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A doctor in New York who recently treated Ebola patients in Guinea has contracted the disease, the New York Times reports. -
The Debate About the Extraterritorial Scope of the Torture Convention’s Provisions on Cruelty is (Almost Certainly) Not About USG Interrogation Policy
A week ago Charlie Savage reported that the Obama administration “is considering reaffirming the Bush administration’s position that the [Convention Against Torture(CAT)] imposes no legal obligation on t... -
Look Who Else Has Drones: ISIS and Al Nusra
Since the introduction of drone technology to the battlefield, countless academics, policymakers, and military planners have pondered a disturbing question: what happens when other countries or non-state... -
On the Legal Reforms that Will, and Will Not, Come from the Fourth Plenum
The Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress kicked off two days ago in Beijing. -
Al Qaeda Has Set its Sights on Xinjiang---and China Isn't Happy About It
If you don’t follow the jihadi social media scene, you may not know that the first issue of Al Qaeda’s online English-language magazine, Resurgence, has just hit webstands across the terrorist world. For... -
President Obama Is Right
President Obama is right. He was right when he said, as a presidential candidate in 2007, that “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a ... -
Russian Bagram Detainee Set for Federal Prosecution in U.S.
Or so I gather from this Washington Post piece, which opens thusly: A Russian captured fighting with insurgents in Afghanistan and held for years at a detention facility near Bagram air base will be flow... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In Ottawa yesterday, a gunman “shot and killed a soldier,” Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, before entering Canada’s Parliament building, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with MPs. In a firefight that... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #39: An Interview with Tom Finan
Our guest today is Tom Finan, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist and Counsel at DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), where he is currently working on policy issues related to cybersecu... -
Evidence of Absence: A Brief Reply to Peter Margulies on the <em>al Bahlul</em> Argument
In light of both our prior exchange and my Just Security post from yesterday, I only have two new points to make in response to Peter Margulies' post on yesterday's D.C. -
The <em>Al Bahlul</em> Argument: Article III, Conspiracy, and Precepts of International Law
Some may wish that Ex Parte Quirin, the Supreme Court’s case upholding the military commission convictions of Nazi saboteurs would recede into history. However, as Steve has noted, the oral argument in ... -
Oral Argument in <em>Al Bahlul</em>: Judge Tatel and <em>Quirin</em> Dicta
Much could be said about this morning’s argument, before a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, in the long-running military commission case of Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul v. United States.
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