The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has has just stayed Judge Katherine Forrest's decision in Hedges: For the following reasons, we conclude that the public interest weighs in favor of granting the gover...

Last Friday, in an interview, Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted that she never, ever used email.  The Internet cognoscenti are shocked.  They think it either means that she knows that the Internet is n...

The D.C. Circuit has handed down procedural orders in two Guantanamo detention cases. The first grants a joint motion regarding Friday's oral argument in Khairkhwa v. Obama.  The argument session will b...

Now this is interesting: an amicus brief by retired military admirals and generals, on behalf of the appellant in Nashiri v.

Anyone following these issues closely or interested in Harold Koh's address last month on international law and cyberattacks should read Adam Segal's commentary on China's view of the issues.  Adam discu...

The Kiobel v.

This article in the Wall Street Journal, by Julian Barnes and Siobhan Gorman, draws attention to US government plans to ramp up counterterrorism efforts in Libya, including in particular efforts targetin...

Earlier this week, Judge James Pohl issued a new docketing order in U.S. v. Mohammed et al.    Some twenty-five motions will be under consideration at the commission's next session, which will commence o...

The question of when an armed conflict is underway for purposes of triggering the Geneva Conventions and other relevant law of war is not in principle difficult in the case inter-state international arme...