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Robert Chesney
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TikTok, WeChat, and Biden’s New Executive Order: What You Need to Know
President Biden has issued an executive order revoking the sanctions President Trump famously imposed in August 2020 on TikTok and on WeChat (as well as…
Adapting to the Cyber Domain: Comparing U.S. and U.K. Institutional, Legal and Policy Innovations
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made it official in a statement to Parliament on Nov. 19, 2020. “I can announce that we have established a National…
Sanctioning Russia for SolarWinds: What Normative Line Did Russia Cross?
The United States has just sanctioned various Russian entities in express response to the SolarWinds Orion exploit campaign. But what normative line, if any, is…
Register Here for U.S. Cyber Command's Annual Legal Conference
U.S. Cyber Command is hosting its annual legal conference this Thursday (March 4th), and all are welcome to (virtually) attend. Advance registration is required. You…
Targeting Shahla’i in Addition to Soleimani: Unpacking the Legal Questions
Remarkable news from the Washington Post this afternoon. It appears that, at roughly the same time that U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) conducted the…
Military Cyber Operations: The New NDAA Tailors the 48-Hour Notification Requirement
The soon-to-be-enacted National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA fiscal 2020) includes a provision that will fine-tune the range of military cyber operations…
Covert Military Information Operations and the New NDAA: The Law of the Gray Zone Evolves
In recent years, Congress has been building a domestic legal framework for gray zone competition (that is, the spectrum of unfriendly actions that states may…
Covert Military Information Operations and the New NDAA: The Law of the Grey Zone Evolves
In recent years, Congress has been building a domestic legal framework for grey zone competition (that is, the spectrum of unfriendly actions that states may…
Call for Teams: The Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Policy Competition in Austin in January
The Atlantic Council’s famous “Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge” competition is coming to Austin in January, in partnership with the Strauss Center at the University of…