The other day, I linked to the first two contributions to Cato Unbound's forum, “The Snowden Files: One Year Later.” Now Carrie Cordero has added an essay, which opens: There is no

Following up on a parenthetical near the end of my last post, the 2002 Iraq AUMF states in part:  “The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessar...

The march of ISIS across Iraq (and in Syria), and the Obama administration’s scramble to react to it, and the new round of drone strikes in Pakistan, and continuing and growing Islamist terrorist threats...

A few items that caught my eye: FCC unveils new regulatory paradigm -- "In recent months, the Federal Communications Commission has quietly worked to expand its role among federal agencies charged with ...

Yesterday’s HASC Committee Hearing (video here) on the Bergdahl swap was pretty eventful.  At least two important legal issues were discussed: the legality of not notifying Congress about the swap, and t...

Among the issues separating the American understanding of international law regarding transnational non-state actor armed groups from that of the "international community" (or at least an influential and...

In the last month, the South China Sea dispute has heated up again – China has parked an oil rig off Vietnam’s coast, prompting anti-Chinese riots across Vietnam; a Vietnamese ship sank after being ramme...

Whatever the merits of the increasing reliance upon private military contractors (PMCs) for tasks that have historically been the province of the U.S. military, one of the major issues such reliance has ...

Political science graduate students Andrea Gilli (European Union Institute, Florence) and Mauro Gilli (Northwestern University, Evanston) have posted a new and provocative paper to SSRN--"The Diffusion o...

The question long has confronted policymakers, advocates, scholars, technologists, and consumers.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit handed down its decision in Allaithi v.