Lawfare readers, let my devotion to you never be questioned. To bring you this here summary of today's oral argument in Mahktar Al-Warafi v. Barack Obama, I have had to engage in a mortification of the f...

Tomorrow morning the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in Al Warafi v. Obama, a Guantánamo merits appeal that challenges Judge Lamberth’s March 2010 decision denying habeas relief to petitioner Mukhta...

In light of the statements released this past week by the Center for Constitutional Rights and lawyers for Awal Gul--the Guantanamo detainee who died of an apparent heart attack--the following statement,...

In other news from Guantanamo, the military has announced the death of one of the detainees: MIAMI --  Joint Task Force-Guantanamo announced today that a detainee died of apparent natural causes late Tue...

U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina has denied the habeas petition of Mashour Abdullah Mugbel Alsabri (ISN #324). We will post the opinion as soon as a declassified version is available and post updated n...

Eugene Volokh agrees with me that the New York Times editorial page is being less than candid about the legality of non-criminal detention.

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...

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...

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...

Today in Hatim v. Obama, the Guantanamo habeas merits case briefed and argued this past November, the D.C.