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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

All of Lawfare, that is, except for Today’s Headlines and Commentary, as it seems silly to round up what is itself a roundup. Let’s start with detention, Guantanamo, habeas, and related matters: Wells...

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The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

It’s kind of a cliche to observe that it’s been quite a week. Having spent five years in Boston and at the ‘Tute, I was pained to see my old stomping ground start to resemble a war zone during these...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Much of this week’s Lawfare commentary concerned the recently-filed case against Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev. But that’s not all. Among other things, we noted critical developments in...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

I’m emerging temporarily from my undisclosed location to get you caught up on this week’s Lawfare happenings. Detention-related matters made up most, but hardly all, of the week’s writings.  There were...

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I have emerged from my undisclosed location to bring you this week at Lawfare, which saw a lot of detention-related commentary, a serious dose of Ben critiquing Harold Koh, analysis of...

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On the Lawfare menu this week was a lot of discussion of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, docket updates in a number of related court cases, detention matters, surveillance law,...

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The main topic on Lawfare this week was the President’s address at the National Defense University on counterterrorism policy.  We previewed the Thursday address in our early week coverage: Jack was...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Hearing few objections (and indeed many expressions of support!), I forge ahead with Lawfare’s newest feature: the Week That Was. The week’s big news was that President Obama plans to nominate James...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Unsurprisingly, the dominant story on Lawfare concerned a leaked FISA Court order and the disclosure of the NSA’s PRISM program. Here are Steve’s post, written when the Guardian first published its...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Like most people accessing the Internet this week, we at Lawfare were a bit focused on everything related to the Edward Snowden leaks. We had some other valuable commentary, though, including a rather...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Lawfare readers probably already know that we had a few technical difficulties this week that resulted in the site’s being intermittently inaccessible for a couple of days. We hope we’re past all of...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Lawfare topics took a backseat in the news this week, what with the Supreme Court’s attention-grabbing week. The justices were too busy with same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act, and affirmative...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

It was a somewhat light week for us here at Lawfare—though an exceedingly tumultuous one, obviously, for Egypt. We covered the latter’s unrest and coup by means of an exciting and experimental feature...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Laura Dean continued her online Cairo diary, chronicling the goings-on in Egypt. Read all her posts here. A lot of legal fireworks went off at Guantanamo this week: U.S. District Court Judge Gladys...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, spoke at Brookings on Friday about surveillance law. Jane Chong and I had a great time previewing and then recapping the oral...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Folks, there’s more to life than guessing what the future King of England will be named.  There’s the week that was! Ritika completed a significant research project comparing various studies’...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

A Lawfare debate ensued over an amicus brief filed in the Al-Bahlul D.C. Circuit appeal. Catch up on all the action this weekend: Steve’s critique of the brief, which was authored, among others, by law...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post

So much for August being an “off-month.” You can probably guess what issues dominated Lawfare‘s agenda this week. The U.S. issued a global threat alert, which prompted closures of many diplomatic posts...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post

Edward Snowden and the NSA continued to dominate Lawfare this week. Matt mused on how one might measure the value of the NSA surveillance programs. Lawfare hosted a debate between Carrie Cordero and...

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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post

What with the declassified NSA documents and the 9/11 commission hearings, it’s been a busy week. Oh, and there was that whole site host-problem, thanks to Bluehost. Help us, please. O.K., here’s...

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