Thursday’s open session of the trial of five men accused of plotting 9/11 begins with a testy exchange between Judge Pohl and and one of the accused, Walid Bin Attash, who refuses several instructions to...

We have a new piece in The Washington Quarterly, titled “The Legal Legacy of Light-Footprint Warfare.” President Obama’s approach to military intervention has generally emphasized stealthy and often long...

Earlier today I wrote the following tweets, collected here in one place, in reaction to the DNC hack. 1/ In assessing the DNC hack, remember that USG is no innocent when it comes to infiltrating foreig...

Last Friday, the Department of Defense released an update to the 2015 Law of War Manual. According to Charlie Savage of the New York Times, the changes mainly center on the section related to the treatme...

At Slate I have a discussion about the DNC hack with Isaac Chotiner. A flavor: Is the election aspect of this hack unique?

Here’s an idea for a marriage of man and institution: Take a man who openly advocates criminal activity by American forces, who promises retaliation against his political enemies and against media that c...

As a matter of established legal precedent, the police can compel someone to provide their fingerprint onto a fingerprint reader. Equally well-established is that exigent circumstances—including "the nee...

Over the weekend, there was a crescendo of reports regarding how Russia may be attempting to influence the US presidential election. Jack provided analysis this morning, including links to several of tho...

Potentially unpleasant news for Jim Comey: We need you to intervene in the 2016 election again.