Surveillance Oversight Should Be President-Proof, But We’re Still a Long Way Off
Last week, at an event co-hosted by Just Security and NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, the NSA’s Civil Liberties and Privacy Director Rebecca Richards dropped…
Publication
Digital Piracy Debunked: a Short Note on Digital Threats and Intermediary Liability
In the last two decades, the industry has deployed endlessly the rhetoric of the “digital threat” in order to demand harsher measures against digital piracy. Re…
Here’s why Europe can’t police terrorism very well
The terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels highlight an important dilemma for the European Union. Over the past two decades, the E.U. has made it much easier f…
The Building Blocks of Hybrid Justice
Abstract: The commission of mass atrocities — genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes — inevitably generates clarion calls for accountability from a…
Upcoming International Criminal Law Trifecta
This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous we…
ISIL = Genocide, Per Secretary Kerry
Secretary of State John Kerry announced on March 17 that, in his judgment, ISIL is committing genocide against a number of minority groups in Syria and Iraq, in…
Bringing Cyber Security into Emergency Management
In August 2015, I had the good fortune to present at the New York State Emergency Management Certification and Training (EMC&T) Academy in Albany, NY. The…
Show Us the Videotape
As Americans learn more about instances of police abuses, police cameras are having an increasingly profound influence on how the public views encounters betwee…
The Feds Are Wrong to Warn of “Warrant-Proof” Phones
If you’ve been paying attention to the fight between Apple and the FBI over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, you’ve probably heard the term “warrant-proof p…
Mapping War Crimes in Syria
This paper maps the range of war crimes being committed in Syria with reference to the applicable treaty and customary international law and prospects for prose…
Bitcoin is losing the Midas touch
Bitcoin, the decentralised, mainly digital currency that is neither issued nor guaranteed by central banks, has always seemed like a magic trick. Rather than sp…
Up from below: tackling cyber threats
More nations in the Asia-Pacific are adopting a bottom-up approach to cybersecurity regulation. That’s a good thing, Scott Shackelford writes. Cybersecurity is…