DeeksFest 2025 was one of those rare moments in academic life when you pause, blink twice, and wonder how on earth you get to call this work. Spoiler the video includes many laughs, insights, and me accusing Ashley of being a mage and putting up a slide of her in a Harry Potter sorting hat.

I had a great time chatting with @ssrn.bsky.social about my scholarship for their “Meet the Author” series. I feel honored having my work spotlighted alongside such a distinguished body of academics.

🎙️ New podcast recording following my @lawfaremedia.org piece with Deborah Housen-Couriel, discussing wartime digital rights protection in the wake of the Ukraine and Netherlands v. Russia decision. The piece is accessible here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/digi...

Last month the @echr.coe.int issued a landmark judgment in Ukraine & the Netherlands v. Russia. It charted new ground on applying international human rights law during armed conflict & occupation—amid systematic and widespread violations of IHRL and IHL.

This Fall, I’ll be teaching Torts with a casebook I wrote: Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices. It’s free. It’s online. And it’s built with one goal in mind: student accessibility. Check it out on @harvardlil.bsky.social's OpenCasebook.org platform: opencasebook.org/casebooks/15...

New short piece cross-posted on both Opinio Juris and on the ICoCA’s official blog “Private Security Conversations”. Discussing the rising use of emerging tech by private security companies & its implications for int’l regulation. opiniojuris.org/2025/07/16/s... blog.icoca.ch/did-ai-break...

Forthcoming work from Prof. @asaflubin.bsky.social highlighted by SSRN:

I am once again chairing the Scholarship Award Committee of the International Law and Technology Interest Group at @asilorg.bsky.social. Please consider submitting your or your students' scholarship. For more information on how to submit see here: www.asil.org/sites/defaul...

Prof. @asaflubin.bsky.social's conversation with Maj. Emily Bobenrieth at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School is now available to listen to. Lubin covers more than a decade of research into the law and ethics that govern espionage. www.dvidshub.net/audio/86337/...

New National Security Law (NSL) Unscripted podcast episode from the JAG School just dropped, where I talk with the incredible Emily Bobenrieth about my forthcoming book and the broader regulation of espionage in international law. Check it out here: d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/audio/2505/D...

I love the @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social community. So much of my professional success in the last five years is thanks to the trust and support I received here for pursuing my work.

Offprints days are the best days. Can’t believe I’m done with this behemoth of a project on spyware regulation. @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social @OhioStateLJ #SellingSurveillance

Thanks @ssrn.bsky.social for highlighting my paper “Technology and the Law of Jus Ante Bellum” forthcoming with the @uchicagolaw.bsky.social Journal of International Law.

Spent the last 48-hrs with two of my absolute best academic friends, Russell Buchan and @leahwest-nsl.bsky.social, chatting about my forthcoming book on the role of int’l law in the regulation of espionage. Saying I had fun would be the understatement of the century! @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social

What an incredible line up of speakers and discussants for the coming workshop on private law and emerging tech!

Check out ISP fellow @asaflubin.bsky.social's new article: Data Injustice in Global Justice papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 New Paper Alert: "Data Injustice in Global Justice," forthcoming in issue 59(1) of the UC Davis Law Review. I co-authored the paper with Cherry Tang, my former Columbia Law student. The paper is accessible on @SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

“The precise scope and duration of the Defense Department order is not clear, as the line between offensive and defensive cyberoperations is often a blurry one.” Sounds like every single one of my cybersecurity law and intelligence law class sessions. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Great couple of days of conferencing in Amsterdam and then at @unileiden.bsky.social in Den Haag.. talking about tech companies’ liability under international criminal law, and new modes of regulation of industries of prediction. Both early works-in-progress.

Excited to officially join the @lawfare.bsky.social team as a Contributing Editor! The people on the masthead are some of the smartest & kindest working at the intersection of law, tech, & national & int'l security. It’s a real honor to be named alongside them. www.lawfaremedia.org/about/masthead

Did you miss last week's seminar with @asaflubin.bsky.social? Catch up via our YouTube channel! -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkG1...

Great story about the historical legacy and soaring heights of Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s (@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social) excellent cybersecurity, privacy, and tech law programming! news.iu.edu/live/news/43...

