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The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month: Honoring Veterans Day
The bulk of the fighting in World War I ended in 1918 when an armistice took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month -- i.e., at 11 a.m. -
Justice Breyer on Korematsu and the Guantanamo Cases
This afternoon, the Brookings Institution was honored to host Justice Stephen Breyer for a lively discussion, which I moderated, on his new book: Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View. -
Insurgency as a Relevant Lens for Cartel Violence in Mexico
I’d like to draw attention to a handful of Mexico-related items this afternoon. First, Tracy Wilkinson at the L.A. Times has a terrific piece discussing the degree of cartel control in Reynosa (across t... -
Reader Response on Salahi
Mark Erickson, author of the Norwegian Shooter blog sent me a thoughtful note objecting to Bobby and my discussion of the D.C. Circuit's Salahi decision. I invited him to write up his thoughts as a guest... -
Notes from the Hatim Oral Argument
They say you can't tell where an appeals panel is headed based on the oral argument. Sometimes you can. I will go out on a limb on the one I attended today: I will eat my computer if the D.C. Circuit aff... -
Notes from the Al Aulaqi Argument
The Al Aulaqi argument today was long—far too long for me to write a blow-by-blow account of the entire session. It went on for three hours, and I had to duck out just before it ended. Even a brief summa... -
Argument Preview: Hatim v. Obama
(by Larkin Reynolds and Benjamin Wittes) Tomorrow, D.C. Circuit Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, A. Raymond Randolph, and Stephen Williams will hear oral argument in Hatim v. Obama, a habeas merits app... -
Newton on the Distinction Between Legitimate and Illegitimate "Lawfare"
Mike Newton (Vanderbilt) has just posted an interesting new essay, “Illustrating Illegitimate Lawfare,” which emphasizes an important distinction: between activities that might be described as “lawfare” ... -
Our Man in Havana: Geoff Corn on the Cuban Perspective on IHL
A guest post from Professor Geoff Corn: Last week I was fortunate to participate in an extraordinary round-table discussion on LOAC issues with Cuban IHL experts in Havana. The exchange was sponsored b... -
Introducing, Drum-Roll Please...
. . . Larkin Reynolds. Byline-reading Lawfare devotees may have noticed over the past few days that a mysterious new name has been gracing our blog. Larkin is a legal fellow at Brookings this academic y... -
Reflections on Malinowski's Clarification
I promised I would offer thoughts on Tom Malinowski's latest missive after I had a chance to digest and reflect on it. Since then, I have been mostly digesting and reflecting on Justice Breyer's new book... -
Obama's New Executive Order on CUI
On Thursday, the White House issued a new executive order to establish a uniform policy for government treatment of “controlled unclassified information” (CUI).
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