Most of the legal discussion about Libya intervention has focused in recent weeks on the War Powers Resolution.  But the constitutional issue of the President’s power to order the intervention without co...

Defense Ministers from the 48 nations of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) today endorsed the NATO Rule of Law Field Support Mission (NROLFSM).  The press release describes the mission a...

Over at CAAFLOG, Dwight Sullivan has this long post on the continuing saga of Scott Horton's National Magazine Award--about which I wrote here. Sullivan is responding to this article by Dr. Jeffrey Kaye ...

I have only one point to add to Bobby's post earlier today on the opinion by Judge Royce Lamberth in the al-Hajj case. The D.C. Circuit has so far avoided addressing issues related to the voluntariness o...

Habeas lawyer David Remes sent in the following comments on recent developments in D.C. Circuit case law. He emphasizes that he has been counsel in several of the cases discussed below and that the follo...

In a 13-page opinion made public today (but dated May 23, 2011), Judge Lamberth in al-Hajj v.

Those of you who subscribe to my listserv know that I frequently circulate links and abstracts for forthcoming academic work relating to security and law.  I'm going to try cross-posting that material mo...

Writing at Foreign Policy, Charli Carpenter and Lina Shaikhouni present a series of arguments challenging the legality of the U.S. use of lethal force--whether from drones or special forces--in Pakistan....

There's been quite a bit of activity in the Guantanamo habeas courtrooms since Larkin last posted these statistics in mid-April. Last week's voluntary dismissal of Fahmi Al Assani's and Suleiman Al Nadhi...

The Washington Post has this editorial on American Al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn's recent message: THERE MAY NEVER be a better spokesman for closing the gun show loophole than Adam Yahiye Gadahn. A 32-y...

Washingtonian magazine has published this profile of former Vice President Dick Cheney's counselor, David Addington, who is now at the Heritage Foundation. The piece is devoted to a considerable extent t...

Hot on the heels of a National Security Council debate last Thursday concerning whether to reduce the pace or scope of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan (reported by the Wall Street Journal here; please do c...

Bruce Ackerman has responded on Balkinization to Trevor Morrison’s review of Ackerman’s book The Decline and Fall of the American Republic.  Ackerman’s opening paragraphs explain his post and have all th...

According to ABC News and the New York Times, House Speaker John Boehner today will call for a vote on two resolutions regarding the use of force in Libya - one sponsored by Rep. Denis Kucinich, and the ...

Two Guantanamo detainees, Fahmi Al-Assani and Suleiman Al-Nahdi, have moved the D.C. Circuit to dismiss their habeas appeals (Al-Assani's motion is here, Al-Nahdi's is here).

The two main headlines on the online NYT at the moment are about the E Coli outbreak in Germany and the alleged hack by China of Google.  I have not seen anyone speculating that the E Coli outbreak is a ...

The D.C. Circuit has denied rehearing en banc to Guantanamo detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, whose habeas case the court decided in March.

Several pieces in the news today may be of interest to Lawfare Readers. The Washington Post reports on the Pentagon's list of  critical cyber-weapons: The Pentagon has developed a list of cyber-weapo...