U.S. District Judge John Bates has entered the following order in Maqaleh, the case testing federal court habeas jurisdiction for detainees at Bagram: MINUTE ORDER: The Court has received 81 petitioners'...

What follows is the list of speeches by senior officials of the Obama administration, from the President on down and particularly senior lawyers of the national security agencies, addressing national sec...

Recent Harvard Law School grads William Marra and Sonia McNeil--authors of the first Lawfare Research Paper--have released a short Brookings briefing paper on the regulation of future drones in domestic ...

Over at the political science blog The Monkey Cage, UNC-Charlotte professor James Igoe Walsh shares some polling research on American views about the use of force. He conducted an online experimental sur...

Just back from vacation I get to catch up on fun stuff that I missed while I was away.  At the top of my list is the Tallinn Manual recently released by a distinguished group of NATO experts.  The Manual...

The word from Judge James L. Pohl: the military commission in United States v.

David Remes, who represents several Yemeni clients at Guantanamo Bay, writes in with the following reflections on his latest trip to Guantanamo: David Remes’ Latest GTMO Adventures

Jonathan Witmer-Rich sends in the following commentary on the Amawi case, which I posted yesterday: Just wanted to offer a bit of commentary on U.S. v. Amawi, which you flagged on the Lawfare blog . . . .

The government has just posted a memorandum from March 12, 1945 in the Bahlul docket concerning the question of whether participation in a conspiracy to commit an offense against the law of war is punish...

The current commander of ISAF has written this op-ed in the Washington Post on the progress that is being made in Afghanistan, the collaboration between NATO and Afghan security forces, and the uptick in...

…which you can hit with a hammer and step on—without stopping? Also just out from MIT and friends …  

This is extremely impressive, and one video will give more information than I could with a long essay:

Haven’t read this yet, but U.S. v. Amawi, which came down yesterday, looks pretty interesting. The opinion is by Judge Danny Boggs, and while the disposition was unanimous, one of the judges wrote separa...

On August 16, a judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a suit brought against the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, under the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim...

These were just too good not to post immediately. As Raffaela mentioned in this morning's news roundup, a Navy SEAL is publishing a book about the Osama bin Laden raid.