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On Monday, the Ninth Circuit heard argument in Hamad v. Gates and Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, two civil cases involving Guantanamo.
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Apropos of Jack's post: here's the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill for 2014.
Among many, many other things, the draft legislation requires the Secretary of Defense to notify c...
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One point of common ground in the debate at Lawfare over the continued viability of the AUMF (at least among Bobby and Matthew, Jen and Steve, and me – not sure about Ben) is that Congress should engage ...
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The House is taking a crack at revising post-9/11 counterterrorism legislation. One proposal would mandate information sharing with Congress for kill/capture operations.
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Last year, I posted this remarkable set of slides from the Chinese presentation at the MILOPS conference in Singapore, slides entitled "China has indisputable sovereignty over the islands in the South Ch...
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After over three years of pretrial and motions hearings, Pfc. Bradley Manning’s court martial begins today at Ft. Meade, report Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post. Manning faces 22 cha...
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Monday finds me in Bangkok---jetlagged and exhausted---at the 26th annual International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference, which is convened every year by U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM). I do...
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The following guest post is from Professor Geoffrey Corn (South Texas College of Law), in response to a post in which I raised the possibility that, in light of the non-battlefield targeting standards ar...
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Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and other bad stuff has issued a statement reiterating his call for a "moratorium" on the use of lethal autonomous robots.
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Hearing few objections (and indeed many expressions of support!), I forge ahead with Lawfare's newest feature: the Week That Was.
The week's big news was that President Obama plans to nominate James Com...
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Let’s begin with some good news about terrorists for a change.
Mansour J.
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In light of Jim Comey's reported selection as FBI director, this 2005 speech---published later in the Green Bag---is a matter of inherent interest. It's one of the things I'll be reading over the next fe...
