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Gabriella Blum's Chair Lecture
Professor Gabriella Blum of Harvard Law School gave a fascinating lecture on Tuesday entitled "The Fog of Victory" on the occasion of her appointment as the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and H... -
Nashiri Motions Hearing #18: Getting Another Investigator
You probably have been saying to yourself, all morning and afternoon, “when will we ever hear argument on motion AE40, the defense’s request to compel funding for a Yemeni defense investigator?” Your wa... -
Nashiri Motions Hearing #17: Give it to Me in Arabic
Lunch ends, and we return to argue over AE 038 - or, as better known to docket-watchers, the defense’s motion to compel the timely translation of discovery into Arabic. Reyes begins by informing the cour... -
Nashiri Motions #16: Wherein Judge Pohl Loses His Cool
Continuing with his discovery blitz, Judge Pohl turns next to AE 044, a defense motion to compel the production of unredacted classified discovery. Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes argues for the defense that th... -
Nashiri Motions Hearing #15: Going Rogatory
Judge Pohl calls the commission back to order at 11:00 am to discuss AE 054 and AE 057--two motions to compel discovery from potential witnesses in Yemen and the U.A.E. At the in-chambers conference, Ju... -
Nashiri Motions #14: We'd Like Some More Time to File, and To Have Some More CIPA-esque Fun
Having lost the reconsideration motion, the defense then marches onward - nominally, to the defense’s next motion, AE42, its request to extend deadlines to submit a defense theory of the case under MCRE ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A light (but interesting) news day. Wired's David Kravets reports on a potential snag in the prosecution's strategy against Bradley Manning. -
Nashiri Motions Hear #13: Wherein the Court Goes Down a CIPA Rabbit Hole
The court next turns to the issue, which it heard a couple of months ago, of whether it has the authority to hear a defense motion to reconsider any decision to accept Rule 505 evidence substitutions. Th... -
Nashiri Motions Hearing #12: A Preliminary
The hearing begins again at 9:18. Judge Pohl enters and announces that he has held a meeting in chambers with counsel to discuss letters rogatory, which he will discuss on the record later. The other iss... -
<i>Nashiri</i>, Conspiracy, and the Ex Post Facto Problem
Notwithstanding the Lawfare love-in, I'm a bit troubled by one of the threads that appeared to emerge from the argument in Nashiri over whether conspiracy is a recognized violation of the laws of war. B... -
Can the Military Court-Martial Civilian Contractors?: Reflections on the Oral Argument in <i>United States v. Ali</i>
Pardon the interruption from the wall-to-wall Nashiri coverage, but before it disappears too far into the past, I wanted to flag United States v. Ali--a case in which the Court of Appeals for the Armed F... -
Nashiri Motions Hearing #11: Mark Martins Statement
Brig. General Mark Martins released the following statement after today's hearings: Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins Remarks at Guantanamo Bay on 11 April 2012
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