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Asaf Lubin

@asaflubin.bsky.social

Associate Professor at Indiana University. Faculty Affiliations: BKC Harvard, ISP Yale, & HUJI Cyber Law. Writes and Teaches about International Law πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³, National Security πŸͺ–, Cybersecurity πŸ‘Ύ, Law and Tech πŸ€–, Espionage & IntelligenceπŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ, Torts πŸ›οΈ. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Haha. Yes that canonical and clairvoyant reference by judge Andrews to a robotic vacuum. Who doesn’t remember that one.

06.08.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Through a separate teaching award I've also been developing torts NextGEN bar compliant torts question sets & assignments.

Happy to share all these materials as well as my syllabus, my class notes, and slides with anyone who finds this interesting & wants to join the open casebook revolution.

06.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Each case is followed by a set of learning tools designed to help students engage & retain content: reading comprehension Qs, AI-generated visuals for context, short β€œfun facts” & test your knowledge MCQs.

The goal here is to make the reading process more active, intuitive, & effective.

06.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The case selection blends the classics with the contemporary, grounding core doctrines in modern factual contexts that speak to today’s students. The goal: help students see how tort law adapts (or fails to adapt) to the evolving ways people cause harm today not in 19th century.

06.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices This text offers a sustained exploration of private law remedies for harm arising from both intentional and accidental conduct. Throughout the text, we will examine the legal mechanismsβ€”developed by c...

With generous support from @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social & Indiana University Bloomington’s Libraries' Course Material Fellowship Program (CMFP), I’ve spent the last three years building a casebook that meets students where they are.

It's also available for purchase on Lulu: www.lulu.com/shop/asaf-lu...

06.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Like many of my colleagues, I find it increasingly absurd that we ask our studentsβ€”especially 1Ls, who have no say in their course selectionβ€”to spend hundreds of $ on new editions of casebooks that mostly repackage public domain court opinions.

This book is CC BY-NC licensed.

#OER #OpenCasebook

06.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

06.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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New short piece cross-posted on both Opinio Juris and on the ICoCA’s official blog β€œPrivate 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...

16.07.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

09.07.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching from Geneva no less.. as close to the stage in real time as I’ve ever been.

15.05.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

14.05.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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...

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/...

08.05.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

08.05.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

29.04.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Selling Surveillance Almost everything we do on the Internet is achieved through internetconnected devices, such as smartphones and laptops. This reality has produced a new sprawlin

Hey β€” there’s a version on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It is not the final version though which I suspect the journal will post on its website soon for open access.

21.04.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

21.04.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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

17.04.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

16.04.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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

05.04.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Data Injustice in Global Justice In May 2020, the United Nations Secretary-General unveiled a sweeping β€œData Strategy for Action by Everyone, Everywhere,” seeking to unlock the UN’s β€œfull data

Check out ISP fellow @asaflubin.bsky.social's new article: Data Injustice in Global Justice

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

20.03.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 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.....

08.03.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know! The article in fact goes on to explicitly say the Russians haven’t! Plus what ever happened to persistent engagement. It’s in the name. It’s supposed to be persistent. Decades of DoD grand strategy down the drain.

02.03.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

β€œThe 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...

02.03.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

01.03.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Masthead

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

01.03.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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 The International Law of Intelligence: The World of Spycraft and the Law of Nations, with Asaf Lubin

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

27.02.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Students in nation’s first cybersecurity law program provide legal advice on evolving tech The Indiana University Maurer Law School was the first to teach a stand-alone cybersecurity course. Today, the program has expanded to offer degrees and c...

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...

05.02.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Extraterritoriality in Comparative Perspective "Extraterritoriality in Comparative Perspective" published on 20 Jan 2025 by Brill | Nijhoff.

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...

01.02.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join us for this conversation!

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We are excited to welcome @asaflubin.bsky.social at our February online seminar for a preview of his upcoming book π˜›π˜©π˜¦ 𝘐𝘯𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘒𝘡π˜ͺ𝘰𝘯𝘒𝘭 π˜“π˜’π˜Έ 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘡𝘦𝘭𝘭π˜ͺ𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘀𝘦: π˜›π˜©π˜¦ 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭π˜₯ 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘺𝘀𝘳𝘒𝘧𝘡 𝘒𝘯π˜₯ 𝘡𝘩𝘦 π˜“π˜’π˜Έ 𝘰𝘧 π˜•π˜’π˜΅π˜ͺ𝘰𝘯𝘴 (August 2025)!

Join us on Thu 20 February, 16:00 (CET): universiteitleiden.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

29.01.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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