The cert petition in Latif has been filed. So far, only the questions presented have been released publicly. They are as follows:

As drone aircraft become commonplace in civilian settings - everything from police surveillance to environmental groups tracking whaling vessels to hobbyists and much, much more - and as they become more...

Peter Margulies's reporting on AALS panels continues with this dispatch: Libya and Presidential Power

The ICRC recently published this report on its visits to detainees being held in U.S. facilities in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Iraq, and South Carolina. The report opens: Although terrorism is not new, Sta...

The Cato Institute, in its monthly Cato Unbound online magazine, is this month featuring a debate on drones to which Ritika and I have contributed an essay. The lead essay by David Cortright of Notre Dam...

The headline news from this Congressional Research Service report (which comes courtesy of Wired's Danger Room, in a very handy article by Spencer Ackerman) is that, today, nearly one in three US warplan...

If Ben needs something to tear into, there's also this--my guest post over at the ACSblog, which uses Judge Brown's disturbing rhetoric in Latif as a foil through which to evaluate this "anniversary." Re...

Never fear, Ben!  While the Times may have disappointed you today, NPR has stepped into the breach this morning with its Guantanamo anniversary story. To be frank, I'm more than a little surprised by th...

Here is Part II of Peter Margulies's reporting from AALS: AALS Federal Courts Debate II: Military Commissions and Material Support The lively federal courts panel at the American Association of Law Scho...

Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law has sent in two accounts of panel discussions at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. Here is the first:

And oddly, the notional issue seems to be abuses at the side of the facility already controlled by Afghan, not international, forces.