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It's hard to talk about anything but Syria today, so we won't really attempt it.
In a formal statement this afternoon, Secretary of State John Kerry cited "clear" and "compelling" evidence that the Assa...
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As Wells noted, the British Parliament rejected a motion of support for British participation in military strikes against Syria in response to its alleged use of chemical weapons against its citizens. H...
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Such is the gist of this evening's Washington Post report.
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The world now has extraordinary access to the details of how the United States operates and funds its intelligence agencies, courtesy of Edward Showden and the Washington Post. This will lead to no good...
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Syria is on the front pages of every newspaper and at the forefront of everyone's minds, so we begin with the latest there.
President Obama was interviewed by PBS Newshour yesterday and said that althou...
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As long as we are covering the waterfront when it comes to the legal questions raised by the prospect of using force in Syria, we should say something about the role of the War Powers Resolution. After ...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a discussion draft of the proposed cybersecurity framework called for by President Obama's Executive Order. Here is a draft: NIST Discuss...
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For years, the Intelligence Community has fought hard against the disclosure of its budget. Even the top line total was, for many decades, classified. Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post...
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A few years ago I wrote a Council on Foreign Relations report titled Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities: International Norms and U.S.
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The situation in Syria being fluid, and our writers having authored a good number of posts on the subject, I thought it might be useful to compile the blog's work on legal issues, international and domes...
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Dapo Akande has a pithy analysis of the legality of humanitarian intervention at EJIL: Talk! Akande notes that “there is very little State support for the view that international law permits States to u...
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So writes the D.C. Circuit in this terse per curiam order. It was issued Monday.
Al Warafi, a Yemeni detainee, had claimed in the District Court that he had not joined the Taliban, but instead worked o...
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I agree with Jack's analysis of the UK statement.
I would add that the British legal position is not new. The British relied on the doctrine of humanitarian intervention for their participation in the...
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Here is the UK’s statement on “the legality of military action in Syria following the chemical weapons attack in Eastern Damascus on 21 August 2013.” It maintains that “[i]f action in the Security Counc...
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Big news from the Department of Defense this morning: two detainees have been transferred from the Guantanamo detention facility to the government of Algeria.
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As I noted in an earlier post, the newly emerging uses of multi-lateral military force for humanitarian intervention -- such as to respond to states that gas their own citizens -- raise profound issues a...
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I'm leaving the Syria war powers discussion to those around here who actually know something about the subject, but I had one glancingly-related thought. If you're trying to decide the legality of a reso...
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Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro argue in the WP that military force in Syria absent Security Council authorization would violate the U.N. Charter, and they sketch alternatives to intervention. I agree ...
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Lawfare readers already know Laura Dean, author of the Cairo Diary we have been running the past few months. I met Laura a few years ago, when she was a Senate staffer and a close mutual friend brought ...
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You can find today's letter here.
