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Today's (and Yesterday's) Headlines and Commentary
Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. Read historian Ian Toll's New York Times op-ed on the "date which will live in infamy." With the conference committee trying to fin... -
The NDAA and US Citizen Detention
[UPDATE (12/9/11): See here for my updated assessment as to US citizens captured abroad.] On the day that the Senate passed its version of the NDAA, I wrote a post in the morning addressing whether the ... -
House-Senate Side-by-Side of NDAA Provisions: Part I
As the House of Representatives and the Senate head to conference on the NDAA, I thought it might be useful to analyze the similarities and differences between the counterterrorism provisions of the two ... -
The Lawfare Mobile
With many thanks to Alice Beauheim, it is an idea whose time has surely come. -
Almerfedi Cert Petition Now Available
A redacted version of the cert petition in the case of Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi is now public. -
Harvard Law Bulletin on Lawfare and the HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security
We are grateful to Katie Bacon and the rest of the crew at the Harvard Law Bulletin for this very nice piece discussing the HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security as well as Lawfare, and to Dean Minow... -
"A Problematic Terrorist Detention Bill"
Matt Waxman (who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs from 2004 to 2005) and I have written a short article for the Council on Foreign Relations expressing concern about t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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Pakistan Slips
A brief update for sports fans who follow the fierce international competition of, uh, Lawfare readership: Pakistan's brief stint on the medal podium in this admittedly obscure sport seems to have come t... -
Peter Margulies on the NDAA and Extradition
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Bahlul Counsel Surreply on Viability of Representation
The saga of whether Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul's counsel rightly represents him before the D.C. Circuit in his military commissions appeal continues. The government, you'll recall from prior cover... -
Red Cross Conference Acknowledges "Gaps" in International Humanitarian Law Governing Detention
The 31st Quadrennial Conference of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent closed on Thursday in Geneva with the adoption of a resolution inviting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
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