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In posting earlier this evening this speech by Republican Rep. Buck McKeon, the incoming chair of the House Armed Services Committee, I promised thoughts on its virtues and vices. The short version is th...
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A fascinating story in the Guardian today concerning objections within the human rights community to the ACLU/CCR lawsuit on behalf of Anwar al-Aulaki. Most notably, the story quotes a member of CCR's B...
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Republican Rep. Buck McKeon, who will chair the House Armed Services Committee in the new Congress gave a speech today at the Foreign Policy Initiative that touched on, among other things, detainee polic...
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This article in GQ has generated a fair bit of unfavorable buzz about Attorney General Eric Holder. The article is, in my judgment, rather unfair--both to Holder and to the Bush administration folks who ...
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President Bush’s new book Decision Points, and the interviews Bush has given in connection with the book, have caused some commentators from different parts of the political spec
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The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the administration's solution to the problem of how to try KSM and his buddies may be, well, not to bother:
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed m...
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Today the government made available the public version of its brief in Warafi v. Obama. Readers may recall that this case is the petitioner's appeal from Chief Judge Royce Lamberth’s March opinion denyin...
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Links and abstracts for some recent scholarship and events relating to national security law:
Audio from UVA Panel on Targeted Killing
On November 1, the Federalist Society and the J.B.
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A story on NPR's All Things Considered tonight ("Al-Qaida, Affiliates Showing Greater Coordination") conveys a claim by U.S.
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The bulk of the fighting in World War I ended in 1918 when an armistice took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month -- i.e., at 11 a.m.
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This afternoon, the Brookings Institution was honored to host Justice Stephen Breyer for a lively discussion, which I moderated, on his new book: Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View.
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I’d like to draw attention to a handful of Mexico-related items this afternoon. First, Tracy Wilkinson at the L.A. Times has a terrific piece discussing the degree of cartel control in Reynosa (across t...
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Mark Erickson, author of the Norwegian Shooter blog sent me a thoughtful note objecting to Bobby and my discussion of the D.C. Circuit's Salahi decision. I invited him to write up his thoughts as a guest...
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They say you can't tell where an appeals panel is headed based on the oral argument. Sometimes you can. I will go out on a limb on the one I attended today: I will eat my computer if the D.C. Circuit aff...
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The Al Aulaqi argument today was long—far too long for me to write a blow-by-blow account of the entire session. It went on for three hours, and I had to duck out just before it ended. Even a brief summa...
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(by Larkin Reynolds and Benjamin Wittes)
Tomorrow, D.C. Circuit Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, A. Raymond Randolph, and Stephen Williams will hear oral argument in Hatim v. Obama, a habeas merits app...
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Mike Newton (Vanderbilt) has just posted an interesting new essay, “Illustrating Illegitimate Lawfare,” which emphasizes an important distinction: between activities that might be described as “lawfare” ...
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A guest post from Professor Geoff Corn:
Last week I was fortunate to participate in an extraordinary round-table discussion on LOAC issues with Cuban IHL experts in Havana. The exchange was sponsored b...
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. . . Larkin Reynolds.
Byline-reading Lawfare devotees may have noticed over the past few days that a mysterious new name has been gracing our blog. Larkin is a legal fellow at Brookings this academic y...
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I promised I would offer thoughts on Tom Malinowski's latest missive after I had a chance to digest and reflect on it. Since then, I have been mostly digesting and reflecting on Justice Breyer's new book...
