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On Palestine's Decision to "Hold Off" on Referring the Situation in Palestine to the ICC
Yesterday there was a small ceremony at the International Criminal Court to mark Palestine becoming the 123rd State Party to the Rome Statute. For all the attention this event received, what might ultim... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Al-Qaeda militants seized al Mukallah prison in southeastern Yemen this morning, and in doing so, freed a number of inmates. Reports conflict as to how many prisoners escaped. BBC News reports 150; CNN s... -
Entertainment IS Critical Infrastructure -- Who Knew?
I stand corrected. Yesterday, in my post about the new cyber-sanctions EO I made the point that it wouldn't apply to the Sony hack because Sony was not critical infrastructure. I was wrong, as several... -
An Apparently Real Paintball Drone
Yesterday, I was up at Harvard Law School on a panel with Gabriella Blum talking about our new book: The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat. -
The Security Council Should Ask the ICC to Investigate the Islamic State
I have an op-ed in the International New York Times today entitled “Make ISIS’ Leaders Face Justice” in which I argue that the UN Security Council should refer the Islamic State to the International Crim... -
"A Necessary, If Still Unpalatable, Potential Ally in Combating the Islamic State"
Remember these words the next time the New York Times runs a pious editorial decrying---with a spurious combination of selective facts and distorted law---some morally complicated aspect of U.S. -
A Worry About the New Executive Order on Sanctions for Malicious Cyber Activity
As Paul Rosenzweig noted earlier today in Lawfare, the President just signed out an Executive Order that can result in the imposition of financial sanctions on a variety of bad actors that ply their trad... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Last night’s deadline for a political agreement on Iran’s nuclear program came and went with no news of a deal. Talks, however, continue. The Hill reports that, according to a State Department spokeswoma... -
Executive Order on Cyber Sanctions
President Obama has, today, issued an executive order entitled, "Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities." On first glance it looks like a str... -
The Bergdahl Roadmap to Unilateral Presidential Closure of GTMO
We have not paid enough attention to the significance of the administration’s legal argument in support of the Bergdahl trade for President Obama’s goal of closing GTMO. The Article II logic in the admi... -
On the 2014 Gaza War Assessment
The recent “2014 Gaza War Assessment: The New Face of Conflict” deserves careful reading and consideration by all LOAC scholars and practitioners. The report was written by five richly experienced retir... -
The Zero Dark Thirtieth Birthday Cake
From the baker of hard national security choices, who once brought you the "drone strike cake"---called "notorious" by Rolling Stone magazine---it's the Zero Dark Thirtieth Birthday Cake:
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