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Today's Headlines and Commentary
A bomb went off in Katmandu, Nepal, killing at least three people. -
The Most Backhanded Praise I've Ever Received
I only just noticed Kevin Jon Heller's "Update" to his post slamming my post about the Rahmatullah case. -
Readings: Pir Zubair Shah, My Drone War
Journalist Pir Zubair Shah writes in the March-April 2012 issue of Foreign Policy. My Drone War: American drones have changed everything for al Qaeda and its local allies in Pakistan, becoming a fact of ... -
<I>Boumediene</I>, "Global Constitutionalism," and "Human Rights Universalism": My Response to Professor Kent
For those interested in the ongoing academic debate over the rationale and implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene, I have a new (short) piece in the Iowa Law Review Bulletin respondin... -
Soliciting Podcast Feedback
We have now had four episodes of The Lawfare Podcast. Each has been downloaded a goodly number of times, so I know that people are listening to the podcast, but I have less sense of what people think of ... -
Readings: The Royal Society Report on Neuroscience, Conflict, and Security
The technological frontiers of conflict include cyberwar, robotics, and autonomous lethal weapons. It is time to add a new one: the use of neuroscience in conflict. Whether by creating new weapons to be... -
Lies, Crimes, and United States v. Alvarez
Wednesday’s oral argument on the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act generated a flurry of anticipatory and postmortem -
Clive Walker on Rahmatullah
Clive Walker, a professor of law at the University of Leeds, responds to the following comment in my Rahmatullah post: "It’s funny how courts discover deference when they realize that they have no power ... -
Enforcing International Treaties in U.S. Courts @ OJ
There's a fun virtual symposium underway over at Opinio Juris on a new article by Oona Hathaway, Sabria McElroy, and Sara Aronchick Solow titled "International Law at Home: Enforcing Treaties in U.S. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Protests in Afghanistan over the burning of Korans by NATO soldiers saw their deadliest day today with at least 10 casualties, says the New York Times. Guess a presidential apology only goes so far. -
Extraterritorial Application of the Alien Tort Statute: "A Noble Cause That Goes Too Far"
The Kiobel case will be argued next Tuesday before the Supreme Court. I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post (headlined in the print edition "A Noble Cause That Goes Too Far") about the foreign poli... -
Might Daqduq Face a Military Commission One Day After All?
[Update: Over at Opinio Juris, John Dehn raises the interesting and important question whether it would be constitutional for a commission to convene at this point in regards to events in Iraq, given lan...
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