The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate up t...

One of the more interesting structural constitutional questions to emerge from the post-9/11 detention litigation has been the previously under-explored relationship between the Constitution's Suspension...

Via the Center for Constitutional Rights comes news of this alarming development--"that most of the men at Guantánamo have been on hunger strike for more than three weeks," apparently in response to a se...

The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate invo...

Laurie Blank, the director of Emory Law School's IHL clinic, writes in with the following comments on Henry V and the law of armed conflict: I just saw your post about Henry V and LOAC.  The play is inde...

Now embeddable---at long last:

I went to see a wonderful performance of Henry V this afternoon at the Folger Shakespeare Library---and I came away thinking about the law of armed conflict. I have wondered about early literary invocati...

Here it is, from Aaron Zelin of Jihadology.

Speaking of Wired Danger Room, check this out: A robotic dog that tosses cinderblocks around with its head. Spencer Ackerman explains: Flesh-and-blood dogs merely fetch. The robotic pooch that Darpa fund...