More than two years ago, in my book Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, I wrote the following paragraph about the value of habeas review to innocent detainees: Indeed, [my] ...

Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the resolution of ratification for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (“New START), sending it to the entire Senate, where under Article II ...

In response to this post Ben and I put up earlier regarding the Graham bill’s detention provision, Steve Vladeck has written a reply and given me permission to post it below.  My comments follow after: ...

In my post on Friday on the Salahi oral argument, I pointed out that counsel for the detainee had erred in not bringing to the court's attention an important sentence from the district court's underlying...

It isn't every day that someone sends me a 5,700 word critique of, well, my own work and asks me to publish it. But today, David Remes, who represents a number of Guantanamo clients, sent me a document e...

[A jointly-written post by Bobby Chesney and Benjamin Wittes] Does the substantive scope of detention authority conferred by the Graham bill (S. 3037) “dramatically expand existing law,” as Steve Vladec...

The Second Circuit’s holding in Kiobel that plaintiffs cannot sue corporations under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) will, I predict, eventually be embraced by the Supreme Court.  But that will not end ATS ...

Steve Vladeck responds to Peter Margulies' latest comments on S. 3707: At the outset, it’s worth emphasizing that my concerns with S.

Peter Margulies, author of Law’s Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration, who previously offered these comments and these comments on S. 3707, weighs in on the bill’s mandatory stays to habe...

Just a brief follow-up on my earlier complaints about the "scorecard" approach to detainee litigation coverage. In this post from ten days back, I argued that--among its other problems--the press's tend...