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 🇺🇳, National Security 🪖, Cybersecurity 👾, Law and Tech 🤖, Espionage & Intelligence🕵️♂️, Torts 🏛️.
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Writes and Teaches about International Law 🇺🇳, National Security 🪖, Cybersecurity 👾, Law and Tech 🤖, Espionage & Intelligence🕵️♂️, Torts 🏛️.
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Asaf Lubin
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· Jan 10
The long wait is over. 2025 is going to be a great year. Coming soon with Oxford University Press.
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With 2.4 million #authors at the heart of SSRN, we’d like to share some thoughts from #researcher Asaf Lubin, Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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.
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.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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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.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I feel honored having my work spotlighted alongside such a distinguished body of academics.
Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which features our Meet the Author series with @asaflubin.bsky.social from @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social.
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Meet the Author: Asaf Lubin
Dr. Asaf Lubin is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and an Affiliated Faculty at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He additionally serve…
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August 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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.
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 piece is accessible here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/digi...
August 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🎙️ 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 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.
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.
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August 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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...
Check it out on @harvardlil.bsky.social's OpenCasebook.org platform: opencasebook.org/casebooks/15...
August 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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...
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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July 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
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Forthcoming work from Prof. @asaflubin.bsky.social highlighted by SSRN:
Shades of Legal Nuance: This paper explores the paradoxical nature of #espionage, highlighting its moral contradictions & the performative dance of denial & accusation.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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...
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
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...
Please consider submitting your or your students' scholarship. For more information on how to submit see here: www.asil.org/sites/defaul...
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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...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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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Check it out here:
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May 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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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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.
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
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
@ohiostatelaw.bsky.social @OhioStateLJ #SellingSurveillance
April 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
@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.
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.
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April 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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April 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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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@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
What an incredible line up of speakers and discussants for the coming workshop on private law and emerging tech!
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!
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!
April 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
What an incredible line up of speakers and discussants for the coming workshop on private law and emerging tech!
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Check out ISP fellow @asaflubin.bsky.social's new article: Data Injustice in Global Justice
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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
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March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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 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
🚨 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 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...
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
“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...
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.
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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
www.lawfaremedia.org/about/masthead
Masthead
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March 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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
www.lawfaremedia.org/about/masthead