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The Generals’ Constitution In Extremis: Civil Rights, Civilian Supremacy, And A National Security Commitment “Most Severely Tested”
Dan Maurer*[This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract This article describes the legal confusion that surfaces when a senior military commander dissents from, disobeys, or more offensively defies an apparently lawful order from the commander-in-chief to use force in ways that might check, curb, frustrate, or violate the constitutional liberties of the domestic…
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Techno-Federalism: How Regulatory Fragmentation Shapes the U.S.-China AI Race
Jason Jia-Xi Wu*1[This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract The United States and China are engaged in a regulatory arms race over artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, existing debates often overlook a critical factor shaping this AI race: federalism, or the division of regulatory authority between central and local governments. In the United States,…
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“Violent, Vicious, and Fast”: LSCO Lawyering and the Transformation of American IHL
Naz Khatoon Modirzadeh*[This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract In this Article, I examine a phenomenon unfolding within the United States’s military legal establishment: an effort by a segment of military lawyers to define how the law of armed conflict (LOAC) applies to the wars they anticipate fighting in the future. At the…
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Volume 17, Issue 1
Articles “Violent, Vicious, and Fast”: LSCO Lawyering and the Transformation of American IHL By Naz Khatoon Modirzadeh In this Article, I examine a phenomenon unfolding within the United States’s military legal establishment: an effort by a segment of military lawyers to define how the law of armed conflict (LOAC) applies to the wars they anticipate…
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Volume 16, Issue 2
Articles Starving the Beast: A New Vetting Model to Prevent Corruption in International Security Sector Assistance By Nahal Kazemi In 2021, the United States government identified countering corruption as a core national security interest for the first time. However, corrupt police and military forces supported by the United States in countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, and…
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Starving the Beast: A New Vetting Model to Prevent Corruption in International Security Sector Assistance
Nahal Kazemi* [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract In 2021, the United States government identified countering corruption as a core national security interest for the first time. However, corrupt police and military forces supported by the United States in countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, actively undermine security and reveal a…
Online Edition
- A Foreign Organ: Courts-Martial as an Alternative to the 9/11 Military Commissions
- THE FETISHIZATION OF “THE HUMAN” IN THE CRITIQUE OF AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS
- Countering the “Humans vs. AWS” Narrative and the Inevitable Accountability Gaps for Mistakes in Targeting: A Reply to Kevin Jon Heller
- The Image of Combat, Not Community: A Critique on Law Enforcement Use of Military Equipment
- On the Pitfalls of Technophilic Reason: A Commentary on Kevin Jon Heller’s “The Concept of ‘the Human’ in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons”