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That's what Dylan Boyd pled to today. It's quite a mouthful, but if you go through it slowly it does actually prove coherent--though also good fodder for a criminal law exam.... In any event, from the ...
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As noted previously, I testified in late July before House Armed Services regarding detention policy, with a focus on the Warsame situation. I've seen received a handful of QFRs from committee members, ...
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Not a lot in the headlines the past couple of days.
Josh Gerstein at the Politico reports that the CIA is conducting an internal review of its relationship with the NYPD.
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The next episode in the D.C. Circuit’s Guantanamo detention saga: Suleiman v. Obama (Case No. 10-5292), an appeal set for oral argument this Friday before the D.C. Circuit.
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DOJ had a heck of a good run in terorrism and national security cases over the past seven days, including three sets of guilty please plus a hefty sentence in another case. The details appear below:
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Published by Oxford University Press (2011)
Reviewed by Alice Diana Beauheim
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Over at Opinio Juris, Julian Ku and Kevin Jon Heller have good commentary on the U.N. Human Rights Council's expert statement that takes issue with the earlier conclusion of the special panel appointed b...
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Please see the below Call for Papers from the William Mitchell Law Review.
Call for Papers
The National Security Issue of the William Mitchell Law Review brings together the opinions of expert commentat...
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Fordham Law School has announced that Karen Greenberg, the former executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law, will lead its new Center on National Security. Karen is an...
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House and Senate intelligence committees have reached a bipartisan (really, I said it) agreement to remove two provisions from the authorization bill they're considering. We shared last week the details ...
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Steve Vladeck is a professor of law (and Associate Dean for Scholarship) at American University Washington College of Law. Steve is the author of many terrific articles relating to national security an...
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Published by Cambridge University Press (2010)
Reviewed by Jennifer C. Daskal
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That was the subject of a debate the other day put on by a group called Intelligence Squared--which was attended and summarized by Lawfare reader John Mattiace. Mattiace is an attorney practicing in New ...
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...is that of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music--perhaps the building in the world that most resembles the towers. Built approximately ten years earlier by the same architect, Minoru Yamasaki, it...
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Unaccustomed as I am to praising the New York Times opinion pages for their handling of matters related to counterterrorism, my hat is off to them today for running as Op-Art this beautiful image, entitl...
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The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review yesterday evening affirmed the conviction and life sentence of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, an Al Qaeda media propagandist. I have not yet read the 139-...
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A federal court in Washington ruled on Thursday that former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe enjoys residual immunity from being forced to testify as a witness in an Alien Tort Statute/Torture Victims Pr...
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Jonathan Hafetz, a habeas lawyer and law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law and the author of Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System, writes in with th...
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Bobby shared yesterday the news that John Brennan has announced (courtesy of Josh Gerstein at the Politico) that the Obama administration would not send terrorist suspects to Guantanamo moving forward.
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Check out this news story on yesterday's court appearance by Ahmed Warsame. I've hammered on the New York Times editorial page for repeatedly--and erroneously--saying that non-criminal detention takes pl...
