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Mar 10, 20214 min read
The President’s Strike Against Iran-backed Militias in the Context of the War Powers Resolutio
By Lily Goff On Thursday, February 25, 2021, the United States conducted an air strike against Iran-backed militias located in Eastern...
Nov 6, 20203 min read
The “British Invasion” of U.S. Counterterrorism Policy? On the “ISIS Beatles” Case
By Michael Thompson On October 7, the Department of Justice announced an indictment against two members of the Islamic State of Iraq and...
Jun 26, 20205 min read
Mere Biological Agent or Weapon of Mass Destruction? The Prosecution of “Bioterrorism” in the Pandem
By Michael Thompson Introduction This past Memorial Day weekend saw the thirtieth anniversary of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism...
Apr 22, 20205 min read
Justice Continues: Benghazi Masterminds Serving Time
By Sasha Brisbon On September 11, 2012, heavily armed Islamist militants launched an organized attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in...
Mar 5, 20203 min read
The Use of Big Data Against International Terrorism
By Inamul Hassan In the fight against international terrorism, there has been an extensive use of defensive countermeasures in the global...
Nov 26, 20194 min read
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp as a Foreign Terrorist Organization: Economic and Legal Implica
By Michael Thompson Overview The Trump Administration used Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (codified as 8 U.S.C. §...
Nov 25, 20194 min read
Bank Liability under JASTA: The Knowledge/Awareness Requirement of Financial Institutions
By Mimi Derle The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (“JASTA”) was passed by Congress in 2016, giving U.S. citizens the ability to...
Nov 19, 20193 min read
Saudi Twitter Spies: The Line Between Espionage and Terrorism
By Regina DiMaggio In November 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged two former Twitter, Inc. employees with spying on...
Nov 4, 20194 min read
Challenges of Prosecuting Domestic Terrorism
By Dave Johnson On August 12, 2017, James Fields drove his car into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally in...
Oct 24, 20193 min read
Blurred Lines: Surprise Difficulties in Criminalizing Domestic Terrorism
By Maria L. Stratienko In late July and early August 2019, over the course of a single week, back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso,...
Oct 23, 20194 min read
Why Elhady v. Kable is a Gamechanger for the Counterterrorism Playbook
By Victoria Tinker Earlier this year on September 4th, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a long-awaited...
Oct 16, 20191 min read
Featured NSLB Update
THE 2018 U.S. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR COUNTERTERRORISM: A SYNOPTIC OVERVIEW Read the full article here: The U.S. National Strategy on...
Oct 12, 20193 min read
Declaring an Organization a Terrorist Organization: The Fractured System
By Casey Hare-Osifchin President Trump scheduled peace talks with the Taliban on U.S. soil just days before the anniversary of the 9/11...
Apr 12, 20193 min read
Defining the Future
By: Dave Johnson Soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force...
Apr 9, 20194 min read
Lighting the Way for the Next “Going Dark” Encryption Battle
By: Daniel de Zayas “[Encryption] takes us to a place—absolute privacy—that we have not been to before, where the balance we have long...
Apr 8, 20193 min read
The War on ISIS: Coming to an End or Just Beginning?
By: Maria Latimer ISIS remains synonymous with terror in today’s society, but is the United States finally pulling back from its role in...
Apr 3, 20192 min read
Implications of the United States’ Abrupt Withdrawal from Afghanistan
By: Helina Daniel In December 2018, President Trumpunexpectedly announced his decision to remove troops from Afghanistan, and recently...
Jan 30, 20194 min read
How Good Lawyering by the Obama Administration Saved Trump’s Iran Sanctions Reimposition
By: Samuel Cutler On November 5, 2018, the United States reimposed a comprehensive set of sanctions on Iran that had previously been...
Dec 13, 20184 min read
Defining Terrorism: The Necessity of a Universal Definition to Protect Fundamental Freedoms
By: Alexa August Introduction The international community has attempted to formulate a comprehensive definition of “terrorism” since the...
Nov 29, 20182 min read
Far Right Extremism on the Rise: How US Law and Policy Falls Short in Preventing and Prosecuting Dom
By Helina Daniel With increased acts of domestic terrorism in the US, far right extremism is a growing threat in the US. The rise of...
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