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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...
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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...
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Eugene Volokh agrees with me that the New York Times editorial page is being less than candid about the legality of non-criminal detention.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Today in Hatim v. Obama, the Guantanamo habeas merits case briefed and argued this past November, the D.C.
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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.
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. . . 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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
