As promised yesterday, the organizers of the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History have released a longer statement on their project. It reads: Artists’ Website Project Closes Gitmo and Replaces It W...

The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg reports: The Pentagon war crimes prosecutor on Wednesday revived a Bush-era prosecution and charged a Saudi captive at Guantánamo with a 2002 terror attack on a French ...

I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years.  Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...

While you weren’t looking, Guantanamo has been closed—and turned into an art museum! I am writing to the museum staff now for any information they might be willing to provide about this remarkable alter...

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: