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A Call for Reader Input: Expanding the Disposition Matrix App
Last week, my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman and I released our fun little Disposition Matrix App--on The Atlantic's web site. The rather surprising response---who knew that so many Americans were anti... -
The 2013 NDAA Signing Statement: No Better Than the 2012 Version
As Ben noted the other day, the Obama administration issued a signing statement on the new NDAA arguing that its Guantánamo detainee-transfer restrictions are unconstitutional as a violation of the separ... -
Jeh Johnson on the Rachel Maddow Show
Last night, former DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson was on the Rachel Maddow Show, discussing the war on terror, detention, and how the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, proceeded. Warning: the clip includ... -
Judicial Review for Enemy Fighters? Andrew Kent on the Quirin Case
Andrew Kent writes in with the following guest post on his fascinating new article on Ex Parte Quirin. I asked Andrew to write up this piece, after reading an earlier draft of the underlying paper for a ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
For the first Friday in January, it's quite a prolific news day. The New York Times published this editorial on the FOIA case that it and the ACLU just lost in the Southern District of New York. -
Readings: Andrew Kent on Ex Parte Quirin
Andrew Kent (Fordham University School of Law) has posted a new paper to SSRN, "Judicial Review for Enemy Fighters: The Court's Fateful Turn in Ex Parte Quirin, the Nazi Saboteur Case." (66 Vanderbilt L... -
"The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law," by Jenny Martinez
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How to Handle a Citizen Terrorist? We Have an App for That
Ever caught a U.S. citizen you suspected of terrorism, and not known what to do with him? We have an app for you. -
Anyone Want A Bridge In Brooklyn? Cheap?
If you do, perhaps you might also be willing to buy a cyber certificate from TURKTRUST.INC. TURKTRUST is a certificate authority. That means that it is authorized to issue certificates which tell you t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Maulvi Nazir, a top militant commander for the Taliban was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan today. -
On the Digging of Cyber Holes: The NextGen Air Traffic Control System
The aphorism is a commonplace – if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. I sometimes wonder if our cyber developers understand that problem. Today’s case in point is th... -
Posner and Sykes on the Economic Foundations of International Law
Eric Posner and Alan Sykes have a new book entitled Economic Foundations of International Law. The book does what its title suggests: gives a comprehensive rational choice account of public internationa...
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