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Senator Daniel Inouye died yesterday. The former Chairman of the Senator Appropriations Committee defense subcommittee was 88.
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Over at the OUPblog, Sandesh Sivakumaran has a post entitled “Killing Journalists in Wartime: A Legal Analysis.” Sivakumaran, who teaches at the University of Nottingham, is the author of The Law of Non-...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following provocative thoughts on the Newtown shootings and layered physica...
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No, no no---I didn't quit my job. I was knee-deep in other stuff. So a big round of applause goes to Ritika for taking over the roundup while I've been otherwise engaged.
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From the shameless self-promotion department, this: last week Brookings published my recent paper on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems---drones---into our national airspace.
The piece identif...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a decision that has the effect of both limiting political branch control over human rights suits against foreign officials while at the sa...
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This would certainly have national security implications.
The White House promises to respond to online petitions that receive 25,000 signatures.
This one has more than 29,000:
Secure resources and fun...
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I'm sure many of you have become addicted to the TV show, Homeland. Personally, I find it a bit of a bus man's holiday and rather unrealistic in its characterizations.
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It remains, the one and only Lawfare mug. Our symbol on social media. And the perfect gift for that special someone hung up on the Hard National Security Choices.
I would reiterate that all proceeds g...
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About six weeks ago, I flagged the (in my view, alarming) filing by the government of a notice of appeal to the D.C. Circuit in the Guantanamo MOU/continuing access-to-counsel litigation.
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Earlier this week, I posted a short note about the National Intelligence Council and its projection of alternate futures for the year 2030. While I would never say the work was derivative :-), I should ...
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I may be exiled from the blog for saying this, but the New York Times has an excellent analysis of the recently concluded WCIT treaty meeting in Dubai in today's paper. It begins:
At the global treaty c...
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Earlier today, while looking for any excuse to avoid grading while working very hard on grading the exams for my National Security Law class, I noticed several law-oriented blogs posting links to Gizoogl...
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Here is the White House's supplemental consolidated report regarding the deployment of U.S. armed forces. The report is addressed to the Speaker of the House, and was---in the President's words---"prepa...
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Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v.
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According to a notation on the Supreme Court's docke
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It’s Friday, folks---but there’s a fair bit going on.
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The D.C. Circuit has handed down its latest Guantanamo habeas case, Khairkhwa v. Obama. The brief, unanimous opinion by Senior Judge A. Raymond Randolph for himself and Judges Judith Rogers and Merrick G...
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As you may have read by now (reports from the New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good), that the WCIT conference has ended in disarray. The United States and a number of other Western countr...
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Well, we know it’s long---more than 6,000 pages long. We know it’s critical. And we know it was approved on a 9-to-6 vote. Here’s the statement by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Select Comm...
