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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 25, 20194 min read


Intelligence Community Whistleblower Complaints: Is the President of the United States a Member of t
By Rachel Feinstein In July 2019, President Donald Trump made a phone call to Ukrainian President Voloymyr Zelensky. This phone call,...
Nov 20, 20194 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 19, 20193 min read


The Role of Emergency Powers in the Mitigation of Climate Change
By Justin Tobey While the partisan politics of the present casts environmental concerns as controversial, the national security...
Nov 18, 20193 min read


Foreign Election Interference: Securing America’s Future
By Alexandra Perona The 2016 presidential election. For some it was a pleasant surprise. For others, it was a nightmare. Recently,...
Nov 15, 20192 min read


Scotland’s Potential Independent and Non-Nuclear Future
By Katie Eige With Brexit looming, there has been an increase in discontent among the Scottish government concerning Scotland remaining...
Nov 13, 20193 min read


Time to Face the (Climate) Changes
By Scout Henninger As the United States faces increasing challenges related to the rapidly-changing climate, the Department of Defense...
Nov 12, 20193 min read


The Scourge of Fentanyl
By Daniel Patrick Atchue Amid the posturing and brinkmanship that has characterized the U.S.-China and U.S.-Mexico relationships...
Nov 7, 20194 min read


The Notre Dame Fire: Just How Safe Are Our Cultural Sites?
By Bree Evans In April 2019, the world was completely captivated for hours when a fire broke out in Paris’s famed Notre Dame Cathedral....
Nov 6, 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...
Nov 4, 20194 min read


The “Great Game” of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
By Ted North U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent comment, warning Italy to be wary of “how China uses its economic power to...
Nov 1, 20193 min read


Facebook, China, and The Cryptocurrency Race
Facebook has suffered increasingly negative publicity as of late due to its cryptocurrency ambitions with the Libra, as the United States...
Oct 30, 20193 min read


Watching the Watchmen: Do the FBI’s new Section 702 Querying Procedures Comply with the Fourth Amend
By Tucker Kelleher-Brozost On October 8, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released opinions by the U.S Foreign...
Oct 28, 20196 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 24, 20193 min read


Check out NSLB’s Ethem Çoban commenting on National Security Issues on CNN and BBC World News
NSLB is proud to see our staff involved, and influencing the National Security conversation. Check out the videos below! Ethem Çoban, JD,...
Oct 24, 20191 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 23, 20194 min read


U.S. Obligations to Refugees & the National Security Exception
By David Manthos Migration can be fraught with risk, both for migrants and host nations facing waves of desperate people. The...
Oct 21, 20195 min read


The Rise of Facial Recognition Technology in Airports
By Kimiya Gilani Facial recognition technology is rising in many facets of everyday life. Whether it is being used to unlock phones,...
Oct 16, 20192 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...
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