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 ...

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...

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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...

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...

Told you so. President Obama has signed this year's NDAA--along with a meek kind of signing (whining?) statement. Here is the statement's discussion of the detention-related provisions--an account of whi...

As Raffaela posted earlier, the government has won a substantial victory in the FOIA litigation in which the Times and the ACLU sought disclosure of information about CIA drone strikes, including the leg...