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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LAWFARE

From law + warfare.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LAWFARE

lawfare  [ˈlɔːˌfɛə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAWFARE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lawfare is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LAWFARE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lawfare

Lawfare is a recently coined word not yet appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, a portmanteau of the words 'law' and 'warfare', said to describe a form of asymmetric warfare. Lawfare is asserted by some to be the illegitimate use of domestic or international law with the intention of damaging an opponent, winning a public relations victory, financially crippling an opponent, or tying up the opponent's time so that they cannot pursue other ventures such as running for public office, similar to a SLAPP lawsuit. Other scholars see it more neutrally as a reference to both positive and negative uses of law as an instrument of warfare or even to the legal debates surrounding national security and counterterrorism.

Definition of lawfare in the English dictionary

The definition of lawfare in the dictionary is the use of the law by a country against its enemies, esp by challenging the legality of military or foreign policy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LAWFARE


airfare
ˈɛəˌfɛə
carfare
ˈkɑːˌfɛə
eelfare
ˈiːlˌfɛə
fieldfare
ˈfiːldˌfɛə
funfair
ˈfʌnˌfɛə
Mayfair
ˈmeɪˌfɛə
thoroughfare
ˈθʌrəˌfɛə
throughfare
ˈθruːˌfɛə
warfare
ˈwɔːˌfɛə
welfare
ˈwɛlˌfɛə
workfare
ˈwɜːkˌfɛə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAWFARE

law student
law term
law-abiding
law-abidingness
law-and-order
law-and-order issues
law-breaking
lawbook
lawbreaker
Lawes
lawful
lawfully
lawfulness
lawgiver
lawgiving
lawin
lawine
lawing
lawk
lawks

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAWFARE

animal welfare
bill of fare
chemical warfare
child welfare
class warfare
electronic warfare
fanfare
fare
full fare
full-fare
information warfare
jungle warfare
on welfare
psychological warfare
public welfare
social welfare
taxi fare
the welfare
trench warfare
wayfare

Synonyms and antonyms of lawfare in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lawfare» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LAWFARE

Find out the translation of lawfare to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lawfare from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lawfare» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

lawfare
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

guerra jurídica
570 millions of speakers

English

lawfare
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lawfare
380 millions of speakers
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الحرب القانونية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

lawfare
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lawfare
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

lawfare
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lawfare
220 millions of speakers

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Undang-undang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lawfare
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

lawfare
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lawfare
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hukum
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lawfare
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

lawfare
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कायद्याचे उल्लंघन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lawfare
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lawfare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lawfare
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

lawfare
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lawfare
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

lawfare
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

lawfare
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

lawfare
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

lawfare
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lawfare

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAWFARE»

The term «lawfare» is regularly used and occupies the 107.751 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LAWFARE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lawfare» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lawfare» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lawfare

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAWFARE»

Discover the use of lawfare in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lawfare and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech: A First Amendment ...
The free speech rights of authors, researchers and journalists writing on issues of public security and national concern are increasingly under attack through both violent and non-violent means.
Brooke M. Goldstein, Aaron Eitan Meyer, 2011
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Global Legal Challenges: Command of the Commons, Strategic ...
The term "lawfare" was apparently coined in the 1970s, but initially lacked a coherent definition. Today the concept is most often associated with Air Force Major General Charles Dunlap, who defines lawfare as the strategy of using or misusing ...
Michael D. Carsten, 2007
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Lawfare: Use of the Definition of Aggressive War by the ...
This work is unique in that it not only traces the evolution of the definition of aggression and aggressive war from the Soviet and Russian Federation perspective, it looks at that progression both from the vantage point of leading edge ...
Christi Scott Bartman, 2010
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Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights
(e.g. to secure human rights).12 More recently, Kennedy has used the term ' lawfare' when referring to this practice.13 On Kennedy's account, the practice of lawfare has gained currency and become more refined in the decades since the  ...
Rob Dickinson, 2012
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Lawfare: Use of the Definition of Aggressive War by the ...
This dissertation seeks to contribute to the understanding of the definition of the terms "aggression" and "aggressive war" by tracing the political, legal and military use of the terms by the Soviet Union from that posed at the 1933 ...
Christi Scott Bartman, 2009
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Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force
Lawfare The Israeli experience with Hezbollah serves as a useful introduction to the concept of lawfare. A controversial term, lawfare refers to the ability of actors to use international law to limit and mitigate military disadvantage.62 ...
Robert M. Farley, 2014
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The Counterinsurgent's Constitution: Law in the Age of Small ...
4 Critics of lawfare focus on international groups and adversaries. They criticize nongovernmental organizations for bringing lawsuits—habeas corpus for detainees, stays of execution, and civil liability for governments that use torture— and ...
Ganesh Sitaraman, 2012
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New Battlefields/Old Laws: Critical Debates on Asymmetric ...
23. Policy Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Washington, DC, November 29, 2001: 4, www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/Web%20Working%20Pa- pers/Use%20of%20Force/Dunlap2001.pdf. See, also, C. Dunlap, “Lawfare amid  ...
William C. Banks, 2013
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Lawfare: The Columbian Case
This monograph provides a holistic understanding of this complex situation currently taking place in Colombia, shows how FARC and ELN are using lawfare in the context of the protracted people's war as a tool to challenge the government, and ...
Juan M Padilla, 2012
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Why Still Care about Israel?: The Sanctity of Covenant, ...
Lawfare is warfare not by customary military means, but by manipulating or changingthe laws oftraditional Western civilization for otherwise unobtainablepoliticalgoals. As such, it is an abuse of the law for disingenuous means.[160] Because it ...
Sandra Teplinsky, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAWFARE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lawfare is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post - Lawfare
Dominating the news, and Lawfare's coverage: Iran. Four deadlines and 18 days of final discussions later, the United States reached a historic ... «Lawfare, Jul 15»
2
Okinotorishima-ization: South China Sea arbitration case enters …
However, the awareness that the resort to lawfare may not yield a sharp, cathartic victory and instead turn into a long, bitter struggle between a ... «Asia Times, Jul 15»
3
How 3D-Printing Gave One Girl a New Lease on Life
By Tamara Cofman Wittes in Lawfare. The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C.. «TIME, Jul 15»
4
10 reasons the Iran deal is ludicrous
There is, in fact, a sunset, as Lawfare notes: “For ten years, [at Natanz] Iran's (limited) enrichment program will continue exclusively with 5,060 ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
5
ICC orders its prosecutor to consider 'Mavi Marmara' war crimes …
Until Thursday's decision, most thought the flotilla incident and the lawfare surrounding it were in the past. In the 2010 incident, a group of ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
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The South China Sea Showdown Heads to Court
Legal warfare (“lawfare”) in the South China Sea has reached a critical stage. The Philippines has gone full force in using the language of the ... «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
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Why government-mandated encryption backdoors are bad for US …
Susan Landau, professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and one of the paper's authors, in this Lawfare Institute blog ... «TechRepublic, Jul 15»
8
Defeating Israel with funny law
Alternatively known as “Lawfare”, the vindictive onslaught breaks down into four elements that chill the heart. The agenda: To bring the ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
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The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Lawfare kicked off the week with a post from FBI Director James Comey on encryption and “going dark,” following up on his conversation with ... «Lawfare, Jul 15»
10
Could ISIS Sue America?
... family of nations is at stake. If Israel is not protected from lawfare, then Britain and other Western democracies will fall victim to it soon after.". «Arutz Sheva, Jul 15»

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