Yesterday, plaintiffs in Hedges v.

The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security has released audio recordings of its recent conference in Washington.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has a chapter in this new book, entitled "The Future of Preventive Detention Under International Law" (see pp. 257-266). The larger bo...

For those who have been following the ITU's conference in Dubai on international internet governance (about which both Jack and I have written previously), this interesting bit of news:  Apparently the m...

Done with security review: four recent orders from the military judge, James Pohl, in United States v.

Looks like the D.C. Circuit is going to get another crack at Bagram jurisdiction. Maqaleh II, decided by the district court in mid-October, is headed up. Good luck with that!

Last weekend I linked to a Sunday Times story by a usually reliable reporter, Christina Lamb, to the effect that the USG “is launching a covert operation to send weapons to Syrian rebels.”  Today’s FT, h...

It's a rather useful, CRS-like report, entitled "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones): An Introduction." It opens: This note provides an introduction to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by the UK ...

That is the title of Eric Posner’s essay in Slate reacting to Jeh Johnson’s Oxford speech.   The first part of the piece roughly tracks some of the points I made last week, but then Eric widens the lens:...

This Lawfare post serves as a running list of links to articles, documents, or other materials related to the regulation and legal review of autonomous weapons systems (or increasingly automated weapons ...

This was certainly not the response I was expecting to my earlier post on targeted killing and assassination: a meditation on bankruptcy.