For the past few months, I have been thinking about how Lawfare might do more to bring readers information from non-lawyers with expertise critical to national security law and lawyering the modern age. To be a good national security lawyer … Read more »

I’ve fallen behind in linking to the short essays being published by the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. The latest come from Tod Lindberg, Amy Zegart, and Philip Bobbitt.

Lindberg’s essay, entitled “Libya, Syria, … Read more »

Columbia legal scholar Philip Bobbitt just sent in this fascinating article on the constitutionality of the individual mandate as justified by biosecurity. If that sounds like a bit of a non-sequitur, well, take a look at the piece. Written in … Read more »

Columbia law professor Philip Bobbitt, author of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, writes in with the following comments in response to my comments on the Charlie Savage story:

I don’t know if this is

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Those who enjoyed my two recent posts reflecting on Benjamin Franklin’s and Robert Jackson’s comments on the liberty-security relationship, may enjoy the larger piece of work from which those posts were spun off. The paper, just published on the Brookings … Read more »

The two main headlines on the online NYT at the moment are about the E Coli outbreak in Germany and the alleged hack by China of Google.  I have not seen anyone speculating that the E Coli outbreak is … Read more »

I want to draw attention to a remarkable opportunity for students interested in national security and the law: the Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute on Law and National Security, which will take place at Columbia Law from July 31 to Aug 9 … Read more »