A few weeks ago, I linked to this amusing petition on the White House web site for the United States "to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016." The White House pro...

Further to Ben's post on Jennifer Daskal's NYT Guantanamo op-ed today, over at Opinio Juris I comment on a different part of the op-ed.  Ben refers in part to reasons Jen offers why a transfer of Guantan...

The meeting between Presidents Obama and Karzai today appears to have produced an agreement that will revive the process of shutting down U.S. detention operations in Afghanistan.  As reported in the Wal...

From the Military Commissions' website, we learn that the upcoming hearing inUnited States v. Al-Nashiri will be postponed: Pursuant to a request by defense, the military judge has rescheduled the motion...

As I discuss in my forthcoming book, International Law in the U.S. Legal System, regardless of whether customary international law has the status of self-executing federal law, it can play an important r...

This is very exciting: Shane Harris has a new blog: Dead Drop, a "blog about national security and Washington." Shane, for those readers unfamiliar with his work, is a national security features writer o...

To commemorate (if that's even the right word) the eleventh anniversary of the detention of non-citizens at Guantánamo, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras (whose work includes, among others, The Oat...

Jennifer Daskal---who is a fellow at Georgetown law these days, after serving as NSD and working for Human Rights Watch---has a genuinely brave oped in the New York Times this morning entitled "Don't Clo...

Fresh from the Guantanamo security scrub: an amended docketing order for the upcoming hearing, late this month, in United States v. Mohammed et. al.  Judge James Pohl has set forth 23 motions for argum...