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Punitive Strikes, Keeping the Seas Safe
By Prescott Heighton Freedom of the seas and their safe navigation has been a fundamental principle of American international relations...
Dec 1, 20163 min read
The Implications of the Federal Definition of Domestic Terrorism
By Natalie Holland On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof attacked the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, North Carolina...
Nov 19, 20165 min read
Sadly, Trump Could Use Executive Authority to Ban Muslims from Entering U.S.
By Joshua Arons In a disappointing turn of events, Donald Trump, the recently elected President of the United States could ban Muslims or...
Nov 19, 20164 min read
United States Sanctions on Iran after the Nuclear Deal
The Iran Nuclear Arms Deal is a landmark, but this deal has been heavily criticized due to the United States economic penalties toward...
Apr 11, 20163 min read
The Slippery Slope of Creating an iPhone Backdoor
By Gregory Coutros The FBI’s request that Apple provide an electronic backdoor into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooters is, on...
Mar 27, 20163 min read
Sign Her Up? Women and Selective Service in a Post-Rostker v. Goldberg Era
The Selective Service System was first adopted in 1917 prior to the United States’ participation in World War I.[1] After the country...
Mar 3, 20163 min read
Backdoors: National Security versus the Fourth Amendment
As citizens of the United States, we rely on our nation’s foundation of rights as defined by the Constitution. These fundamental rights...
Mar 3, 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
Loudspeakers: The Winning Strategy Against North Korea? – Part I
Tensions have been raised again this month on the Korean peninsula. Despite the report that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s plan to...
Jan 5, 20164 min read
Cyber Security Threats Offer New Legal Challenge to Holding Spies Responsible for Espionage
In December 2014, naturalized US citizen Mostafa Ahmed Awwad was arrested by the FBI for attempting to sell blueprints of the US Navy’s...
Jan 5, 20164 min read
NATO Article V and the United States’ Role in the Aftermath of the Paris Terror Attacks
Following the chaos and tragedy of the recent Paris terror attacks, geopolitical developments are sure to have massive implications in...
Nov 23, 20154 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
Third Party Doctrine: Supporting Government’s Desire to Collect Information
In the past decade the Senate and House of Representatives have attempted to address the ever-growing concerns surrounding cyber-attacks...
Nov 16, 20153 min read
Exporting Torture – The Legal Loophole of Extraordinary Rendition
On September 26, 2002, Maher Arar, a dual citizen of Canada and Syria, was en route from Tunisia to Montreal in order to attend a...
Nov 9, 20153 min read
The Allowable use of Cell-Site Simulators
By Keith Violante In a recent statement, the Department of Justice adopted a new policy for the use of cell-site simulators, a highly...
Oct 5, 20153 min read
ISAOs: Private Corporations' Mutually Beneficial Relationship with DHS
For the past decade the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has had domestic private corporations at the crux of their national...
Mar 28, 20153 min read
Are encrypted messages a danger to National Security?
Odds are that every day you wake up, go to work, run your daily activities and throughout the day you probably send a text to your wife,...
Mar 26, 20153 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
Do Border Searches Violate American’s Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age?
Imagine taking a weekend road trip to Mexico with a group of friends. Your vehicle is one of about sixty-two million that have crossed...
Mar 18, 20154 min read
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