Following news about U.S and Israeli plans for possible new strikes on Iran following the midterm elections, U.S. Army ...

Mark Fallon, former Deputy Assistant Director and Chief Investigator for the Guantánamo Military Commissions and CERL ...

The Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies in Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar on ...

CERL Affiliated Faculty Member and Penn Perry World House Director joined India Today this week to discuss strategic advantages in ongoing conflicts, current ...

As the politics impacting the recent Section 702 debate showed, the overriding element of uncertainty regarding any future renewal of the 702 program lies in the composition of the political branches ...

Last week in Vienna, the Austrian government organized a two-day conference to further discussion and the hopeful development of a legally binding instrument to regulate autonomous weapons systems ...

Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, which began early Friday, June 13, are lawful, contrary to the expressed views of various commentators and politicians, including Senator Bernie ...

Editor’s note—This post is part of a special series of CERL’s The Rule of Law Post titled, “The President, the U.S. Military, and the Authority to Order Lethal Boat Strikes.” Since September 2, 2025, ...

“Whatever level of deference may be due the President in other contexts, far less is due when the executive branch deploys the military domestically during times of peace,” amici argue Penn’s Center ...

Each year, the U.S. government conducts thousands of warrantless searches of Americans’ emails, text messages, and phone calls under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

With technological innovations from both private and governmental sectors, the prospect of enhanced warfighters is increasingly plausible. Hypothetical enhanced warfighters, or “super soldiers,” would ...

Critics, media outlets and even legislators describe the Section 702 collection program as “warrantless” surveillance—an appellation suggesting an evasion of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement ...