Archive for category: Featured

/ April 25, 2011 9:34 pm

ICJ Upholds Russian Preliminary Objections in Georgia Dispute

By Brian Itami -- The ICJ ruled that it lacked jurisdiction over a dispute relating to the South Ossetian conflict, leaving the potential convergence between international humanitarian law and human rights law unresolved.

/ April 21, 2011 11:43 am

Rule of Law in Iraq and Afghanistan?

On April 18, Brigadier General Mark Martins received the Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom. He delivered remarks about his experiences operating under and encouraging the rule of law in Iraq and Afghanistan.

/ April 18, 2011 11:30 am

The Developing Legal Framework for Defensive and Offensive Cyber Operations

Steven G. Bradbury's keynote address for the 2011 National Security Journal Symposium, "Cybersecurity: Law, Privacy, and Warfare in a Digital World."

/ April 14, 2011 8:54 am

The Cost of “Empty Words”: A Comment on the Justice Department’s Libya Opinion

Michael J. Glennon argues that the Office of Legal Counsel's opinion on the President's authority to use force in Libya is unconvincing.

/ March 31, 2011 2:56 am

Juan Zarate Asks, “Whither the Arab Spring?”

By James Moxness -- The newest member of the NSJ Advisory Board, Juan Zarate, gave a lecture last week concerning the recent political upheaval in the Middle East, what it means for U.S. counter-terrorism policy, and the future of Al Qaeda.

/ March 30, 2011 9:48 pm

Juan C. Zarate Joins NSJ Advisory Board

The Harvard National Security Journal is pleased to announce that the Honorable Juan C. Zarate has joined the journal's Advisory Board.

/ March 30, 2011 3:02 am

Detention

Phillip B. Heymann addresses a set of fundamental jurisprudential questions regarding the seizure and detention of those suspected of alliances with terrorist groups and causes.

/ March 28, 2011 12:01 am

The Number One National Security Threat?

Malik Ahmad Jalal argues that crippling public debt is the greatest threat to America's global primacy.

/ March 25, 2011 3:37 am

Freezing and Seizing Qadhafi’s Assets

By Reena Mittelman -- Already, Libyan assets frozen by the United States represent the largest amount ever blocked under an American sanctions action. Recent asset-recovery legislation passed in Switzerland suggests a way that the United States and its allies can seize even more.

/ March 16, 2011 3:48 pm

Untangling Attribution

David D. Clark and Susan Landau consider how cyberexploitations and cyberattacks might be traced by linking people to packets and conclude that such a linkage would be a mistake. They discuss how other technical contributions to cyber attribution can only be contemplated in the larger regulatory context of various legal jurisdictions.