The New York Times' Charlie Savage notes an interesting letter sent to President Obama by the new House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Buck McKeon, concerning plans for an executive order establishin...

In an act of shocking infidelity to Lawfare, I posted this on the Brookings web site. For those too lazy to click on the link--or too mortified by my unfaithfulness to dignify it by doing so--here is wha...

I received the following email today from Peter Margulies, author of Law’s Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration, following his reading of Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor After G...

The Washington Post today reports today on a new investigation by Georgetown faculty and students and the Center for Public Integrity about the murder of Daniel Pearl.

[updated to clarify that there are new regs in the works, not a new manual] Charlie Savage reports this morning that Secretary Gates may soon lift an order that has precluded the initiation of new milit...

An interesting opinion yesterday in United States v. Kassir (2d Cir. Jan.

According to CNN, the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Buck McKeon, suggests not closing Guantanamo but expanding it: The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said he would l...

The D.C. Circuit today announced its decision in ACLU v. Dep't of Defense, a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") case in which the ACLU challenged the government's withholding of documents relating to th...

Habeas lawyer David Remes sent in the following thoughts about the Supreme Court's denial of certiorari in Al Adahi today--about which I commented here: That the Court did not grant review is a disappoin...

...but I make very occasional exceptions, one of which has just been published. I wrote this lengthy article in the Harvard National Security Journal with a remarkable law student named Adam Klein (about...

Having now read the transcript of today's oral argument in General Dynamics v. United States/Boeing v.