The Wall Street Journal reports  (paywall, sorry) that France is considering a slate of new antiterrorism laws, including at least one prevention-oriented measure that appears to track 18 U.S.C.

Eric Posner has a piece in Slate which argues – based on this report in the WSJ about the ever-thinner forms of consent by Pakistan to USG airstrikes in that country – that the United States is making a ...

Don't miss this excellent piece, over at the Volokh Conspiracy, by Stewart Baker about the opportunity created by the poor cybersecurity habits of hackers.

This just in from defense lawyers in the 9/11 case: A statement regarding the government's changed position on the handling of statements made by the accused in United States v.

Captain Brittany Warren, a US Army JAG who has just completed her JD at GW Law School, has an article appearing in the Military Law Review (Vol. 212, 2012, p. 133, link is to jagcnet.army.mil), "The Case...

Yesterday, we promised to be in attendance during today's argument session in Khairkhwa v. Obama And this morning, yours truly sat through two standard-issue D.C.

Dawinder S. Sidhu of the University of New Mexico School of Law writes in with the following comments on the fallout form the shooting at the Sikh Temple at Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Anton Metlitsky, counsel in the Appellate practice of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, writes in with the following comments on the Kiobel oral argument. Metlitsky represents the Rio Tinto Group in its pending cer...

A reminder that tomorrow morning will see argument before the D.C. Circuit in the case of Khairkhwa v. Obama.  In short, the case concerns a Taliban functionary who claims to have played a civilian---not...

I am sometimes asked what academic journals I would recommend for research in terrorism and political violence studies from an interdisciplinary social science perspective.  Two stand out, although unfor...

As many Lawfare readers know, John Witt has recently published a book called Lincoln’s Code.  The book is about, among many other things, the history of the laws of war in the United States, especially i...

Gabor Rona of Human Rights First sent me the following note in response to my posts responding to his comments on my comments on Thomas Jocelyn's and Captain Patrick McCarthy's comments on Omar Khadr.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided not to review the case of Suleiman v. Obama.  No surprise there; the justices hardly seem to wish to wade into detention issues these days.

Lawfarers, here are two developments in the 9/11 case. The first is this unusual piece of procedural news, brought to us by The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg: Rat droppings and mold are health hazards ...

So we learn from ABC's Jake Tapper, who in turn quotes from Mark Bowden's forthcoming book, "The Finish," about the bin Laden raid: If Osama bin Laden had surrendered to the Navy SEALs, President Obama w...