Will Polish judges have the occasion to weigh in on the legality of non-criminal detention of asserted al Qaeda members?  Probably so.  It appears that Polish prosecutors have brought charges against the...

In case you didn't already know this with all of the attention it's getting, this year is the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the War of 1812. Our Brookings colleague, Pietro Nivola, and our friend...

The 28-page opinion in United States v. Stone, (E.D. Mich. Mar.

It's not every day that one of Ritika's Moments of Zen files a lawsuit.

Amanda Jacobsen, a lawyer for Abu Zubaydah, has this oped in the Washington Post complaining that her client--and the government officials responsible for his detention and interrogation--have never face...

The former counterterrorism czar reaches this conclusion because the operation had lawyers’ fingerprints on it.  From an interview with Ron Rosenbaum in Smithsonian Magazine: “I think it’s pretty clear t...

An interesting development in the military commission case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four alleged September 11 co-conspirators: The government has added charges of intentionally causing seri...

Last week, we brought you the first sets of filings in Moath Hamza Ahmed Al Alwi's petition for a writ of certiorari.

Comparing the role of the Supreme Court in the health care debate and the national security debate, Orin Kerr writes at Volokh Conspiracy: If the Court does end up striking down the mandate, this will be...

In Law and the Long War, Ben described a cyclical process in which civil liberties and human rights NGOs would criticize the Bush administration’s detention standards and policies on GTMO, the Bush admin...

Representatives Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) have introduced a companion cybersecurity bill in the House of Representatives that is said to be identical to the McCain Senate proposal.