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Told you so. President Obama has signed this year's NDAA--along with a meek kind of signing (whining?) statement. Here is the statement's discussion of the detention-related provisions--an account of whi...
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It’s that time of year…time for my annual round-up of national security-related offerings at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, which occurs in New Orleans this coming weekend...
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As Raffaela posted earlier, the government has won a substantial victory in the FOIA litigation in which the Times and the ACLU sought disclosure of information about CIA drone strikes, including the leg...
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Judge Colleen McMahon of the District Court of the Southern District of New York has granted summary judgment to the government in the consolidated FOIA cases brought by the New York Times and the ACLU. ...
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And we're back.
Craig Whitlock writes in the Washington Post about the Obama administration's use of rendition---a matter about which Steve and Matt have already offered thoughts.
The Taliban i
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Steve has already noted (and critiqued) this Washington Post story about continued “renditions” by the United States government.
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Gregory S.
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Under the snazzy headline "Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns," today's Washington Post has a long article on the overseas arrest, detention, and subsequent criminal indictment...
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Bryant Walker Smith (a fellow at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society) has authored a new CIS White Paper on whether self-driving cars are, or can be, legal in the United States. His answer is ......
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Amid all the fiscal cliff hubbub, the Senate on Friday approved, and President Obama on Sunday signed, the inelegantly if accurately named "FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012." The new law ...
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Kevin Jon Heller has responded to my earlier comments on his earlier post---which itself responded to my exchange with
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Benjamin Farley writes in with the following comments on my exchange with Kevin Jon Heller and Glenn Greenwald:
I just read your post responding to Kevin Jon Heller's response to your conversation with G...
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I tend to think of the Lawfare year as corresponding with the academic year, since Lawfare was born in September 2010, and its annual cycle thus corresponds roughly to the beginning of the fall semester....
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University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel has an important opinion piece in the December 28, 2012 Wall Street Journal on the role of religion in the US military, "The Military Balance of Faith...
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Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller has a piece commenting on Glenn Greenwald's and my recent discussion of the difference between the accidental killing of children with drones and the intentional ki...
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On Thursday, lawyers for Abd Al Rahim Hussein Al-Nashiri filed their reply brief in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, a civil case now pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Al-...
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From the vanguard of the revolution, reports Forbes, comes this very important effort to prevent our robot overlords from spying on us:
The city of Berkeley, Calif., this week took the first steps toward...
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Gabor Rona of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Eric Posner's Slate article, to which I linked the other day:
Eric Posner's dismissal of "the human rights regime" would come as ...
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Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---who jointly filed an amicus brief in the Hedges appeal---are asking for argument time in the coming Second Circuit oral argument.
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The Washington Post has an excellent article by Sudarsan Raghavan on civilian casualties in drone strikes in Yemen and the ways in which the Yemeni government tries to mask the U.S. role in these strikes...