My dear colleague Hannah Buxbaum's new edited book, "Extraterritoriality in Comparative Perspective" is out. It examines the normalization of extraterritoriality as a legal technique with an in-depth focus on fifteen different legal systems. Check it out. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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We are excited to welcome @asaflubin.bsky.social at our February online seminar for a preview of his upcoming book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘺𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 (August 2025)! Join us on Thu 20 February, 16:00 (CET): universiteitleiden.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 "Technology & the Law of Jus Ante Bellum" now on @ssrn.bsky.social & forthcoming with the Chicago Journal of International Law's 2025 symposium issue focusing on "Technological Innovation in Global Governance." You can access the article here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Became an American today. 🇺🇸 Excited to roll up my sleeves and contribute to forming here a more perfect union.

Having an incredible time at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School (Charlottesville, VA), discussing my forthcoming book "The International Law of Intelligence" with the National Security Law Unscripted Podcast & teaching military attorneys this afternoon on espionage regulation.

Today's read: @asaflubin.bsky.social, author of IMO the most nuanced and insightful take on WhatsApp's legal triumph over NSO Group. We need a multilateral international framework centered around procurement powers. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/unpa... #malware #Pegasus #surveillance

The long wait is over. 2025 is going to be a great year. Coming soon with Oxford University Press.

Well this is a first.. an @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social student just shared a drawing of how she imagined the events on my final torts exam hypo playing out in reality. Can you guess which legal issues were discussed in the exam based on this drawing? Great reminder that I need to finish grading!

Even if we lose 🇺🇸 U.S. leadership in the fight for collective responses to #spyware regulation, the fight must go on, writes @asaflubin.bsky.social. In this context, initiatives like the 🇬🇧🇫🇷Pall Mall Process become "even more vital." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/unpa...

My thoughts on the NSO Group decision and its impact on the spyware industry. TL;DR: the case highlights the limits of a litigation-first strategy. There's no real alternative to a comprehensive multilateral framework in the fight against abusive spyware. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/unpa...

Important space to follow, and a great thought leader leading it @briannarosen.bsky.social!

The future is now.. and as always courts rush to embrace technology without any meaningful guardrails, outward facing public policy, or basic precautions.

A student just sent this to me. I guess I’m bound to start each torts proximate cause class session with this video moving forward. How far along would you extend liability? A modern video adaptation of Andrew’s illustration in Palsgraf about the chauffeur, the dynamite, and the nursemaid.

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Call for papers from the Georgetown Journal of International Law for its bi-annual symposium edition focused on emerging tech and international law (stated interest, of course, in AI). No deadline listed (though elsewhere it's given as Jan. 31, 2025). submissions.scholasticahq.com/conversation...

Come for the 50-state survey of product definitions and the new EU Product Liability Directive… stay for the random shoutout to Platonic Idealism.

Must read paper! The case studies and stories are wild and reflect the degrees and kinds of reorganizations (defragging) of each of our “property bundles” in the age of tech corporations…

I mean… community engagement is one of the goals of municipal art isn’t it? news.sky.com/story/us-cit...

This is belated, but very grateful to @asaflubin.bsky.social & @melissastewart.bsky.social for organizing an incredible JILSA meeting this past weekend - truly one of the most fun & intellectually generous workshops I’ve ever been part of, and can’t wait for Hawaii 2025!

I say get an agent now. And branching out into movie musicals may also make sense. Aviation law scholars for part 2 of Wicked? m.imdb.com/title/tt1984...

Okay, Justice Ketanji performing in "& Juliet" is definitely epic & brings into close proximity my two biggest loves: Law and Broadway. I just want to flag to all producers out there, that law profs (including this guy!) are equally ready for the big stage 🕺. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpu...

Another JILSA Annual Meeting in the books! JILSA is such a beloved intellectual community and it’s been my honor to serve as co-chair with @asaflubin.bsky.social. Thank you to @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social for hosting us. Next year @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social with Cody Corliss as my co-chair!

Had an incredible time hosting the JILSA Annual Meeting which officially ends my tenure as Co-Chair. This community has given me so much over the years. It’s a bittersweet moment but I’m leaving the org in the incredibly capable hands of @melissastewart.bsky.social & Cody Corliss who are rockstars!

I’m thrilled to learn that the International Studies Department at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies has voted to reccomend my appointment to join as an affiliated faculty in combination with my ongoing faculty position at the law school. More colleagues, more fun! 🕺🏼🪩

In 2022 I co-edited "The Rights to Privacy & Data Protection in Times of Armed Conflict" for @natohq.bsky.social Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE). The study of wartime digital rights protection turned into a full research agenda for me, and has carried through my scholarship.

🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨 Revisiting the age old debate: is software a product, a service, or just a glitch in the matrix? In this ILJ piece I dive into a 50-state survey, post-3rd Rstmt case law, & even throw in EU law analysis and Platonic idealism for good measure. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I have a joke about national security; but I’m really afraid it will bomb.