The Supreme Court just released -- only seven weeks after oral argument -- its decision in Mohamad v.

Today the Supreme Court issued cert. determinations in two of the several Guantanamo-related petitions that have been filed this term.  The Court denied both petitions, declining to hear either Abdah v.

I hope you aren't too sick of reading about Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammad Abdu Al Nashiri, 'cuz there's more. No, this isn't from his military commission case.

Professor Gabriella Blum of Harvard Law School gave a fascinating lecture on Tuesday entitled "The Fog of Victory" on the occasion of her appointment as the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and H...

The Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) reports that Gen. John R.

Yesterday we mentioned that a suit had been filed in the Southern District of New York by a number of commentators and public figures, arguing that the NDAA's detention provisions will apply to them in t...

My confreres at Opinio Juris tell me that Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the State Department, has given OJ the text of his address on Syria at the on-going annual meetings of the American Society of Inter...

John Rizzo, formerly acting General Counsel to the CIA (and now a visiting fellow of the Hoover Institution, where he is working on a memoir) has a short piece on the practicalities of the reporting regi...

The New York Times has an interesting story today about a police report summarizing interviews of Amal Ahmad Abdul Fateh, one of Osama Bin Laden's wives, who was living with him in the Abbottabad compoun...

Two new amicus briefs concerning the petition for a writ of certiorari in Latif. The first is on behalf of thirteen retired federal judges, who offer four main arguments:

The government filed its opposition to cert in the case of Moath Hamza Ahmed Al Alwi--a Guantanamo habeas petitioner. Al Alwi filed a petition for a writ of certiorari back in December, though we missed ...

Another amicus brief has been filed in the D.C. Circuit appeal of the military commission of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, this time by former members of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Arguing on ...