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Just a few days ago, the counsel for military commission defendant Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al Nashiri filed a motion for a continuance, requesting that the four days of hearings slated for next wee...
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A while back, Jack asked a student named Samantha Goldstein to help him assemble some resources on targeted killing. The resulting bibliography has expanded over time, and we have decided to post it as a...
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The House Intelligence Committee has released a new draft of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. I think it is fair to say that the bill is becoming increasingly more moderate as ...
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Yesterday, pursuant to Judge Thomas Hogan's recent order, lawyers for habeas petitioner Musa'ab Omar al-Madhwani filed a brief addressing the district court's jurisdiction to hear al-Madhwani's emergency...
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At the Atlantic, the New York Times' Mark Mazzetti discusses where he gets his news. Thanks for the shout-out to Lawfare, Mark!
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Peter Margulies writes in with the following summary of recent NIST efforts to build a framework for best practices in cybersecurity:
The premise of President Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) i...
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Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times has another feature adapted from his forthcoming book The Way of the Knife: The C.I.A., a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth.
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Ken Anderson and I have just published a new policy paper through the Hoover Institution: Law and Ethics for Autonomous Weapon Systems: Why a Ban Won’t Work and How the Laws of War Can.
Our paper beg...
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Earlier today, in Anam et. al. v.
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Let’s begin with the New York Times’s editorial board, which argues in this piece that shifting the U.S.
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in with the following thoughts on the First Circuit briefing in the Tarek Mehanna appeal:
The federal material support statute forces courts and jur...
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Brian Foster of Covington & Burling, responds to my comments on his earlier guest post as follows:
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The latest in "counter-surveillance" fashion"
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Here is video of the plenary panel from last week's ASIL conference, entitled "International Law in the Obama Administration: The First Four Years." Moderated by Donald Donovan, the panel included former...
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From Zach Weiner over at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
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There are no major factual blunders in yesterday's New York Times editorial on the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes, and there's actually a fair bit in the editorial with which I agree.
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The New York Times has posted a lengthy and very interesting article by reporter Mark Mazzetti entitled "Rise of the Predators: A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood," which will appear on tomorrow's ...
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Peter Margulies recently discussed the effect of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA denying standing to plaintiffs challenging the NSA's warrantless wiretapping p...
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On Thursday, I participated in a particularly good discussion at Georgetown University Law Center on "Legal and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Weapons." Hosted by the school's National Security Law S...
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