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Petitioner's Further Briefing in GTMO Hunger Strike Dispute
Yesterday, pursuant to Judge Thomas Hogan's recent order, lawyers for habeas petitioner Musa'ab Omar al-Madhwani filed a brief addressing the district court's jurisdiction to hear al-Madhwani's emergency... -
A Policy Paper on Autonomous Weapon Systems
Ken Anderson and I have just published a new policy paper through the Hoover Institution: Law and Ethics for Autonomous Weapon Systems: Why a Ban Won’t Work and How the Laws of War Can. Our paper beg... -
Developments in GTMO Emergency Motion on Water and Cold
Earlier today, in Anam et. al. v. -
Brian Foster Follows Up on Fredman and Latif
Brian Foster of Covington & Burling, responds to my comments on his earlier guest post as follows: -
Mark Mazzetti <em>New York Times</em> Article on U.S.-Pakistani Cooperation over Drone Strikes
The New York Times has posted a lengthy and very interesting article by reporter Mark Mazzetti entitled "Rise of the Predators: A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood," which will appear on tomorrow's ... -
Motions on <em>Clapper</em>'s Implications for Standing in the <em>Hedges</em> Second Circuit Appeal
Peter Margulies recently discussed the effect of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA denying standing to plaintiffs challenging the NSA's warrantless wiretapping p... -
A Guide to Appellate and Collateral Review Under the Military Commissions Acts
As the recent decisions by the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) in the Guantánamo military commission ACLU/media access cases suggests, there are a host of complicated and heretofore unresolved... -
Jess Bravin on Jonathan Fredman
Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal, the author of the recent book, The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, has posted the following statement on the Facebook page associated with his new ... -
Brian Foster on Fredman and Latif
Brian Foster of Covington & Burling, who represents several Guantanamo detainees, writes in with the following comments on my defense of CIA lawyer Jonathan Fredman---and the case of his former client, A... -
"Carrying Arms Openly," Drones, and Covert Action
Jens David Ohlin (Cornell) has an interesting post up at LieberCode in which he discusses a range of LOAC issues raised by CIA involvement in drone strikes. Jens raises the question whether CIA personne... -
DOD Responds--Cryptically--to CCR Hunger Strike Letter
See this letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Lietzau, on behalf of Secretary Hagel... At bottom, it seems increasingly clear that there are two very different accounts out there about what... -
A Response to Marcy Wheeler on Jonathan Fredman
It took only a few minutes from the time I posted my defense of CIA lawyer Jonathan Fredman last night for Marcy Wheeler (aka emptywheel) to begin tweeting bile against both Fredman and me. She used word...
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