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New War, Same Problem: Why the AUMF Needs To Be Updated
By: Joseph Epstein The United States Department of Defense has been conducting extensive operations throughout Africa against several...
May 19, 20184 min read


Fighting Poaching Fights Terrorism
By Frank E. Waliczek Africa is home to a growing number of terrorist organizations seeking expansion funds, as well as to a dwindling...
Apr 25, 20185 min read


Harlem Suarez and the Standard for Entrapment
By: Andrew Glenn On July 25, 2015, a team of FBI agents broke cover with guns drawn and surrounded a white Toyota Camry in a Benihana...
Apr 2, 20183 min read


The Guantanamo Bay Executive Order
By: Rachel Bauer Guantanamo Bay will continue to stay open and active. On January 30, 2018, President Trump signed an Executive Order,...
Mar 28, 20183 min read

Why the First Step to Re-Characterizing Mass Shootings Starts with Banning Bump Stocks
By: Abigail Kittredge More than 15,000 Americans die each year from guns. Mass shootings have plagued communities in the U.S. for almost...
Mar 21, 20184 min read

Legally Banned: An Overview of President Trump’s Immigration Bans
By: Ammar Hussain On January 27, 2017, seven days after taking office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed to bar...
Feb 6, 20185 min read


Creation of a National Security Court
By: Sarah Watkins Following the recent terror attack in New York, President Donald Trump expressed his desire to send the suspected...
Jan 24, 20182 min read


The Legal Irrelevance of the IRGC 13224 Designation
By: Sam Cutler On October 13, 2017, President Trump designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Specially Designated...
Jan 22, 20184 min read


Islamophobia: A Cause of Domestic Terrorist Attacks
By Jaime Rosenberg, December 22, 2017 The Islamic State (ISIS) has instilled fear into nations world-wide after conducting over 70...
Dec 22, 20174 min read
Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, and Free Speech: How far is too far?
By Alix Bruce In the wake of the slaying of Heather Heyer at a counter-protest to a neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, a...
Nov 17, 20174 min read


The TSA’s Power to Screen and Prohibit Certain Electronic Devices on Airlines
By John R. Burns On October 31, 2015, a Russian A321-200 airliner, operated by Metrojet, was blown out of the sky by an Islamic State of...
Oct 29, 20173 min read


Pressure on Jordan: Refusal to extradite mastermind of deadly 2001 Sbarro suicide bombing in Jerusal
By Michelle Munneke, J.D. 2017, American University Washington College of Law. In March of this year, Jordan expressed its refusal to...
Oct 28, 20179 min read


Labeling Las Vegas: An Analysis of Declaring the Tragedy a Terrorist Attack
By Samuel Nicosia Tragedy swept the nation like wildfire on October 1, 2017, when Stephen Paddock opened fired on unsuspecting...
Oct 26, 20173 min read

Legal Implications of Detaining the Latest American Enemy Combatant
By Annica Mae Mattus It is around four weeks since the Department of Defense announced an American citizen is being detained by American...
Oct 7, 20174 min read


Targeted Drone Strikes and the Growing Unrest in Yemen
By James Feeney Less than a month after the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States launched its first-ever...
Dec 31, 20164 min read


The Implications of the Federal Definition of Domestic Terrorism
By Natalie Holland On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof attacked the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, North Carolina...
Nov 19, 20165 min read
The Slippery Slope of Creating an iPhone Backdoor
By Gregory Coutros The FBI’s request that Apple provide an electronic backdoor into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooters is, on...
Mar 27, 20163 min read
Backdoors: National Security versus the Fourth Amendment
As citizens of the United States, we rely on our nation’s foundation of rights as defined by the Constitution. These fundamental rights...
Mar 3, 20164 min read
Targeted Killings: The Blurry Lines of Applicable Legal Frameworks in the Context of Global Terroris
Is it legal to use Uninhabited Aircraft Systems (UAS) technology to target and kill people suspected of terrorist activities? The short...
Oct 18, 20154 min read
The Allowable use of Cell-Site Simulators
By Keith Violante In a recent statement, the Department of Justice adopted a new policy for the use of cell-site simulators, a highly...
Oct 5, 20153 min read
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