Asaf Lubin

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...

The blog post is accessible here:

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In our @lawfaremedia.org piece, Deborah Housen-Couriel & I explore this issue. The ruling affirms work I & others (with support from NATO CCDCOE) have advanced for years.

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But less has been said about the judgment’s groundbreaking implications for digital rights—especially privacy & data protection. For the first time, the Court affirms that privacy protections apply even during war, constraining how militaries collect & use personal data.

Great analysis has focused on right to life, attribution, & extraterritorial application—see commentary by Dapo Akande, Marko Milanović, Jasmine Sommardal, Miles Jackson, @isabellarisini.bsky.social & @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social, over @ejiltalk.bsky.social ECHRBlog @verfassungsblog.de.

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.

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

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.

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 “fun facts” & test your knowledge MCQs.

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

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.

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 mechanisms—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...

Like many of my colleagues, I find it increasingly absurd that we ask our students—especially 1Ls, who have no say in their course selection—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

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.

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

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

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:
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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.

Hey — 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.

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!

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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

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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.....

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.