases On March 29, 2021, Linfield University professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner posted a Twitter thread criticizing the university for allegedly mishandling sexual abuse a...
Last Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida had scheduled two hearings in United States v. Trump —the case alleging that Donald Trump mishandled clas...
What’s in the UN special rapporteur’s report following her technical visit to northeastern Syria? There’s a new special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism in town. Today, Ben Saul from th...
Almost immediately after Jan. 6, 2021, legal commentators began debating whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment would disqualify former President Donald Trump from running in the 2024 presidential el...
The United States needs to articulate its approach, to make clear its intentions and provide leadership for an international humanitarian response. Editor’s Note: Although Afghanistan has faded from t...
“Please sign onto the call,” wrote FBI Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Moore at 11:25 a.m. on Jan. 5, 2021. “This has a huge potential to be a hot mess.” Moore led the Intelligence Division at the FB...
It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” our weekly YouTube livestream conducted on Zoom for Lawfare Material Supporters. It was a breaking news day on Thursday: Sidney Powell, the K...
The U.S. is holding $3.5 billion of Afghan central bank assets in a trust fund—potentially violating bedrock international legal principles. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, the ...
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is the best legal framework available for addressing the extraordinary events at the Capitol with respect to the eligibility of participants to hold public office. Befo...
The D.C. Circuit reverses a lower court ruling and upholds the felony charge of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding. On April 7, in a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District ...
Addressing the legal crisis lurking within the climate crisis. Editor’s Note: This piece has been adapted from a forthcoming article in the Stanford Law Review . On the North Carolina Outer Banks, hom...
During oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google Partway through oral argument before the Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Google, Justice Elena Kagan took a moment to acknowledge the limitations of her instit...
After the 9/11 attacks, which weighed on America for a generation, the U.S.-led complete military victory over the Taliban in 2001 brought an unexpected opportunity to end decades of destructive viole...
How did American democracy fall so far behind, and more importantly, what can we do about it? Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien spoke with Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the new bo...
Two new developments in the Coffee County saga. The day after a Georgia grand jury indicted then-President Donald Trump and 18 others on racketeering and other charges , I wrote an exhaustive account ...
A new push by the U.S. Department of Defense to implement a proactive and pragmatic strategy for addressing civilian harm mitigation and response (CHMR) provides a unique opportunity to lead by exampl...
Unpacking the competing bills and the unusual legislative maneuver central to this week’s House vote on Section 702 reauthorization. Editor's note: This version has been updated to better accurately p...
Editor's Note: this article also appears in the Transnational Litigation Blog . Afghan central bank assets in the United States were frozen by President Biden following the Taliban’s takeover of the g...
What does it say? Why has it been rejected by the government? The current political crisis in Israel started on Jan. 4, when Minister of Justice Yariv Levin presented the government’s radical plans to...