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Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law
Significant gifts for the support of this task force are acknowledged from
- Koret Foundation
- Tad and Dianne Taube
Taube Family Foundation - James J. Carroll III
Jean Perkins Foundation
The National Security and Law Task Force examines the rule of law, the laws of war, and American constitutional law with a view to making proposals that strike an optimal balance between individual freedom and the vigorous defense of the nation against terrorists both abroad and at home. The task force’s focus is the rule of law and its role in Western civilization, as well as the roles of international law and organizations, the laws of war, and U.S. criminal law. Those goals will be accomplished by systematically studying the constellation of issues—social, economic, and political—on which striking a balance depends.
Peter Berkowitz serves as chair of the National Security and Law Task Force.
Featured Commentary and News
May 21, 2012
New essay concerning cyber threats from the National Security and Law Task Force
The newest essay, “To Confront Cyber Threats, We Must Rethink the Law of Armed Conflict,” by Jeremy and Ariel Rabkin, is available on the Emerging Threats essay series page.
May 17, 2012 | Lawfare
Empty Wheel on Domestic Drones
Over at the Empty Wheel blog, The Estimable Ms. Wheel critiques my critique of Friedersdorf and Krauthammer on domestic drones from earlier today—and she has a point which warrants a somewhat-mortified clarification from me...
May 11, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Peter Berkowitz and Tunku Varadarajan on the John Batchelor Show
Guests: McKay Coppins, Buzzfeed; Gordon Chang, Forbes; Tunku Varadarajan, Newsweek International; Peter Berkowitz, Hoover...
May 9, 2012 | Lawfare
Peter Berkowitz on Israel and the Laws of War
Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution has a new book out, entitled Israel and the Struggle Over the International Laws of War...
May 4, 2012 | Washington Post
Will military commissions survive KSM?
[The arraignment is] likely to serve as a make-or-break test for the military commissions system...
May 4, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Policing Terrorism
Why are the principles of federalism absent from national security policy?...
April 27, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Terry Anderson, Peter Berkowitz, and Henry Miller on the John Batchelor Show
Guests: Co-Host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Terry Anderson, PERC; Susan Berfield, Bloomberg; Henry Miller, Hoover; Peter Berkowitz, Hoover...
April 26, 2012 | Lawfare
Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers
Lethal autonomous weapons systems – the “robot soldiers” of our title – are going to come to the battlefield, sooner or later. So we should be asking now how they can and should be regulated within the law of armed conflict...
April 26, 2012 | Lawfare
Two New CRS Reports Related to the NDAA
Two new Congressional Research Service reports came out earlier this month concerning the NDAA, thanks to Steve Aftergood of Secrecy News...
April 24, 2012 | Lawfare
Obaydullah Oral Argument Summary
Chief Judge David Sentelle opens the hearing by announcing that it can’t be held in open session so he’s closing the court...