No sooner had I posted my comment on Monday about the DC Circuit’s Alien Tort Statute decision in the ExxonMobil case than the Seventh Circuit issued its own decision on the question of corporate ATS lia...

In the aftermath of Harold Koh's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a few weeks ago, Senator Lugar sent a set of QFRs (Questions for the Record) that raised a number of interesting q...

Marty Lederman has a terrific post exploring in more detail the First Amendment issues raised by the Begolly indictment.  It's a must-read if you are interested in the prospects for prosecuting those who...

A while back Ben posted about the pressing need for “radical transparency” in the military commissions process. It’s time to say it again:  The Pentagon must make it much easier for outsiders to follow t...

The armed conflict in Libya began as a non-international armed conflict, but was internationalized when a host of states intervened against the Libyan government.  Now, the United States has joined a gro...

The Washington Post is reporting: The U.S.

I want to pile on to Ben's post in defense of NCTC nominee Matt Olsen.  Ben notes that some are intimating that Matt somehow is soft on terrorism because the GTMO Review Task Force concluded that some ex...

An important and interesting indictment issued today (see here for the pdf), in the Eastern District of Virginia. Emerson Begolly, an American citizen from Pennsyvlania (who already was under arrest aft...

I was afraid that the nomination of Matthew Olsen to head NCTC would head in this direction.

Thomas Barnett has an interesting post at Battleland playing off Thom Shanker's piece in the Times today regarding biometrics and security in Afghanistan.  Barnett's point: such measures are more likely ...