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UNCLOS Arbitration Award in the South China Sea Dispute
By Ryan Poitras Background: In June 2016, the United Nations’ Permanent Court of Arbitration Tribunal handed out its final award in...
Dec 1, 20164 min read
Where Personal Opinion and Unlawful Command Influence Collide
By Jennifer Goss In August 2016, Sergeant (Sgt.) Bowe Bergdahl’s defense team filed a motion to dismiss all charges against him, claiming...
Nov 19, 20165 min read
Thank You For Your Service?
By Eugene Mok Recently the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit delivered a concerning blow to veteran and service-member...
Nov 17, 20163 min read
Loudspeakers: The Winning Strategy Against North Korea? Part II
Beginning of this year, South Korea and North Korea began shouting at each other again. It was just last August when the escalated...
Apr 28, 20163 min read
Donald Trump, Illegal Orders, and the Law of Armed Conflict
During the course of the current Republican Primary campaign, Donald Trump has made a number of jarring comments regarding American armed...
Apr 18, 20165 min read
National Security v. International Law in the Wake of the Paris and Brussels Attacks
By Ayat Mujais After the recent terror attacks on Brussels and Paris, there has been a push from numerous nations, such as the United...
Mar 28, 20164 min read
iConstitution: How Apple is using the Constitution as a basis for its argument against the FBI
It’s quite difficult to imagine exactly what the Framers of the Constitution would think of the construal of their document to protect...
Feb 29, 20164 min read
National security trumps your constitutional rights, at least civilly
The D.C. Circuit recently held in Meshal v. Higgenbotham [1] that an individual cannot sue federal officials for damages stemming from...
Jan 6, 20164 min read
When Bias and Empathy Meet
The day before the terrorist attack in Paris on Friday, a lesser reported double suicide bombing cut through Beirut, Lebanon, killing...
Nov 23, 20154 min read
Implications of the Criminal Jurisdiction Article of the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Unite
The relationship between the United States and the Philippines spans centuries. Initially a colony turned commonwealth of the United...
Oct 18, 20153 min read
Insecurity in General Aviation
Presently, there are vulnerabilities within general aviation that terrors can exploit.[1] Shockingly, little has been done since the...
Oct 12, 20156 min read
Data Security Playing an Increasing Role in Corporate Liability
Target recently agreed to pay ten-million dollars to settle a class-action suit following a massive breach of customer data during 2013...
Mar 24, 20155 min read
Limits on Executive Power: Interbranch Politics and the Threat to National Security
National Security in the United States is a multifaceted and varied area, intertwining legislation, judicial decisions, and executive...
Mar 22, 20153 min read
What's in a Name: China and Japan’s Claim to Territorial Islands and President Obama’s ‘Pivot T
Five barren rocks in the East China Sea, over 100 miles from shore, are home to a growing international dispute between China, Japan, and...
Mar 10, 20153 min read
‘Roving Patrol’ Abuses and the Demand for Transparency: The ACLU and its FOIA Request to the DHS and
On February 10, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties (ACLU-SDIC) filed a lawsuit against the...
Feb 17, 20155 min read
Relabeling Piracy: The Story of Maritime Terrorism
On April 13, 2010, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13536 stating that the making of any “contribution or provision of...
Nov 20, 20145 min read
UNCLOS-er than ever; why the U.S. should learn to stop worrying and love the law of the sea
Robert Ballard, the oceanographer best known for discovering the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, has embarked on a ten-year project to map...
Dec 19, 20133 min read
Mixed Scorecard for Recent Legal Challenges to Iran Sanctions
Targeted economic sanctions became a central issue during recent negotiations in Geneva over Iran’s nuclear program. While future...
Nov 12, 20132 min read
HR 3107 and Potential Cybersecurity Bills for Senate Approval
The House Homeland Security Committee passed the new Bill, HR 3107, or the Homeland Security Cybersecurity Boots-on-the-Ground Act, on...
Nov 1, 20133 min read
The Necessity of the Haystack to Find the Needle: A Look into the Controversial NSA Bulk Collection
Through leaking thousands of top-secret documents owned by the National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden publicly disclosed the...
Oct 24, 20134 min read
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