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One of the great things about working at the Brookings Institution---and there are many of them---is access to a remarkable range of people knowledgable about whatever happens to be going on in the world...
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On Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced his version of the FISA reform bill. Wells brought us the news. Jodie and Ben then summarized the bill, including its major provisions...
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The podcast DecodeDC has a new episode out on the question of the future of the AUMF. It's largely a pair of interviews with Jennifer Daskal and me. A good introduction to the subject, in my opinion.
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Today the D.C. Circuit handed down its decision in the "counsel access" case, upholding the constitutionality of security procedures instituted at Guantanamo in 2012 and 2013.
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Cornell University law professor Jens Ohlin is one of the most intellectually interesting scholars on international criminal law around--trained in philosophy as well as law, doctrinally learned, and som...
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Laurie Blank (Emory University Law School professor, director of its law of armed conflict clinic and, of course, well known to many Lawfare readers as a prominent scholar of LOAC) has an opinion column ...
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The New York Times reports that the 72-hour Gaza cease-fire negotiated by the United States and United Nations collapsed less than two hours after going into effect this morning (05:00 GMT); Israel says ...
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Here is the panel's opinion in Hatim v. Obama, which opens:
GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge: Guantanamo Bay detainees challenge two new policies they claim place an undue burden on their ability to meet with the...
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I have largely refrained, until now, from wading into the dispute between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA over the mutual hacking allegations, on the theory that the facts were all conteste...
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This is rank, arguably irresponsible, speculation. I have had no---that is to say zero---conversations with anyone who knows anything about Snowden's status in Russia. I can thus offer no particularly go...
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Today, McClatchy brings us breaking news on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). An internal CIA review concluded that, yes, CIA personnel improperly accessed computers used by staffers on the Sen...
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Orin’s post from yesterday afternoon wonders whether the Leahy bill’s provision for “certification” of decisions by the FISA Court to the FISA Court of Review (and from there to the Supreme Court) violat...
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Asser Press has just published a book entitled, Applying International Humanitarian Law in Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Bodies (Derek Jinks, Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto & Solon Solomon, eds.).
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From the ITAR/TASS news---if you can call it that---agency:
MOSCOW, July 31. /ITAR-TASS/.
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Yesterday evening, Jodie Liu and I summarized Sen. Leahy's new FISA reform bill---which represents a legislative compromise between many of the major stakeholders in the NSA debate. One question we did n...
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Even the vaunted Israelis. "A Chinese hacking team previously accused of being behind raids against US defence contractors has been accused of a new data heist: plundering the tech behind Israel's Iron D...
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A month ago, we wrote about an effort by several plaintiff's lawyers, representing terrorist victims, to seize the Iran domain name (.IR). Turns out there was even more to it than we were aware of at th...
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I haven't waded much into the details of the various FISA reform proposals, but I find myself puzzled by the appellate review mechanism in the new Leahy bill on FISA reform.
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Below you'll find a compilation of public statements on Senator Patrick Leahy's new and improved USA Freedom Act, which he unveiled yesterday.
Suffice it to say: the reviews are generally positive, giv...
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This morning, about a week after the bombing of a U.N.-run school in Beit Hanoun in Gaza, shells hit another U.N. Gaza refugee camp---this time in Jabaliya. The New York Times shares that at least 20 peo...
