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Dr. Asaf Lubin is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Fellow at IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). He is additionally an affiliated fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and a visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Federmann Cyber Security Research Center. Dr. Lubin’s research centers around the in...

Published 5 May 2021 With his announcement to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, President Joe Biden is delivering on his promise to bring an end to the “forever wars” that were the defining features of what began as the “Global War on Terrorism” two decades ago. Eric Rosand writes that “The global terrorist threat today is qualitatively different than it was 20 years ago,” and, “therefore, the strategy for addressing it must reflect that c...

With a few notable exceptions and caveats, President Joe Biden has been keeping his campaign promise to wind down America’s “forever wars”—the open-ended counterterrorist campaign the U.S. has been fighting around the globe for the past 20 years. Most dramatically, Biden announced the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11. While this is a somewhat slower timeline than the May 1 withdrawal originally agreed to by Donald Trump, it nonetheless will represent the e...

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As co-editor in chief of Just Security, Tess Bridgeman ’10 brings her national security expertise back to NYU Law When Tess Bridgeman ’10 began her job as an attorney advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, she was glad that she had kept her old notes from NYU Law courses such as War, the President, and the Constitution, taught by Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law David Golove. Tess Bridgeman 10 “When I began working as an attorney for the special e...

Trump wanted unlimited power. Biden and Congress can ensure no president gets it. It might seem strange at first blush for a president to support limiting his own powers, but there’s an important precedent for doing just that. Biden got to see firsthand just how quickly the window can close for meaningful structural reforms.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images April 27, 2021, 6:56 PM UTC BySteve Vladeck, MSNBC Opinion Columnist If there’s any issue that should unite congressional Democrats an...

Published 26 April 2021 A dangerous rift currently exists in the public perception of Jan. 6 – a rift that may have grave implications for the future of American democracy, Fadi Quran and Justin Hendrix write. Polls show that a small majority of Republicans continues to believe in the false claims that the 2020 election was stolen due to widespread election fraud, and that there were left-wing infiltrators who were responsible for the violence at the Capitol. Why does it matter that such vote...

Nicholas Espíritu teaches Voting Rights and the Immigration Policy Clinic at UCLA School of Law. Espíritu has served as counsel or amicus counsel on numerous voting rights related cases, including Sanchez v. Modesto, Abbott v. Perez, Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council, Evenwel v. Abbott, and Coral Construction, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco. His immigrants’ rights litigation includes challenges to governmental policies discriminating against noncitizens, including the Trump Adminis...

Opinion: These much-vaunted new rules contain nothing on preventing civilian casualties.

Yelling "cancel culture" wont erase Sen. Ron Johnsons racist comments For someone being silenced, we sure are hearing a lot from Ron Johnson. What happened to you, Ron?Toni Sandys / Reuters March 17, 2021, 10:15 AM UTC The cancel culture and left-wing media are trying to silence him, he said this week in a series of appearances on national television, in talk radio interviews and on the floor of the U.S. Senate. He also said so in multiple newspaper interviews and in an op-ed piece in one of th...