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Friday at the Military Commissions: Al Nashiri
Last Friday's sessions in the Al Nashiri military commission case were quick. The first came quite early in the morning to resolve an outstanding issue from Thursday's closed session: whether the defense... -
New Additions to the Lawfare Team
I'm excited to announce three new additions to Lawfare's roster of contributing editors---all of whom have written for the site before and will be familiar to our readers. Timothy H. Edgar is a visiting... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The South Korean Sentry—A “Killer Robot” to Prevent War
Editor’s Note: Autonomous weapons systems—or, as it is much more fun to call them, killer robots—are a controversial weapon of war. Critics worry that they make war more likely because they do not put so... -
The Lawfare Podcast: HASC Hearing on Outside Perspectives on the AUMF
On Thursday of this week, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to provide “Outside Perspectives on the President’... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Lawfare’s own Bobby and Ben trekked to the Hill this Thursday, to testify alongside Gen. Jack Keane before the House Armed Services Committee on the Obama administration’s AUMF. Ben testified that, while... -
Fishing Expedition
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The number of Assyrian Christians kidnapped by the Islamic State continues to rise. The New York Times reports that, according to one local Assyrian leader, 287 people have now been captured by the milit... -
Wednesday and Thursday at the Military Commissions: Al Nashiri
At the outset of Wednesday's session in the Al Nashiri military commission---the criminal proceeding against a Guantanamo detainee accused of plotting, among other things, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole... -
Call for Participants: The 8th Annual National Security Law Workshop
I’m very happy to announce the call for proposals and attendees for the 8th Annual National Security Law Workshop, which will take place in Houston on May 14th and 15th this spring. Geoff Corn and I are ... -
DoD Withdraws Order Requiring MiliComms Judges to Live at GTMO
That's the word from the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. I reckon this will mean the 9/11 case will be swiftly unpaused. From Rosenberg's piece: In an abrupt retreat Friday, the Pentagon withdrew an o... -
Consensus on the Way Forward for an ISIL AUMF
Even casual readers of this blog are likely aware of the longstanding (and thoroughly joined) debate between Ben and me with respect to how Congress ought to update / revisit the 2001 Authorization for t...
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