David W. Opderbeck*[This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract The seafloor and its communications infrastructure is a key warfare domain. The global Internet depends on networks of undersea transcontinental cables that are remarkably vulnerable to physical attacks by conventional forces and shadow fleets. Nearly all this infrastructure is privately owned by a…

Uri Volovelsky † & Sivan Shlomo Agon ‡[This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are blockchain-based entities that operate without centralized management or shareholders, enabling worldwide token holders the option of participating in their governance through self-executing smart contracts. With approximately fifty thousand DAOs controlling over $30 billion…

Articles Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Anti-Money Laundering Challenge: Rethinking Global Frameworks for a Leaderless World By Uri Volovelsky & Sivan Shlomo Agon Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are blockchain-based entities that operate without centralized management or shareholders, enabling worldwide token holders the option of participating in their governance through self-executing smart contracts. With approximately fifty…

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…

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,…

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…