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Mike Newton (Vanderbilt) has just posted an interesting new essay, “Illustrating Illegitimate Lawfare,” which emphasizes an important distinction: between activities that might be described as “lawfare” ...
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A guest post from Professor Geoff Corn:
Last week I was fortunate to participate in an extraordinary round-table discussion on LOAC issues with Cuban IHL experts in Havana. The exchange was sponsored b...
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. . . Larkin Reynolds.
Byline-reading Lawfare devotees may have noticed over the past few days that a mysterious new name has been gracing our blog. Larkin is a legal fellow at Brookings this academic y...
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I promised I would offer thoughts on Tom Malinowski's latest missive after I had a chance to digest and reflect on it. Since then, I have been mostly digesting and reflecting on Justice Breyer's new book...
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On Thursday, the White House issued a new executive order to establish a uniform policy for government treatment of “controlled unclassified information” (CUI).
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Ok, I know press releases are supposed to be self-serving, but this is taking it a bit far. How did the ACLU headline its release on today's D.C. Circuit opinion in Salahi--you know, the opinion that vac...
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Charlie Savage of the NYT has read Bush's memoir and has a summary.
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(By Robert Chesney and Benjamin Wittes)
This morning the D.C. Circuit vacated and remanded a decision by former U.S. District Judge James Robertson, granting habeas relief to Mohammedou Salahi. The opin...
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The D.C. Circuit just released its opinion in Salahi v.
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I certainly agree with Adam Serwer's point in this post that it will be mindless and destructive if Republicans really tried to prevent transfers from Guantanamo. Along the way, however, Adam makes the f...
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When last we left the question of targeted killings, Kevin Jon Heller and I were arguing over how to read Tom Malinowski's statement on behalf of Human Rights Watch on the subject. Considering the questi...
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I just returned from the D.C. Circuit's Al Alwi oral argument--or, at least, the portion of it that the court conducted in open session. Here is a quick and dirty summary.
Al Alwi is not one of the impo...
