Safe and Free:

National Security Surveillance and the Rule of Law Across Democratic States

Exploring the many ways in which rule-of-law countries regulate and oversee national-security surveillance.

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Through essays by leading researchers in nearly a dozen countries, the project explores the dizzying variety of ways in which rule-of-law states seek to keep national-security surveillance within their values and laws.

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Exploring the many ways in which rule-of-law countries regulate and oversee national-security surveillance. A project of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin.