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Further to the prior exchange between myself and Kevin Jon Heller regarding allegations of drone strikes targeting persons in the context of funerals or post-strike rescue activity, Jens David Ohlin has ...
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The reply brief in support of certiorari in Al-Madhwani v. Obama has been filed. We earlier posted Al Madhwani’s cert petition and the government's opposition to cert.
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The Governments of Germany, the
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Yesterday was a slow news day.
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David Bosco writes Foreign Policy's The Multilateralist blog and is the author of the fine 2009 book, Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World and, finally, is my...
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Raffaela is correct that there's nothing terribly surprising in the D.C. Circuit's Suleiman opinion, which was publicly released yesterday. In fact, the brief opinion--written by Judge Thomas Griffith fo...
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The Heritage Foundation on Thursday is holding an event entitled "Decoding Afghanistan: What Are U.S. Goals and How Close Are We to Achieving Them?" The event, which is scheduled for 11:30 am-1:00 pm, is...
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A very light news day...
The FAA bill that the House passed has now been approved by the Senate as well, reports Keith Laing and Josiah Ryan at The Hill. It is a four-year extension bill, which means no...
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The D.C. Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's judgment in Suleiman v. Obama, which we noted two weeks ago, is available here.
Nothing terribly surprising in the opinion, which was written by Jud...
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Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller responds to my earlier post regarding the BIJ report on drone strikes in Pakistan, and in doing so draws attention to a very interesting question. [Update: see Dap...
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Don't let it ever be said that the D.C. Circuit always rules against detainees. Today, a three-judge panel ruled kept Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul’s military commission appeal alive--likely against ...
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[Note: a reader responded that I missed the point that an important point about the underlying BIJ report, one that puts the "A Question of Legality" component of the report in a different light.
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In two earlier posts I’ve focused on some of the particular issues that may arise during the Senate’s consideration of a comprehensive cybersecurity bill. The focus on the Senate is apt, inasmuch as Sen...
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In recent months, it has become clear that a surprising number of people are using Lawfare as a research tool. This was most unexpected, and we frankly had never considered research ease when we designed...
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Ben already noted the report released over the weekend by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism regarding CIA drone strikes that have allegedly targeted rescuers responding to the scene of earlier strik...
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Brian Jenkins of RAND sharply criticizes the NDAA's detention provisions in this short piece at Foreign Affairs.
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Paul Stephan, the John C. Jeffries, Jr.
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The report to which I linked earlier has several pieces accompanying it.
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The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has reported before on civilian casualties in drone strikes, but this new report has a twist: It is alleging that "The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan...
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Russia and China today vetoed a proposed UNSC Resolution (stories here and here) that would have condemned the abuses in Syria, demanded their cessation, required Syria to give free rein to League of Ara...
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