From the invaluable Steven Aftergood over at Secrecy News: For the first time in more than a decade, the total U.S.

Last week I noted that al-Nashiri has moved for an order compelling the government to state whether it would remand him to military detention for the duration of hostilities in the event of an acquittal....

The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the convictions of several members of the group referred to in the media variously as the “Miami 7,” the “Liberty City 7,” or the “Seas of David.”  The men were convicte...

Dramatic news out of Atlanta yesterday, as federal prosecutors announced the arrest of members of a "fringe militia group" charged with conspiring to carry out an array of terrorist attacks on government...

The full Seventh Circuit has granted the government’s motion to rehear en banc Vance v. Rumsfeld, a suit by two U.S. citizens alleging that they were detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq.

From our friends at George Washington: The co-chairs of the 2012 George Washington University Law School National Security Law Moot Court Competition would like to  encourage law students from around the...

. . . how excited I am about this: a new blog by New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal. I confess, the following line from his introductory post disappoints me a little: Nor will I blog a...

Judge Walton has released his unclassified opinion in Karim Bostan (ISN 975) v. Obama, denying Bostan's habeas petition (the decisions appears to have issued in classified form on October 12th). The gove...

Five years ago today, in remarks at the London School of Economics, I provided a comprehensive public statement of the U.S. Government’s views of the international legal framework applicable to the U.S. ...