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As the recent decisions by the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) in the Guantánamo military commission ACLU/media access cases suggests, there are a host of complicated and heretofore unresolved...
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Bad news from Farah, Afghanistan, where a deadly insurgent attack killed at least 44 and wounded more than 100. Nine Taliban fighters dressed as Afghan soldiers stormed a government compound, and a firef...
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Every year I try to draw particular attention to this terrific event, and for good reason: it is a wonderful occasion to take a deep dive into an array of topics that will interest any member of the lis...
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Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal, the author of the recent book, The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, has posted the following statement on the Facebook page associated with his new ...
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Seven years of negotiations yesterday came to a close, when the U.N.
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Those who follow the blog will know that I am skeptical of the government's ability to construct a regulatory system for enhancing cybersecurity standards. I am often asked, however: "well, then what do...
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Brian Foster of Covington & Burling, who represents several Guantanamo detainees, writes in with the following comments on my defense of CIA lawyer Jonathan Fredman---and the case of his former client, A...
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Jens David Ohlin (Cornell) has an interesting post up at LieberCode in which he discusses a range of LOAC issues raised by CIA involvement in drone strikes. Jens raises the question whether CIA personne...
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See this letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Lietzau, on behalf of Secretary Hagel...
At bottom, it seems increasingly clear that there are two very different accounts out there about what...
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Last week I noted that the House Judiciary Committee was circulating a proposal to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that was mostly a wish list for the Department of Justice. Yesterday a diverse...
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The number of hungry detainees at Guantanamo Bay has, unfortunately, grown to 39. Peter Finn and Julie Tate of the Washington Post have more about the situation and the detainees’ qualms that led to the ...
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Congratulations to Lawfare's very own Steve Vladeck who, in his day job as professor and associate dean for scholarship at Washington College of Law, American University, has just been awarded the 2013 "...
