Latest in Highlights
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With 
-
Duke University Law School’s Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS) Conference
Duke Law School held its annual LENS conference over the weekend. Its theme this year was “Battlefields, Boardrooms, and Backyards: The New Face of National Security Law.” Here is the conference program,... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let’s begin with Afghanistan news. Amie Ferris-Rotman of Reuters reports that, this summer, NATO will announce the size of the training force that will remain in Afghanistan after most troops leave in 20... -
House Committee Jurisdiction and CISPA
Last year, the House Intelligence Committee passed out a bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that eventually was adopted with bipartisan support in the House of Representative... -
Lawsuit against NYPD by Members of Muslim Community
Last June, a collection of advocacy and religious organizations, businesses, and individuals in New York City and New Jersey filed a federal lawsuit against the City of New York, alleging the New York Ci... -
The Capture-or-Kill Debate #8: Kevin Heller Joins the Conversation
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 up t... -
Habeas, Due Process, and... Extradition?
One of the more interesting structural constitutional questions to emerge from the post-9/11 detention litigation has been the previously under-explored relationship between the Constitution's Suspension... -
New Trouble @ Guantánamo: Counsel Letter re: the Camp 6 Hunger Strike
Via the Center for Constitutional Rights comes news of this alarming development--"that most of the men at Guantánamo have been on hunger strike for more than three weeks," apparently in response to a se... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Over the weekend some media reported that AQIM bad guy Mohktar Belmokhtar had been killed in northern Mali. But military leaders won’t confirm the terrorist's death, according to Adam Nossiter of the Ne... -
Brief for the United States in Al-Janko
The United States has filed its appellate brief in the case of Al-Janko v. -
The Capture-or-Kill Debate #7: Goodman Responds
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 on Shakespeare and the Law of Armed Conflict
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... -
Video of February 27 House Judiciary Committee Drone Hearing
Now embeddable---at long last:
Topics
