Asaf Lubin

For more about the book visit my website: www.asaflubin.com

Two incredible days at @harvard.edu law school and @yaleisp.bsky.social talking about the international law of intelligence!

This website wouldn’t exist without the unbelievable talent of my husband & best friend, coder-extraordinaire @joaomarinotti.bsky.social, who singlehandedly developed it, wrapped it in a bow, & handed it to me as a gift for my 40th birthday. Grateful & loved doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Asaf Lubin Associate Professor of Law

A long-overdue moment 🌐

With tenure secured, it feels like the right time to finally have a personal website www.asaflubin.com — a streamlined, carefully curated, and beautifully designed home for all my scholarship.

I co-authored the piece with my former @columbiauniversity.bsky.social law school student Cherry Tang. This was my first time writing a full article with a student, and it was a genuine joy. I strongly recommend finding ways to involve students in our research and advocacy missions as academics.

It advances a fiduciary model for tech acquisition and data governance by international institutions, arguing that general principles of international law, as an Article 38(1)(c) source, may provide a doctrinal pathway for grounding such obligations as a matter of international law going forward.

It’s offprints day for “Data Injustice in Global Justice” (@ucdavislaw.bsky.social review)

The article analyzes the rapid move by int’l courts & orgs to datify global justice & humanitarian response, & the significant risks this shift entails.

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Achievement unlocked! Your SSRN downloads are going to spike and generations of law students will now be citing you. The unknown secrets of the Jessup.

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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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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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.

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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