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CATO Event on Drones
Ben and Steve are speaking on a panel at the CATO Institute entitled "Drones and the New Way of War" along with Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law and Benjamin Friedman of CATO. The event will be moderated b... -
Mary Laurie Writes a "Chinese White Paper"
Mary M. Laurie, a third-year law student at Penn State Law, has rewritten the DOJ White Paper on targeted killing from the perspective the Chinese government. She explains: China considered using a drone... -
Four Reasons Sens. Graham and McCain are Wrong
Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain were quick out of the box last night in declaring that the Obama administration should hold Dzhokar Tsarnaev in military detention: Now that the suspect is in custody... -
Lashkar-e-Taiba as an "Associated Force" Engaged in Hostilities Against the US and Its Allies
For those who wish to understand the organizational boundaries of the AUMF these days, Lashkar-e-Taiba provides an interesting and important test case. Grist for the mill is found in this piece in Long ... -
District Court: No Jurisdiction Over Emergency GTMO Motion on Water, Cold
That's the gist of this report, filed earlier today by Politico's Josh Gerstein: A federal judge declined Monday to take action on behalf of a hunger-striking prisoner at Guantanamo Bay whose attorneys s... -
Ex-Pakistani President Musharraf's Authority Shot Down (Not by a Drone)
While ex-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was busy admitting on CNN that he approved at least some U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani territory during his time in office, the chief judge of Peshawar’s H... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #28: A Panel Discussion on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
The subject of lethal autonomous weapons has been one of considerable debate on this site---following a -
Readings: John Villasenor on "Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Privacy"
John Villasenor has new law review article out taking a systematic look at drones and privacy. Entitled "Observations from Above: Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Privacy" and published in the Harvard Journ... -
Redacted USG and Defense Briefs in Ghailani Appeal
Now available in redacted form: the government's opposition brief and the defendant's reply in United States v. Ghailani, a criminal case arising from the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanz... -
Ex-Pakistani President Admits to Consenting to U.S. Drone Strikes
I wonder what Ben Emmerson was thinking when he watched CNN this evening. Emmerson, the UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights who is conducting an investigation into the legality of ... -
Newsflash: Al Nashiri Hearings Postponed
Just a few days ago, the counsel for military commission defendant Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al Nashiri filed a motion for a continuance, requesting that the four days of hearings slated for next wee... -
Targeted Killing Resources Page
A while back, Jack asked a student named Samantha Goldstein to help him assemble some resources on targeted killing. The resulting bibliography has expanded over time, and we have decided to post it as a...
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