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As Wells and Steve noted last week, the Senate approved the “Feinstein Amendment” to the FY2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Amendment, if enacted, would impose a clear statement rule f...
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John C.
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Over at Washingtonian, Shane Harris has a very generous blog post about Ritika and my recent chapter on James Madison and civil liberties during the War of 1812---which was published as part of a recent ...
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It doesn't strictly fit into the Lawfare domain, but this episode was interesting enough that it seemed worthy of a blog post: The Republican Study Committee (a very conservative caucus within the House...
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Three events at Brookings are coming up in the near future that will be of interest to readers:
1. The Internationalization of Law
Ninth Annual Raymond Aron Lecture Featuring Professor Mireille Delmas-...
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First up: on Monday the Hedges plaintiffs, with the United States' consent, sought additional time with which to file their response brief. (From the docket, it seems the plaintiffs actually had request...
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Let’s begin with some big news. SecDef Leon Panetta has announced that President Obama intends to nominate Gen. Lloyd Austin as the next commander of CENTCOM to replace General James Mattis.
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Jeh Johnson, the Department of Defense's General Counsel, will resign effective midnight on December 31 of this year. According to his resignation letter, Johnson plans to take some time off, and then t...
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After responding yesterday to Matt and Ken on lethal autonomous robots, Human Rights Watch's Tom Malinowski now takes aim at my critique of his group's report on robots with autonomous lethal capability.
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Walter Russell Mead coined the phrase “Libyan afterparty” to describe the many unintended and unhappy consequences – especially for the rise of Islamist terrorist power centers in Northern Africa – of th...
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Let’s begin with NDAA news: It passed the Senate yesterday 98-0, and, as our readers should know by now, it once again restricts the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay and now prohibits the milita...
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The ICRC, on its blog Intercross, has responded to a pair of recent articles in Slate on weapons.
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Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch has responded to our critique of their recent report on autonomous lethal systems.
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As readers know, last Thursday the Senate approved Senator Feinstein’s amendment to the NDAA, regarding the domestic detention of citizens and lawful permanent residents.
That wasn’t all.
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General Carter F. Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, spoke at George Washington University yesterday, and detailed how Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb is using Mali as a safe haven to recruit and train te...
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Belatedly, I want to note the completion -- on October 18/19 -- of the “Copenhagen Process on the Handling of Detainees in International Military Operations” and the release of “The Copenhagen Process Pr...
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Just in case you had a good weekend, Bruce Riedel of Brookings gives us the latest update on Al Qaeda’s emerging power bases in The Daily Beast: Under siege by drones in Pakistan and Yemen, al Qaeda ...
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I linked earlier to this new article in the course of critiquing Human Rights Watch's report on "killer robots," but it's worth separate notice.
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Most discussion of the NDAA on this blog focuses on detainee-related provisions, and a familiar argument is that some of these provisions inappropriately tie the President’s hands, stripping the executiv...
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One of the things that has struck me about the debate concerning cybersecurity legislation is that we don't have a really good baseline of existing legal authorities for the protection of cyberspace. Sl...
