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Today's Headlines and Commentary
For the first Friday in January, it's quite a prolific news day. The New York Times published this editorial on the FOIA case that it and the ACLU just lost in the Southern District of New York. -
Readings: Andrew Kent on Ex Parte Quirin
Andrew Kent (Fordham University School of Law) has posted a new paper to SSRN, "Judicial Review for Enemy Fighters: The Court's Fateful Turn in Ex Parte Quirin, the Nazi Saboteur Case." (66 Vanderbilt L... -
"The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law," by Jenny Martinez
Published by Oxford USA (2012) Reviewed by John Harrison -
How to Handle a Citizen Terrorist? We Have an App for That
Ever caught a U.S. citizen you suspected of terrorism, and not known what to do with him? We have an app for you. -
Anyone Want A Bridge In Brooklyn? Cheap?
If you do, perhaps you might also be willing to buy a cyber certificate from TURKTRUST.INC. TURKTRUST is a certificate authority. That means that it is authorized to issue certificates which tell you t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Maulvi Nazir, a top militant commander for the Taliban was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan today. -
On the Digging of Cyber Holes: The NextGen Air Traffic Control System
The aphorism is a commonplace – if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. I sometimes wonder if our cyber developers understand that problem. Today’s case in point is th... -
Posner and Sykes on the Economic Foundations of International Law
Eric Posner and Alan Sykes have a new book entitled Economic Foundations of International Law. The book does what its title suggests: gives a comprehensive rational choice account of public internationa... -
President Obama Signs the NDAA 2013
Told you so. President Obama has signed this year's NDAA--along with a meek kind of signing (whining?) statement. Here is the statement's discussion of the detention-related provisions--an account of whi... -
National Security-Related Panels at this Weekend's AALS Conference
It’s that time of year…time for my annual round-up of national security-related offerings at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, which occurs in New Orleans this coming weekend... -
Treason, Murder, and Dicta: Judge McMahon on Drone Strikes
As Raffaela posted earlier, the government has won a substantial victory in the FOIA litigation in which the Times and the ACLU sought disclosure of information about CIA drone strikes, including the leg... -
Summary Judgment for the Government in Targeted Killing FOIA Request
Judge Colleen McMahon of the District Court of the Southern District of New York has granted summary judgment to the government in the consolidated FOIA cases brought by the New York Times and the ACLU. ...
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