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Today's Headlines and Commentary
On the same day that ISIS’s Chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, re-emerged in a 17-minute audio recording, the United States’ top general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. -
Why Does the AUMF Debate Even Matter?
Midday yesterday, I ran into a prominent national security reporter on the street near Brookings. The conversation quickly turned, as conversations tend to turn in our circles in Washington these days, t... -
The .IR, .KP and .SY Domains Are "Safe"
A couple of months ago, I noted an interesting law suit brought by several victims of terrorist attacks. They had secured default money judgments against Iran, North Korea and Syria for those country’s a... -
CRS Analysis of AUMF Proposals
Via Secrecy News, I see that the CRS has summarized and analyzed the seven proposals in Congress for a New AUMF. -
The Legal Consequences of Islamic State + Al Qaeda Cooperation, and Implications for AUMF Reform
Deb Riechman at AP is reporting: Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work ... -
Throwback Thursday: The Sykes-Picot Agreement
Editor's note: For quite a while now, social media enthusiasts have been using the hashtag #tbt (or, in long-form, “Throwback Thursday”) as a way to reminisce about the past. Now Lawfare has decided to g... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #42: An Interview with Orin Kerr
We share the program this week with Orin Kerr, a regular guest who knows at least as much as we do about most of these topics and who jumps in on many of them. Orin, of course, is a professor of law at ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Breaking news flooding onto our Twitter streams today: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has released a new audio recording of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, accompanied by English translation of his remarks. -
Pew Study Says Exactly What You'd Expect on Privacy
The Pew Research Internet Project has released a new public opinion study that shows exactly what you would expect the public believes about privacy, surveillance, and related matters. The study seems to... -
The U.S.-China Climate “Deal” Does Less Than Has Been Hyped
I am (as I have previously noted) no expert on climate change. But reading the text of the much-vaunted U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change makes me think there is a large gap between how th... -
DC Circuit Temporarily Stays United States' Appeal in <em>Al-Nashiri</em>, Pending Consideration of Mandamus Petition
The order grants a motion filed by Al-Nashiri, and was handed down today by Circuit Judges Cornelia Pillard and Judith Rogers, over the dissent of Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh. It's gist is temporarily ... -
Readings: Sir Adam Roberts on the Importance of History and State Practice
Twenty years ago, Adam Roberts made the following observation in his essay, "Land Warfare: From Hague to Nuremberg," in The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (1994, pp. 116-139): T...
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