I. Afghanistan
- Laura Dickinson, A Legal and Policy Risk Analysis of the Erik Prince Plan to Privatize War in Afghanistan (Thursday, August 10)
II. Foreign Intelligence Analysis: President Trump
- Ned Price, What A Foreign Intelligence Analysis of President Trump Would Look Like (Tuesday, August 8)
III. Transgender Military Ban
- Morten G. Ender, Tweets, Trans, and the American Military (Monday, August 7)
- Kate Brannen, A Wrap-Up of Just Security’s Coverage of Trump’s Trans Ban (Friday, August 11)
IV. The Trump-Russia Investigation
- Marty Lederman, The Functions and Potential (but Fixable) Flaws of the “Protect Mueller” Bills (Monday, August 7)
- Ryan Goodman, Lots at Stake Whether Trump is Immune from Prosecution–even if Mueller doesn’t indict (Wednesday, August 9)
- Alex Whiting, FBI Search of Paul Manafort’s Home: What Does It Really Mean? (Wednesday, August 9)
- Julian Sanchez, A Few Thoughts on the Manafort Raid (Thursday, August 10)
V. Congress and an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against ISIS
- Scott Roehm, Bringing the AUMF Debate Back to its Constitutional Roots, and Recent History (Friday, August 11)
VI. North Korea
- Marty Lederman, No, the President Cannot Strike North Korea Without Congressional Approval (Thursday, August 10)
VII. Norms Watch
- Hannah Ryan, Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (August 4-August 11) (Friday, August 11)
VIII. Leak Investigations
- William E. Lee, Trump’s New War on Leaks: Reporters Caught in the Crossfire? (Monday, August 7)
IX. Sexual Violence and International Criminal Accountability for ISIS
- Catherine Powell, Rape as a Tactic of Terror: Holding the Islamic State Accountable (Friday, August 11)
X. Human Rights and Armed Conflict
- Adil Haque, Aggression, Armed Conflict, and the Right to Life: Does UN Human Rights Committee Get it Right? (Friday, August 11)
XI. Guantanamo
- Steve Vladeck, D.C. Circuit Holds that 9/11 Appellate Judge Should Have Recused (Wednesday, August 9)
XII. Surveillance and Cross-Border Data Requests
- Mailyn Fidler and Scarlet Kim, In the U.S.-U.K. Deal, Both Sides Deserve Scrutiny (Wednesday, August 9)
XIII. Kenya
- Mayesha Alam, Kenya’s Elections Matter for the U.S. (Tuesday, August 8)