In his response earlier this week, Jens Iverson correctly points out that the Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits states parties from “retain[ing]” chemical weapons.  And states do, of course, keep the...

Today's Wall Street Journal carries an op-ed piece by Matt and me on the regulation of autonomous weapon systems, "Killer Robots and the Laws of War: Autonomous Weapons Are Coming and Can Save Lives.

Reasonable people can disagree about NSA surveillance in general and about whether Congress should authorize or forbid bulk metadata collection in particular. I have never questioned the good faith of Se...

Published by Nation Books (2013) Reviewed by Nick Basciano

Raffaela's piece this morning offers a granular breakdown of what the major FISA reform proposals would do across a number of different axes. In reading both it and the bills it describes, I had four bri...

Edward Snowden's disclosures and subsequent government declassifications have prompted a wave of proposals to retool the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). Some of these proposed revisions a...

A few days ago, I posted a response to David Cole's Just Security post that had argued for U.S. law protecting the privacy of foreigners abroad.

A coda to Bobby's post below asking about the legal views underlying US operations in Somalia over the past three weeks.  Three weeks ago, SEALs attempted a capture operation against a target on the coas...