Britain amended its universal jurisdiction law last week to require private individuals who seek arrest warrants for foreign government officials for human rights offenses to obtain the consent of Britai...

On September 14, General John R. Allen, who succeeded David Petraeus as the commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, presided over the change of the command of Rule of Law Field Force – Afghanistan from Bri...

Below Gabor Rona has a sharp response to my earlier post on Charlie Savage’s story on the latest round of Johnson v.

The Keynote Address begins with a brief introduction from Jack. He notes that one thing extraordinary about Savage is his ability to extract information from government officials and the clarity with w...

Prof. David Barron kicks off the last panel discussion of the conference, focusing on the Presidency in the Post-9/11 World.  He begins by noting that it is not surprising that a serious national securit...

The afternoon session of Day 2 of the conference begins with introductory remarks from Gabby Blum, the moderator of the afternoon’s first panel.  She asks the panel to discuss the utility of force; what ...

Session 4 begins with a brief introduction of the panelists from Prof. Dick Fallon, the panel’s moderator.  Panelists include Prof.  Phil Heymman, Ben Wizner, director of litigation of the ACLU’s Nationa...

Day 2 of the HLS-Brookings Program on Law and National Security conference begins with Prof. Blum  introducing Chibli Mallat, moderator of the first panel of the morning.  He says he would like to point ...

I have little to add to Jack's excellent post yesterday about Charlie Savage's fascinating New York Times story on the latest dispute within the administration on the scope and reach of the AUMF. But I d...

An update: we've attended today's oral argument in Suleiman v. Obama, at the D.C. Circuit.  For scheduling reasons, however, we'll have to delay posting a recap of the argument until Monday.  Stay tuned ...

Here is the prepared text, released by the White House, of John Brennan's speech at the Harvard Law School-Brookings conference now under way in Cambridge. I will post video, including of the very intere...