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Deradicalization Programs: Lessons Learned from Europe
Homegrown militants have become a major threat for European countries. Europe’s police organization Europol estimates that up to 5,000...
Mar 15, 20153 min read
Exploring the President's Draft AUMF
President Obama sent to Congress on February 11 his draft proposal for a joint resolution authorizing the use of military force against...
Feb 28, 20154 min read
The AUMF Draft Notes – President Promises to Eat His Broccoli
For months, national security law experts have quietly and not–so–quietly complained that the President’s legal rationale to conduct...
Feb 20, 20153 min read
Defining Freedom of Speech in an Age of Extremism
The Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack presents a new challenge to defining free speech in the United States in such a way that protects the...
Feb 19, 20153 min read
An AUMF for ISIL
During his State of the Union address on January 20, President Obama formally called on Congress to pass a new Authorization for the Use...
Jan 30, 20152 min read
Locked Out: The (Un)Constitutionality of Revoking the Passports of Americans Fighting for ISIS
The Syrian conflict is now entering its fourth year. What began as a struggle for democratic reform has been perverted into a brutal...
Jan 27, 20156 min read
Deal or No Deal: The Legal Questions Regarding the Iranian Nuclear Negotiations
In 2013, in an historic moment, US President Barack Obama cautiously shook the hand of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. It was the first...
Nov 27, 20144 min read
Harder than it Looks: Cutting ISIS’s Financing
The wake of the September 11th,, 2001 terrorist attack upon the World Trade Center in New York City drew the world’s attention to the...
Nov 25, 20143 min read
Unaccompanied Minors a threat to National Security?
The surge of unaccompanied minors that have immigrated into the United States from Central American countries has been portrayed as one...
Nov 24, 20143 min read


Who is Khorasan?
On September 22, the U.S. military expanded its reach to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and launched Tomahawk cruise missiles...
Nov 12, 20143 min read
JP Morgan breach and cybersecurity legislation
A recent cyber attack on J.P. Morgan Chase has compromised about 76 million private accounts and several small business accounts[1]. This...
Oct 27, 20144 min read
The Optic Nerve Program Meets the NSA
Three United States Senators and members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are among many Americans who recently discovered that the...
Mar 18, 20143 min read
Data Vulnerability in the Digital Age
In the past three months alone, tens of millions of people have been victims of data breaches. From the recent Target breach, which...
Feb 26, 20143 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
Spying for Security or Spying because of Habit?
Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman recently wrote an AP article stating that continued spying on mosques in...
Nov 17, 20133 min read
Abu Anas at Sea: Alleged al Qaeda Operative Held in Detention
In 2000, Abu Anas, born Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, was indicted in Manhattan for alleged conspiracy with Osama Bin Laden in his plot to...
Oct 14, 20133 min read
Presidential Power and National Security Decisions: The Domestic and International Legal Justificati
We would like to thank all the attendees and everyone who contributed to a successful syposium. Below please find links for the webcasts...
Sep 30, 20137 min read
Bagram Prison: Struggle for Veto Power
With the looming American troop withdrawal in 2014, the issue of prisoner custody has been a persistent issue. Bagram Prison is the only...
May 20, 20132 min read
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA): Another SOPA?
In February of 2013, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was reintroduced in the House for renewed debate. An older...
Apr 9, 20133 min read
The Global Arms Trade Treaty: The Critical First Step in a Marathon
In the midst of escalating tensions in the Middle East and Korean peninsula, the United Nations approved a landmark treaty that has...
Apr 6, 20134 min read
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