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There's been a lot of buzz in the press on the plea bargain reached between Majid Khan and the prosecution in his Military Commission case--and a lot of it has focused on the mere four years before Khan ...
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Oral argument transcripts from the Supreme Court hearing this morning: Kiobel and Mohamad. Update: Opinio Juris is posting several posts and guest posts on the oral argument, including this one by Chim...
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I just noticed this video of Jeh Johnson's speech at Yale Law School, the text of which I have already posted:
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As Jack has already noted, Ellen Nakashima has an article in the Washington Post and a post on Checkpoint Washington reporting that the White H
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Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reports that the White House thwarted NSA attempts to seek legislation that “would have required hundreds of companies that provide such critical services as electr...
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I've blogged before about S.
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Along with the earlier reading on drones in Pakistan by Pia Zubair Shah in Foreign Policy, also check out Council on Foreign Relations fellow Micah Zenko's short piece in the same March-April 2012 issue,...
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Brookings scholars Kenneth Lieberthal and Peter W. Singer have just released a paper entitled "Cybersecurity and U.S.-China Relations." It opens as follows:
There is perhaps no relationship as significan...
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A bomb went off in Katmandu, Nepal, killing at least three people.
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I only just noticed Kevin Jon Heller's "Update" to his post slamming my post about the Rahmatullah case.
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Journalist Pir Zubair Shah writes in the March-April 2012 issue of Foreign Policy. My Drone War: American drones have changed everything for al Qaeda and its local allies in Pakistan, becoming a fact of ...
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For those interested in the ongoing academic debate over the rationale and implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene, I have a new (short) piece in the Iowa Law Review Bulletin respondin...
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We have now had four episodes of The Lawfare Podcast. Each has been downloaded a goodly number of times, so I know that people are listening to the podcast, but I have less sense of what people think of ...
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The technological frontiers of conflict include cyberwar, robotics, and autonomous lethal weapons. It is time to add a new one: the use of neuroscience in conflict. Whether by creating new weapons to be...
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Wednesday’s oral argument on the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act generated a flurry of anticipatory and postmortem
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Clive Walker, a professor of law at the University of Leeds, responds to the following comment in my Rahmatullah post: "It’s funny how courts discover deference when they realize that they have no power ...
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There's a fun virtual symposium underway over at Opinio Juris on a new article by Oona Hathaway, Sabria McElroy, and Sara Aronchick Solow titled "International Law at Home: Enforcing Treaties in U.S.
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Protests in Afghanistan over the burning of Korans by NATO soldiers saw their deadliest day today with at least 10 casualties, says the New York Times. Guess a presidential apology only goes so far.
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The Kiobel case will be argued next Tuesday before the Supreme Court. I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post (headlined in the print edition "A Noble Cause That Goes Too Far") about the foreign poli...
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[Update: Over at Opinio Juris, John Dehn raises the interesting and important question whether it would be constitutional for a commission to convene at this point in regards to events in Iraq, given lan...
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