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A man walks inside the Apple store in Hong Kong on October 10, 2019.

App Stores as Back-Doors for Government Regulation of End-to-End Encryption

App stores make natural chokepoints for de facto government regulation, without the long and politically expensive process of legislation. But the privacy and security implications…
Parchment paper reading, “The Good Governance Papers: A Collection of Essays in favor of public integrity and the rule of law as written upon at Just Security Fall 2020”

The Good Governance Papers: An Introduction

Just Security launches a series of concise essays exploring actionable proposals to restore and promote non-partisan principles of good government, public integrity, and the rule…
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Trump signs a dollar bill for a supporter during a campaign rally at the Richmond International Raceway October 14, 2015 in Richmond, Virginia.

Ten Quick Takeaways from the New York Times’ Bombshell Article on Trump’s Tax Returns

One of the country's most eminent tax law experts analyzes the information provided by the New York Times.
An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) flies by during a training mission at Creech Air Force Base on November 17, 2015 in Indian Springs, Nevada.

An Enduring Impasse on Autonomous Weapons

Are existing international laws sufficient or are new legal rules needed to codify the “human element” in the use of force?
A U.S. Army helicopter flies outside of Camp Shorab on a flight to Camp Post on September 11, 2017 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

On 9/11, Interrogating the Assumptions that Undergird the “Forever War”

To find a path out of the Forever War, we must begin by examining the assumptions that have underpinned our fight all along.
U.S. soldiers with an artillery supply infantry unit patrol April 24, 2004 in Morgan Keckeh, Afghanistan.

9/11’s Long Shadow: What’s at Stake in Afghanistan

Just as a false sense of security pervaded the country before 9/11, the threats still hiding in Afghanistan will not disappear by believing them gone and proclaiming “game over.”
Querdenker Q buttons lie in a bin for sale next to copies of the right-wing magazine Compact at a gathering of coronavirus skeptics on the eve of a planned protest march on August 28, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded

"I have studied and worked to prevent genocide for forty years..."
An audio feed of Supreme Court oral arguments in Trump v. Mazars and Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG is heard via a teleconference due to COVID-19, as seen on a laptop in Washington, DC, May 12, 2020.

Supreme Court’s Trump v. Mazars Ruling Gave Attorney-Client Privilege a Boost in Congress

The decision gives executive branch officials and private parties greater ability to resist subpoenas on traditional common law privilege grounds.
The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on January 22, 2019.

Immigration Maximalism at the Supreme Court

"The approach taken in these important cases is the opposite of 'minimalism,' and they provide important lessons for the long-term agenda of the Roberts Court."
An engineer-virologist looks at 24 well plates adherent cells monolayer infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus.

The Second Oxford Statement on International Law Protections of the Healthcare Sector During Covid-19: Safeguarding Vaccine Research

International lawyers who wish to append their name to the Statement should send an email to ...
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Canada’s Scattered and Uncoordinated Cyber Foreign Policy: A Call for Clarity

"Articulating Canada’s first principles in the context of cyberspace would help clarify what Canadian interests are, and what they mean, in a digitalized world. Only after defining…
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