This online series of essays grows out of the work of the Hoover Institution’s Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law. The essays reflect the task force’s determination to seek out and publish thoughtful and timely writings by leading scholars, policy analysts, and journalists on emerging national security threats and the daunting legal challenges they present.

Gabriel Schoenfeld: Secrecy, Leaks, and Selective Prosecution

Gabriella Blum: Invisible Threats

Shane Harris: Out of the Loop: The Human-free Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Jeremy A. Rabkin and Ariel Rabkin: To Confront Cyber Threats, We must Rethink the Law of Armed Conflict

Paul Rosenzweig: Cybersecurity and Public Goods: The Public/Private “Partnership”