The American Society of International Law has released a new "ASIL Insight" on law applicable to autonomous weapon systems.  (ASIL Insights are short, descriptive pieces on topical issues meant as non-te...

We end the evening with this procedural nugget from Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal: in Hamdan II, the deadline for the United States to seek en banc review from the D.C. Circuit, or a writ of cer...

CNN is reporting that TSA has announced the removal of all Rapiscan X-ray backscatter airport machines, to be accom

As Wells noted, the Guantánamo Military Commission Convening Authority has declined to adopt Chief Prosecutor Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's recommendation to withdraw the conspiracy charges against Khalid Sh...

What is the United States actually doing so far, and what else reportedly is on the table? 1. So far we have agreed to provide airlift support to the French, on their dime.  That is, France is going to p...

Whoa. Remember the Chief Prosecutor's tactical recommendation to pull standalone conspiracy charges in the 9/11 case---in light of the D.C.

I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post entitled (in the print edition) "Aiding Syria: Easier said than done" in which I describe some of the international legal obstacles to intervening in Syria.   H...

Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in from The Hague with the following account of the Boundaries of the Battlefield symposium he has been attending there: Although some members of Co...

Remember that order, in which the military judge denied a defense request to presume the Constitution's application in the 9/11 case?   The ruling wasn't available earlier---it hadn't yet cleared securit...