Trump Is Scaring Indian Americans Into Finding Their Political Voice
The Atlantic | March 17, 2017 | By Emma Green Highly educated immigrants from South Asia have often been able to live comfortably in America. With a new wave of hate crimes, that’s changing. Manik Suri is the archetypical overachiever from an Indian American family. The 34-year-old runs a start-up in Silicon Valley. He speaks four languages. He’s got […]
A New Wave of Legal Rebels
The American Bar Association Journal | September 2016 | By Terry Carter, Lorelei Laird, Victor Li and Stephanie Francis Ward In September 2016, the American Bar Association (ABA) recognized Manik Suri one of its 10 annual “Legal Rebels.” The Legal Rebel recognition celebrates women and men who are remaking their corners of the legal profession. The ABA Journal […]
MeWe: Streamlining Compliance, Simplifying the Law
CodeX: Stanford University Center for Legal Informatics | March 5, 2015 | By Manik Suri As anyone who rents an apartment, runs a restaurant, or owns a gym knows, there are a lot of rules on the books. These regulations can be difficult to navigate. MeWe’s mission is to simplify the law in order to help businesses and empower individuals. MeWe builds mobile […]
Meet the Entrepreneur Who’s Streamlining Government Inspections
Harvard Data-Smart City Solutions | February 25, 2015 The Data-Smart City Solutions initiative at Harvard Kennedy School published an interview with MeWe’s CEO, Manik Suri, as part of a series on “the new faces of public-private collaboration.” Read more here.
Why Civic Tech Startups Are Hard — And Worth It
MeWe Blog | July 8, 2014 | By Manik Suri At MeWe, we’re building lightweight, easy-to-use tools to help citizens and cities work together more effectively. We are a team of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about improving how communities works — in order to make individuals’ lives better. Food, housing, and building inspections are critical to public […]
Drawing Inspiration from the GovLab
MeWe Blog | July 1, 2014 | By Manik Suri In early 2013, I joined former US Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck to co-found a civic innovation platform called The Governance Lab (GovLab), aimed at using technology to transform governing institutions and improve individuals’ lives. Our motley crew of founders included a serial tech entrepreneur, […]
Recent Developments in Courtroom Lawfare
Harvard National Security Journal | March 25, 2013 | By Gerard Kennedy, Innokenty Pyetranker, and Manik Suri American courtrooms are now one of the hottest battlefields in the ongoing Global War on Terrorism. In recent months, U.S. federal courts have issued several opinions that offer insights into one particularly significant area of terrorism-related jurisprudence: civil […]
National Security by the Numbers: Why We Should Redouble Efforts to Express Analytic Certainty
Harvard National Security Journal | September 3, 2012 | By Manik Suri Over the past decade, national security policymakers have encouraged greater use of numbers, probabilities and estimative language to enhance intelligence and improve decision-making. Such efforts should be praised, yet they suffer from serious shortcomings that still need to be addressed. Read the full […]
Blurring the Civilian-Combatant Line: Legal Implications of Deploying U.S. Civilian Mariners in the Libyan Theater
Harvard National Security Journal | August 16, 2012 | By LT Elan Ghazal and Manik Suri The Pentagon’s growing use of civilian manpower to augment force projection — including the deployment of civilian mariners aboard U.S. warships during contingency operations against Libya in 2011 — raises serious questions at the intersection of law and war. […]
A Revamped U.S. Export Control System for the 21st Century
Harvard National Security Journal | November 13, 2011 | By Manik Suri While the United States has built one of the most sophisticated export control regimes in the world, its Cold War era architecture must be transformed to reflect today’s realities and meet tomorrow’s challenges. In 2010, President Obama launched a comprehensive Export Control Reform […]