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Readings: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) Letter to John Brennan, CIA Director Nominee, on Targeted Killing of US Citizens Abroad
John Brennan, nominated by President Obama to become the next CIA director, will apparently face some tough questioning from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at his Senate confirmation hearings (reportedly set f... -
Announcing the Lawfare News Feed
My excitement over Shane Harris's new blog, Dead Drop, provides a catalyst for an action I have been meaning to take for some time: creating an automated page on Lawfare for outside news feeds of particu... -
The Lawfare Podcast Episode #23: Brig. Gen. Mark Martins on His Decision to Drop Standalone Conspiracy Charges Against 9/11 Defendants
In this special episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Military Commission Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins discusses his decision to recommend dropping conspiracy charges against Khalid Sheikh M... -
Readings: Daniel Bethlehem on Principles Governing Self-Defense Against Non-State Actors
Former UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legal Adviser Daniel Bethlehem has just published an important piece in the latest issue of the American Journal of International Law. The article, entitled “Sel... -
Help Build the Wiki Document Library!
Lawfare, the web's premier source for news and analysis in national security law, is seeking interested and highly motivated law students to help build Lawfare's emerging Wiki library. Successful candida... -
"The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia," by Gregory D. Johnsen
Published by WW Norton (2012) Reviewed by Daniel Byman -
Ashley Deeks Joins Lawfare---Formally
I am delighted to announce that Ashley Deeks is joining Lawfare as our newest senior contributor. Astute readers will notice that this change is perhaps a bit less of a change than it may look, as Ashley... -
Readings: Andrew Kent on Ex Parte Quirin
Andrew Kent (Fordham University School of Law) has posted a new paper to SSRN, "Judicial Review for Enemy Fighters: The Court's Fateful Turn in Ex Parte Quirin, the Nazi Saboteur Case." (66 Vanderbilt L... -
"The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law," by Jenny Martinez
Published by Oxford USA (2012) Reviewed by John Harrison -
Readings: Bryant Walker Smith, "Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States"
Bryant Walker Smith (a fellow at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society) has authored a new CIS White Paper on whether self-driving cars are, or can be, legal in the United States. His answer is ...... -
The Year in Lawfare 2012
I tend to think of the Lawfare year as corresponding with the academic year, since Lawfare was born in September 2010, and its annual cycle thus corresponds roughly to the beginning of the fall semester.... -
Readings: David Skeel on Religion and the US Military
University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel has an important opinion piece in the December 28, 2012 Wall Street Journal on the role of religion in the US military, "The Military Balance of Faith... -
Readings: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Speech at the National Press Club on National Security Strategy
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta delivered a wide-ranging address on December 18, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington DC on the United States' overall national security strategy. The speech... -
Readings: Autonomous Weapon Systems and Their Regulation
This Lawfare post serves as a running list of links to articles, documents, or other materials related to the regulation and legal review of autonomous weapons systems (or increasingly automated weapons ... -
Closing the MOU Loop: My PENNumbra Response to Andrew Kent on Why <em>Boumediene</em> "Rights" Don't "Expire"
Back in early November, Ben and I blogged about Fordham Professor Andrew Kent's provocative new essay, "Do Boumediene Rights Expire?," which he published in "PENNumbra," the online companion to the Unive... -
Upcoming Brookings Events
Three events at Brookings are coming up in the near future that will be of interest to readers: 1. The Internationalization of Law Ninth Annual Raymond Aron Lecture Featuring Professor Mireille Delmas-... -
Readings: Matt and Ken on "Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers"
I linked earlier to this new article in the course of critiquing Human Rights Watch's report on "killer robots," but it's worth separate notice. -
Lawfare Outage---Apologies
For reasons we have not yet been able to determine, Lawfare has been down for the past few hours---since right around 10:52 am. Our apologies for the interrupted access to the site. For those of you who ... -
Administrative Note #2: Call for Help from Social Networkers and Podcast Listeners
If you're a regular Lawfare reader and Facebook user, and you haven't yet "liked" our Facebook page, please do us---and yourself, and your Facebook friends---a favor and do so. In fact, do one better and... -
Administrative Note: News Ticker
By now, I suspect, most readers will have noticed our new news ticker, which appears just below "Today's Headlines and Commentary" at the top of our sidebar. The ticker itself requires no explanation, bu...
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