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...

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...

. . . here it is.

Those of you who followed the Lawfare Drone Smackdown will be interested in this post on DIY Drones: We had a a great time at the Drone Games at the Groupon offices in SF today. (They used to be called t...

I have now read the Human Rights Watch report, "Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots"---which calls for a preemptive ban on "fully autonomous" weapons systems and which Matt and Ken critiqued ...

I agree entirely with Ken that DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson’s speech on the end-of-conflict with al Qaeda “makes a serious attempt to grapple with the conditions defining the endgame” and is “a signif...

Wells is exactly right--and Senators Levin and Graham are exactly wrong--about the implications of last night's Senate vote approving Senator Feinstein's amendment to the FY2013 National Defense Authoriz...

Readers of Lawfare must sometimes wonder what all the cyber fuss is about.  How, after all, does cyber conflict occur.  Current events in Syria give a good sense of how conflict is happening.  Here is an...

As I posted in my news roundup yesterday, a drone strike in South Waziristan killed two militants, according to the Express Tribune and Dawn.

One of the issues we discussed regarding the proposed cybersecurity bills in the Senate was the question of a regulatory system to identify best practices and require them for critical infrastructure.  I...

Here it is ... this version is dated November 21, 2012, so it seems to be the current iteration:  White House Draft Executive Order (Dated 11-21-12).  Analysis to follow .....

[Updated 3:08 p.m] Last night, the Senate approved Senator Dianne Feinstein's amendment (No.

Courtesy of Todd Ruger from the National Law Journal, it appears that D.C. Circuit Chief Judge David Sentelle will be taking senior status as of February 12, 2013. That will reduce to seven the total num...

At this hour, Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson is giving the following speech at the Oxford Union in England: “The Conflict Against Al Qaeda and its Affiliates: How Will It End?” Jeh Charles Johnson...

The Obama administration has threatened to veto the NDAA if it contains provisions that continue to restrict transfer or Guantanamo detainees into the United States or to other countries, and NSC spokesm...

A significant amount of hysteria has greeted the World Conference on International Telecommunications (“WCIT-12”), which will be held from next Monday until December 14 in Dubai.  A casual reader of the ...