The National Security Law Program focuses on the roles of domestic and international law in national security matters, from the perspective of both lawyers and policymakers. The contours of the dynamic field of national security law are in constant flux, being shaped and reshaped each year in light of emerging threats, challenges and technologies. In addition to producing cutting edge scholarship (including student work and publications), the National Security Law Program aims to further academic dialog within the field through:
- Expert Engagement Bringing high-level policymakers and experts to Columbia Law School to speak with both students and faculty members through both public and private events.
- Innovative Coursework Developing specialized coursework in the field and helping to prepare students for national security law careers in public service or the private sector.
- Institutional Partnerships The Program enriches academic dialog through partnerships with other centers, programs, universities and think tanks.
Publications from 2020
Report: Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Pathways for Bridging Law and Policy, Columbia Law School, 2020, Nobuhisa Ishizuka, Masahiro Kurosaki, and Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2018
Article: Promoting International Cybersecurity Cooperation: Lessons from the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), Duncan B. Hollis and Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: What's So Great About the Declare War Clause?, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2017
Article: The Power to Wage War Successfully, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Cyber Strategy & Policy: International Law Dimensions, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Debating Autonomous Weapon Systems, Their Ethics, and Their Regulation Under International Law, Kenneth Anderson and Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2016
Working Paper: The Power to Wage War Successfully, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2014
Article: Adapting the Law of Armed Conflict to Autonomous Weapon Systems, Kenneth Anderson, Daniel Reisner, and Matthew C. Waxman
Article: The Power to Threaten War, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Adapting the Law of Armed Conflict to Autonomous Weapon Systems, Kenneth Anderson, Daniel Reisner, and Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2013
Essay: Self-Defensive Force Against Cyber Attacks: Legal, Strategic and Political Dimensions, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Law and Ethics for Autonomous Weapon Systems: Why a Ban Won't Work and How the Laws of War Can, Kenneth Anderson and Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Self-Defensive Force Against Cyber Attacks: Legal, Strategic and Political Dimensions, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: The Power to Threaten War, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2012
Working Paper: Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers, Kenneth Anderson and Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Regulating Resort to Force: Form and Substance of the UN Charter Regime, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2011
Article: Cyber-Attacks and the Use of Force: Back to the Future of Article 2(4), Matthew C. Waxman
Article: Cyber Attacks as "Force" Under UN Charter Article 2(4), Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: National Security Federalism in the Age of Terror, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2010
Article: The Structure of Terrorism Threats and the Laws of War, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2009
Article: Administrative Detention of Terrorists: Why Detain, and Detain Whom?, Matthew C. Waxman
Article: Police and National Security: American Local Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism after 9/11, Matthew C. Waxman
Article: The Law of Armed Conflict and Detention Operations in Afghanistan, Matthew C. Waxman
Article: The Use of Force Against States that Might Have Weapons of Mass Destruction, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Secret Evidence and the Due Process of Terrorist Detentions, Daphne Barak-Erez and Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: United States Detention Operations in Afghanistan and the Law of Armed Conflict, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2008
Article: Detention as Targeting: Standards of Certainty and Detention of Suspected Terrorists, Matthew C. Waxman
Essay: Silence of the Laws? Conceptions of International Relations and International Law in Hobbes, Kant, and Locke, Michael W. Doyle and Geoffrey S. Carlson
Working Paper: Detention as Targeting: Standards of Certainty and Detention of Suspected Terrorists, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2007
Article: Hamdan Confronts the Military Commissions Act of 2006, George P. Fletcher
Article: The Law of War and Its Pathologies, George P. Fletcher
Publications from 2006
Essay: Waging War Against Terror: An Essay for Sandy Levinson, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Publications from 2005
Article: Hamdi Meets Youngstown: Justice Jackson's Wartime Security Jurisprudence and the Detention of Enemy Combatants, Sarah H. Cleveland
Publications from 2004
Article: Ambivalence About Treason, George P. Fletcher
Publications from 2002
Article: On Justice and War: Contradictions in the Proposed Military Tribunals, George P. Fletcher
Article: Powers Inherent in Sovereignty: Indians, Aliens, Territories, and the Nineteenth Century Origins of Plenary Power over Foreign Affairs, Sarah H. Cleveland
Publications from 2001
Article: Crosby and the "One-Voice" Myth in U.S. Foreign Relations, Sarah H. Cleveland
Publications from 2000
Article: Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate, Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 1999
Article: Siegecraft and Surrender: The Law and Strategy of Cities and Targets, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 1994
Article: Reflections Inspired by My Critics, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Publications from 1980
Article: Constitutional Fate, Philip Chase Bobbitt