Among other things, the story describes the defendant's interrogation, Sunday, pursuant to Miranda's public safety exception: BOSTON — Lying grievously wounded in a hospital bed, the surviving suspect i...

I suppose this was inevitable: A Twitter hashtag has developed devoted to the proposition that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is innocent: #Freejahar, for those curious to check it out. Spencer Ackerman describes it ...

Can the targeted killing program be reformed?  That will be the topic of discussion today at 4pm EST, as the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights h...

Lawfare's crack team of contributors has been busy invading The Huffington Post. Hot on the heels of Susan and Ritika's excellent backgrounder on Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan, I've posted an article arguing t...

A few Lawfare readers have wondered why, given the past attention we have paid on this blog to the Alien Tort Statute, none of us have had anything to say about last week’s landmark decision in Kiobel.  ...

While the manhunt for one of the Boston bombing suspects was underway Friday, Susan and I wrote up this short annotated bibliography linking to pertinent resources about the conflicts in Chechnya and Kyr...

The Miranda issue is over.  As Wells noted earlier, Tsarnaev made his initial appearance before a magistrate judge, at the hospital, and at that time the judge informed Tsarnaev of his right to remain si...

Einstein 3 is the Federal Government's expanded system for protecting Federal cyber networks through the inspection of all traffic heading to Federal networks.  It is both an intrusion detection and an i...

There will be no shortage of charges in the indictment that will issue against Tsarnaev shortly.  Many if not most will be ordinary violent-crime charges rather than terrorism-specific ones--though they'...