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Justice Kennedy, Alex Bickel, and the Separation of Powers
Over at SCOTUSblog, there's a terrific symposium underway to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Least Dangerous Branch, Alex Bickel's seminal work on the Supreme Court and judicial review. -
Farewell to the Lawfare Readership Counter
Thanks to all who asked to be counted as regular Lawfare readers. The results of this tiny little survey have been helpful and illuminating--though they are admittedly somewhat tentative. Because I put t... -
Targeted Warfare: Individuating Enemy Responsibility
In an earlier post, here, I described an article I was working on, with my colleague Sam Issacharoff, on detention, targeted killings, and the fundamental transformation we see taking place in the practi... -
Mary Ellen O'Connell Has a New Article on Drones and Targeted Killing
Guess what? They're still illegal outside of Afghanistan: Targeted killing with drones in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan have generally violated the right to life because the United States is rarely part o... -
Naunihal Singh on the Oak Creek Massacre
My old friend Naunihal Singh, a political science professor at Notre Dame University, has this very moving piece on The New Yorker's web page on the killings at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin: T... -
Room for Debate Exchange on Domestic Hate Groups
The New York Times is running a "Room For Debate" exchange on the question of whether the threat from domestic hate groups is being overlooked. -
John Brennan's Speech on Yemen
And, you know, some related stuff - like drone strikes and security leaks. C-Span's coverage of the speech, which Brennan gave earlier today at the Council on Foreign Relations, is here. -
Counting Lawfare Readers
My recent joking exchange with readers about Arlington VA’s Lawfare traffic masks a reality I have decided to take decisive action to change: We don't know how many people read Lawfare. Thanks to Google... -
"Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America," by David K. Shipler
Published by Knopf (2012) Reviewed by Sara Aronchick Solow -
Readings: Daniel Byman on Al Qaeda and its Affiliates
Dan Byman, Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, has a new paper out entitled “Breaking the Bonds between Al Qaeda and its Affiliate Organizations.” The paper, acc... -
Not All Arlington Lawfare Readers Eschew RSS Feeds
I just received the following email from Air Force General Counsel Charles A. Blanchard in response to my correspondent from San Francisco, who had hypothesized that West Coast Lawfare readers might be t... -
Bay Area Lawfare Readers Rise Up In Protest
I just received the following email from a loyal reader in the Bay Area complaining about the manner in which Google Analytics counts readers: I write in the spirit of the age-old outraged reader--th... -
Fun Lawfare Readership Tidbit
Here’s a fun—and strangely evocative—factoid about Lawfare’s readership. Over this site’s nearly two years of existence, our readership has been heavily concentrated in Washington DC. Seventeen percent... -
Marcy Wheeler Responds to Carrie Cordero
Over at the Emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has this response to former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero's guest post of this morning. She notes that Senator Wyden responded at y... -
Carrie Cordero On the FAA Reauthorization
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown's Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following account of a recent Cato Institute event (which, ahem, would have... -
Jonathan Horowitz Comments on Army Manual on Avoiding Civilian Harm
Jonathan Horowitz of the Open Society Justice Initiative has largely positive comments on the new Army manual on avoiding civilian harm. It opens: This month, Lawfareblog.com posted the U.S. -
Very Interesting Comment on the Lawfare Drone Smackdown
I just received a very interesting email from Major John Harwood, USAF, whom I met recently at the MILOPS Conference in Singapore, in response to my post this morning about the coming Drone Smackdown: I ... -
Federalist Society Teleforum on Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l
This Friday, I'll be joining Benjamin Powell from WilmerHale (and formerly, inter alia, the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) for a Federalist Society teleforum on C... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Washington Post has more on who was behind the deadly attacks in Iraq and what they mean for country's stability. Reuters reports that five female detainees linked to Al Qaeda have been released by ... -
Readings: Clausewitz for Kids
The other day, Wells drew my attention to what could be the single most excellently eccentric national security-oriented project currently ongoing on the web: It is called Clausewitz for Kids. I am appar...
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