Readings

The Onion, News in Brief, Vol. 15, Issue 14, April 13, 2017:

"There Are No Good Options In Syria," Sighs Man Who Has Devoted 12 Minutes Of Research To Topic

The full story in The Onion, here. (Posted without editorial comment because, well, res ipsa loquitur. -Ed.)

Last month I attended an outstanding workshop at the University of Pennsylvania’s newly-established Perry World House on a topic that (as far as I can tell) has not received the attention it should: the intersection of emerging technologies with globalization.

Alan Z. Rozenshtein, a former contributor to this site who now works at the Department of Justice, is well known to long-time Lawfare readers for his writing on many national security law topics, particularly on issues of national security law in cyber-related topics. Alan has just posted to SSRN a very interesting and important article on the issues raised by government surveillance in an era that today is perhaps most memorably characterized by the legal standoff between Apple and the Department of Justice over unlocking the cell phone of one of the San Bernardino terrrorists.

Rebecca Ingber (international law professor at Boston University and Lawfare contributor) has posted a new draft paper to SSRN (forthcoming in 42 Yale Journal of International Law No. 1, 2017), titled “Co-Belligerency.” It’s an excellent and thoughtful article particularly relevant to the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Its topic, as the title indicates, is co-belligerency, in the context of analyzing what groups the U.S.