Asaf Lubin
LightNews LightNews
banner
asaflubin.bsky.social
Asaf Lubin
@asaflubin.bsky.social
3.3K followers 700 following 89 posts
Associate Professor at Indiana University. Faculty Affiliations: BKC Harvard, ISP Yale, & HUJI Cyber Law.

Writes and Teaches about International Law 🇺🇳, National Security 🪖, Cybersecurity 👾, Law and Tech 🤖, Espionage & Intelligence🕵️‍♂️, Torts 🏛️.

🏳️‍🌈
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
asaflubin.bsky.social
Asaf Lubin @asaflubin.bsky.social · Jan 10
The long wait is over. 2025 is going to be a great year. Coming soon with Oxford University Press.
asaflubin.bsky.social
Thanks @ssrn.bsky.social for highlighting João Marinotti and my forthcoming paper in the @michiganstateu.bsky.social law review where we discuss how private law principles might be revived to impose meaningful constraints on tech companies’ growing pseudo-sovereign authorities.
ssrn.bsky.social SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 13d
This article warns that #BigTech’s power has grown beyond regulation into a threat to the #ruleoflaw, as companies leverage legal protections like the #FirstAmendment & § 230 to avoid oversight.

Read: spkl.io/63322AkbJ8
Subscribe: spkl.io/63325AkbJ1

@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
This image shows a computer board with yellow lights.
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Asaf Lubin
iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
Read the latest from Prof. @asaflubin.bsky.social and Prof. @joaomarinotti.bsky.social...
ssrn.bsky.social SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 13d
This article warns that #BigTech’s power has grown beyond regulation into a threat to the #ruleoflaw, as companies leverage legal protections like the #FirstAmendment & § 230 to avoid oversight.

Read: spkl.io/63322AkbJ8
Subscribe: spkl.io/63325AkbJ1

@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
This image shows a computer board with yellow lights.
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reposted by Asaf Lubin
ssrn.bsky.social
This article warns that #BigTech’s power has grown beyond regulation into a threat to the #ruleoflaw, as companies leverage legal protections like the #FirstAmendment & § 230 to avoid oversight.

Read: spkl.io/63322AkbJ8
Subscribe: spkl.io/63325AkbJ1

@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
This image shows a computer board with yellow lights.
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
All aboard the Palsgraf express… it’s proximate cause day in my torts class so naturally I’m dressed as a train conductor ready to guide my students through the wonderful Cardozo Andrew’s maze that is the highlight of every 1L year.
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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.
September 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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.
August 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
🎙️ 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...
August 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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.
lawfaremedia.org Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · Aug 18
On July 9, the European Court of Human Rights found that Russia was responsible for human rights violations in its invasion and war in Ukraine. Deborah Housen-Couriel and @asaflubin.bsky.social explain the impact of the court's treatment of digital rights protections in the age of digital conflict.
Digital Rights in Armed Conflict and the Ukraine v. Russia Decision
A watershed decision from the European Court of Human Rights reaffirms privacy rights in war, limiting data collection by militaries in the age of digital conflict.
www.lawfaremedia.org
August 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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...
August 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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...
July 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Reposted by Asaf Lubin
iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
Forthcoming work from Prof. @asaflubin.bsky.social highlighted by SSRN:
ssrn.bsky.social SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · Jul 3
Shades of Legal Nuance: This paper explores the paradoxical nature of #espionage, highlighting its moral contradictions & the performative dance of denial & accusation.

Read: http://spkl.io/63326ABKq8
Subscribe: http://spkl.io/63321ABKqH

#Lawsky @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
This image shows a file that says top secret with a small camera on top.
July 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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...
May 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reposted by Asaf Lubin
iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
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/...
NSL Unscripted | Episode 23 – The International Law of Intelligence with Professor Asaf Lubin
In this episode, MAJ Emily Bobenrieth, Associate Professor in the National Security Law Department, talks with Professor Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor at Indianan University Maurer School of Law and...
www.dvidshub.net
May 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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...
May 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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.
iumaurerlaw.bsky.social Indiana University Maurer School of Law @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social · Apr 29
Congratulations to Prof. @asaflubin.bsky.social, who has been named one of six recipients of Indiana University's Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards, the most prestigious campus-level award given to pre-tenure faculty. Read more: blogs.iu.edu/maurerlaw/20...
April 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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
April 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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.
ssrn.bsky.social SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · Apr 17
The article critiques the limited focus of international rules concerning #military force, which address the initiation & conduct of #war without considering the significance of peacetime military preparations.

Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/link/Indiana...
April 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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
April 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
asaflubin.bsky.social
What an incredible line up of speakers and discussants for the coming workshop on private law and emerging tech!
joaomarinotti.bsky.social João Marinotti @joaomarinotti.bsky.social · Apr 5
Thrilled to share the final program for the 2025 Workshop on Private Law & Emerging Technology!

This 3-part virtual series is co-sponsored by Harvard’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law and Yale’s Information Society Project & Center for Private Law.

Don’t miss this incredible lineup!
Flyer for the “Workshop on Private Law & Emerging Technology,” co-sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and Yale Law School’s Center for Private Law. The workshop is a virtual series held over three Fridays: April 11, 18, and 25, 2025, from 1:30–3:30 PM Eastern. Spring 2025 Program: Property & Ownership – April 11 • 1:30–2:30: The Death of Ownership: Sale, Use, & Control of Goods with Embedded Software in the Digital Era – Sean Thomas (U. York Law, UK); Discussant: João Marinotti (Indiana Law – Maurer) • 2:30–3:30: Custom & Separate Ownership of Natural Resources – Joseph Schremmer (Oklahoma Law); Discussant: Monika Ehrman (SMU Law) Torts & Corporate Liability – April 18 • 1:30–2:30: The Trustworthy Company – Bryant Walker Smith (South Carolina Law); Discussant: Cristina Tilley (Iowa Law) • 2:30–3:30: The Tort Law We Need (Enterprise Liability) – Ben Sundholm (St. John’s Law); Discussant: Gregory Keating (USC Law) AI & Algorithmic Harms – April 25 • 1:30–2:30: AI & Causation: A Plea for Caution – Jonathan Irwy (Wharton Accountable AI Lab); Discussant: Mark Geistfeld (NYU Law) • 2:30–3:30: Beyond Algorithmic Disgorgement: Remedying Algorithmic Harms – Christina Lee (George Washington Law); Discussant: Caprice Roberts (Louisiana State Law) The flyer includes logos of the co-sponsoring institutions and a cartoon robot sitting at a desk. Registration and more information are available at privatelawtech.org.
April 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reposted by Asaf Lubin
yaleisp.bsky.social
Check out ISP fellow @asaflubin.bsky.social's new article: Data Injustice in Global Justice

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Data Injustice in Global Justice
In May 2020, the United Nations Secretary-General unveiled a sweeping “Data Strategy for Action by Everyone, Everywhere,” seeking to unlock the UN’s “full data
papers.ssrn.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
🚨 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.....
March 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
“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...
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia
The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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.
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
asaflubin.bsky.social
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
Masthead
www.lawfaremedia.org
March 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Reposted by Asaf Lubin
thehagueprogram.bsky.social
Did you miss last week's seminar with @asaflubin.bsky.social? Catch up via our YouTube channel! -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkG1...
The International Law of Intelligence: The World of Spycraft and the Law of Nations, with Asaf Lubin
YouTube video by The Hague Program on International Cyber Security
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM