Nico Martinez, a Lawfare reader and 3L at Stanford Law School, wrote in to flag two pieces he authored this year: the first about Judge William Young's proposal to try KSM and his coconspirators at Guant...

Some good news from the judiciary: yesterday my former professor, Scott Silliman, was sworn in as a judge on the United States Court of Military Commission Review. Congratulations, Judge Silliman!

This afternoon, Judge Alexander Williams of the District Court in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction against implementation of Section 11 of the STOCK Act, which would require publication of the fi...

An attorney who was deeply involved in the Al Bihani litigation sent me the following note about my post on the Hedges decision:

Like Jack, I was struck by the Defense Science Board’s report on the autonomy of military systems, but it was a different aspect of the report that caught my eye – enough so that I thought it was worth n...

There are a lot of questions one could ask about yesterday’s order in Hedges, to put it mildly.  I’ll limit myself to this one: exactly what is the scope of Judge Forrest’s permanent injunction?  (Steve ...

I don't have a lot to add to Ben's analysis of Judge Forrest's decision yesterday in Hedges v.

I have now read through Judge Forrest's opinion in Hedges---all 112 pages of it. I have done so only briskly, and I have surely missed things in my haste. But here are some initial thoughts. The opinion...

I have spent a lot of time publishing other people's statements on the death of Adnan Latif over the past couple of days and have refrained from expressing my own views---in part because I have been gath...

I will offer my own thoughts on the death of Adnan Latif later on, but several people have sent me comments on the subject that I am going to post first. Rather than do this in a string posts, I’m going ...