The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate invo...

Laurie Blank, the director of Emory Law School's IHL clinic, writes in with the following comments on Henry V and the law of armed conflict: I just saw your post about Henry V and LOAC.  The play is inde...

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I went to see a wonderful performance of Henry V this afternoon at the Folger Shakespeare Library---and I came away thinking about the law of armed conflict. I have wondered about early literary invocati...

Here it is, from Aaron Zelin of Jihadology.

Speaking of Wired Danger Room, check this out: A robotic dog that tosses cinderblocks around with its head. Spencer Ackerman explains: Flesh-and-blood dogs merely fetch. The robotic pooch that Darpa fund...

Just read this uplifting story from Wired Danger Room: Late last year, a group of 3-D printing gunsmiths developed a key component for an AR-15 rifle that anyone with a 3-D printer could download and mak...

Robot watchers likely know about the FAA’s recent solicitation of applications from entities desiring to operate one of six experimental test sites for domestic drones. Last year, Congress ordered the F...

Amidst all the hubbub earlier this week, we neglected to note the filing of a new cert. petition in a Guantánamo habeas case--in Obaydullah v. Obama, filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Our coverage o...

The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate invo...