When the Secretary of Defense declares, as Leon Panetta recently did, that the strategic defeat of Al Qaeda is "within reach," it is probably time to start thinking about the termination of hostilities f...

Published by Oxford University Press USA (2011) Reviewed by Benjamin Kleinerman

In her post the other day, Marcy Wheeler hit on a theme I have been thinking a great deal about recently--indeed, that I have been writing a book about. So I know this is supposed to be a debate, but in ...

The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") yesterday released two judgments regarding the British military's alleged violation, in Iraq, of international human rights law. In the first case, Al-Skeini ...

I promised yesterday that I would collect and post my thoughts in response to Spencer Ackerman's and Marcy Wheeler's comments on drones and debates. Rather than try to take on the many big themes they ra...

Isn't this interesting....  In a case titled United States v. Kaziu (E.D.N.Y.

Charlie Savage has an important piece regarding the Obama Administration's position on the scope of its authority under the AUMF, as it relates to al Shabab.  Quoting anonymous senior administration offi...

A few days ago, I posted this little comment concerning Eugene Robinson's column on drones. The response to it has, I confess, surprised me, particularly as it has focused largely on an off-hand remark I...

Well, this is timely.  The Journal of National Security Law & Policy has just published this 104-page article from David Kris (who recently stepped down as the AAG for the National Security Division at D...

A couple of weeks ago, as Ben noted, Trevor Morrison posted an article addressing the Libya-hostilities-OLC debate.  An expanded and updated version of that paper is now available here at Harvard Law Rev...