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DePaul University Search all Cases DePaul University acquitted a conservative student group that was charged with harassment for holding an event that satirized affirmative action. Until FIRE interven...
January 23, 2006 President Dennis H. Holtschneider DePaul University 1 East Jackson Blvd Chicago, Illinois 60604 URGENT Sent by U.S. Mail and Facsimile (312-362-6822) Dear Father Holtschneider: It is ...
Russia’s war against Ukraine is the most documented conflict in history. In every part of Ukraine from which Russian forces have retreated, Ukrainian officials and civil society groups have found shoc...
George Washington University Search all Cases On March 18, 2015, George Washington University suspended a student, temporarily evicted him from university housing, and banned him from campus after the...
Editor’s Note: If China escalates pressure on Taiwan, the United States might enact economic punishments—and China, in turn, might respond in kind, creating a devastating nonmilitary struggle. The Mas...
The Biden administration’s arms transfer policy emphasizes human rights and governance in ar Nearly a year and a half after Reuters first reported the expected release of the Biden administration’s co...
Following the Nov. 1, 2022, Israeli elections, the right-wing bloc of parties headed by the Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu—which won, jointly, 64 out of 120 seats in the Knesset—was able to form a gover...
The Justice Department is pursuing its first-ever war crimes prosecution and is targeting Russians for their actions in Ukraine. But it’s not quite the case some might have expected. Criminal indictme...
The government has rested its case in chief in the criminal seditious conspiracy trial of Elmer Stewart Rhodes III and several other members of the Oath Keepers. The trial has been going on for the la...
On Oct. 7, Palestinian militants—primarily from Hamas— launched a multi-faceted attack against Israel that included approximately 3,000 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel and the infiltration of appr...
Ukrainian HIMARS in Zaporizhia Oblast in Jun. 2022. (General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, https://tinyurl.com/452nmrnt; CC Attribution 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
On June 15, Sens. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), in conjunction with Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the Ho...
Pre-positioned contingency stockpiles within Taiwan and closely located partner states will There’s a famous quote in the U.S. military: “amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.” Though ...
Requiring AI engineers to obtain licenses and comply with industry standards conscripts the experts that understand AI systems best to the cause of building them responsibly. A big year for artificial...
It’s been another brutal summer with seemingly constant natural disasters precipitated by climate change. The United States and other countries have rightfully begun thinking of climate change as a se...
It’s January 6—the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. There has been a lot of activity in those two years to account for what happened on that terrible day. To go over it all, Lawfare edit...
Since Jan. 11, 2023 the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee has held, almost on a daily basis, hearings dedicated to the judicial reform package under the provocative heading, “Zion shall...
It's another episode of our weekly live stream series, “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” which takes place on YouTube each week on Thursday afternoons at 4 p.m. ET. This week, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief...
“I have been practicing in this district and in other districts for a long time,” said defense attorney Carmen Hernandez on Jan. 10, at the close of jury selection for five Proud Boys who are now on t...