Raff already posted earlier about some of the amicus briefs filed today (or earlier) in the al-Bahlul case (the "other" military commission appeal currently pending in the D.C. Circuit).

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed its opening brief in its appeal of the District Court of the District of Columbia's granting of a motion for summary judgment for the Central Intelligence Age...

Two new amicus briefs have been filed in Bahlul v. United States in the D.C. Circuit Court recently. The first is a brief on behalf of international law professors (including our own Steve Vladeck). Its ...

I join Ben's praise for the Attorney General's speech. The Administration has done a good job in the speeches by Harold Koh, Jeh Johnson, John Brennan, and now the Attorney General in laying out a compr...

Here for all the world to see. We've got: The Stipulation of Fact Pre-Trial Agreement Appendix A of the Pre-Trial Agreement

Oral argument transcripts from the Supreme Court hearing this morning:  Kiobel and Mohamad.  Update: Opinio Juris is posting several posts and guest posts on the oral argument, including this one by Chim...

Journalist Pir Zubair Shah writes in the March-April 2012 issue of Foreign Policy. My Drone War: American drones have changed everything for al Qaeda and its local allies in Pakistan, becoming a fact of ...

The technological frontiers of conflict include cyberwar, robotics, and autonomous lethal weapons. It is time to add a new one: the use of neuroscience in conflict.  Whether by creating new weapons to be...

Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson is giving a speech today at the Yale Law School. The prepared text is as follows:                           Dean’s Lecture at Yale Law School     “National security...

There apparently hasn't been any press about this yet, but there's a new lawsuit filed over Rear Admiral David Woods' order last year requiring all attorney-client communications at Guantanamo to  be rev...

Back in March 2011, House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon and Ranking Minority Member Adam Smith instructed the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to examine transfers and releases of detai...

The reply brief in support of certiorari in Al-Madhwani v. Obama has been filed. We earlier posted Al Madhwani’s cert petition and the government's opposition to cert.