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Tossing the Baby Out with the Bathwater: Avoiding Protectionism While Using Existing Law to Safeguar
BACKGROUND: The practice of counterfeiting has been a marketplace problem for centuries. Whenever an original product has a marketable...
Dec 26, 20123 min read
Traumatic Brain Injuries and Insanity Under the UCMJ Regarding March 11, 2012 Shooting in Afghanista
There is no doubt that the recent shooting in Afghanistan of 16 civilians, including many children, by a United States soldier was a...
Mar 27, 20123 min read
CIA Suspends Drone Strikes in Pakistan: National Security vs. State Sovereignty
Sources within the US government recently confirmed that the CIA has suspended drone missile strikes in Pakistan in an attempt to repair...
Jan 22, 20124 min read
How the Guantanamo Bay Trial Will Test the Obama Administration’s Overhaul of the Tribunals System
Ever since its post-9/11 War on Terror declaration, the United States has faced continuous scrutiny over its detention, treatment, and...
Dec 28, 20113 min read
Keystone XL: National Security Arguments Hide Real Debate
No large pipeline project in recent memory has gotten more press than Keystone XL, a pipeline proposed by TransCanada to carry oil from...
Dec 26, 20115 min read
The Arsenal of Democracy: The Export Reform Control Imitative
With the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drawing down and massive budget cuts either being instituted or being predicted United States...
Dec 22, 20114 min read
National Security Law Brief: Volume II, Issue I has arrived!
The National Security Law Brief is proud to announce the arrival of the latest print edition. The .pdf version of Volume II, issue I is...
Dec 10, 20111 min read
National Cybersecurity – Two Regulatory Solutions to a Growing Problem
October was the Department of Homeland Security’s eighth annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month, but in many ways, 2011 was the...
Dec 3, 20114 min read
Mandatory HPV Vaccination Debate: Is it a Threat to National Security?
[retweet]Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the mandatory smallpox vaccinations of Cambridge, Massachusetts have commonly been used to justify...
Dec 3, 20114 min read
Somali Piracy Convictions on Appeal in 4th Circuit
In September, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals began hearing oral arguments for United States v. Hasan, the case of five Somali men who...
Dec 3, 20113 min read
Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Proceedings: Is it Legal?
One of the primary goals of the Obama administration’s new immigration reform policy is to increase the number of “high priority”...
Nov 23, 20114 min read
The Legality of Israel's Naval Blockade and Seizure of Foreign Vessels
Israel has been implementing both a naval and land blockade on the Gaza Strip for a number of years. The naval blockade first began in...
Nov 18, 20114 min read
The New Battle: Combating the Rise of Military Suicides
President Obama has announced that by the end of 2011 every U.S. troop will leave Iraq, ending the eight years of American occupation....
Nov 18, 20113 min read
Inside Executive Branch Policy Discussions on Drone Strikes
Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Julian Barnes of the Wall Street Journal’s national security reporting team have a front page article...
Nov 6, 20114 min read
The Washington Post Editorial Board Reads the Lawfare Blog
By Kenneth Anderson Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes have been arguing for several days now at the Lawfare blog that the Obama...
Oct 6, 20114 min read
Why Palestinian Statehood is a Question for the U.N.
As the Palestinians seek U.N. support for a state of their own, Washington has advanced two arguments to dissuade them: first, that...
Sep 22, 20114 min read
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