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Targeting al-Awlaki and International Law
Does international law permit the US government to kill Anwar al-Awlaki? That's the question I examine in a draft article posted here (the paper is forthcoming in the Yearbook of International Humanitar... -
UK Home Secretary's Review of Counterterrorism Powers
Last week, UK Home Secretary Theresa May announced completion of a much-anticipated review of UK counterterrorism laws and policies, and a corresponding set of recommendations that to some extent call fo... -
Fourth Circuit Affirms Abu Ali's Life Sentence
As you may recall, Abu Ali originally was convicted on charges stemming from involvement with an al Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia (including a plot to assassinate the President) and lost on his appeal of th... -
Interesting Order in Hatim v. Obama
Today in Hatim v. Obama, the Guantanamo habeas merits case briefed and argued this past November, the D.C. -
The Jus ad Bellum Implications of the Potential Resignation of Yemen's President
All eyes are on Egypt for the moment, and for good reason. But let's not neglect the news out of Yemen, especially in light of its potential ramifications for future U.S. -
Speaking of New York Times Editorials...
. . . I actually agree with this one this morning, arguing that the separation of the investigative functions of the Justice Department's inspector general and its Office of Professional Responsibility i... -
New York Times Letters Policy
Lawfare readers who have followed my mini-crusade (here, here, and here, for example) to get the New York Times to stop willfully misrepresenting the legality of military detention in its editorials will... -
SCOTUS: Respondent's Brief in Ashcroft v. Al Kidd
The respondent's merits brief recently became available in Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, the case challenging whether John Ashcroft can be sued in his personal capacity for misuse of the material witness statute ... -
Former Guantanamo Detainee Convicted in Italy
A court in Milan has convicted and sentenced to six years in prison a former Guantanamo detainee originally from Tunisia, the Associated Press reports. It's another case that seems to me to beg the quest... -
New CRS Report
We just caught wind of this new CRS report on Guantanamo-related legislative actions (both enacted and proposed as of December 9th, 2010), written by Michael John Garcia. A very good survey for those in... -
SCOTUS: Petitioner reply in Al Odah v. United States
Briefing on certiorari is now complete in Al Odah v. United States. In his cert. petition, Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah urged the Supreme Court to review the D.C. Circuit's ruling that the prepo... -
More from Shelley as Egypt Pundit
Shelley had, of course, more to say about the situation in Egypt today. Most famously, he wrote the following sonnet in praise of Hosni Mubarak: Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who sai...
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