The afternoon session of Day 2 of the conference begins with introductory remarks from Gabby Blum, the moderator of the afternoon’s first panel.  She asks the panel to discuss the utility of force; what ...

I have little to add to Jack's excellent post yesterday about Charlie Savage's fascinating New York Times story on the latest dispute within the administration on the scope and reach of the AUMF. But I d...

An update: we've attended today's oral argument in Suleiman v. Obama, at the D.C. Circuit.  For scheduling reasons, however, we'll have to delay posting a recap of the argument until Monday.  Stay tuned ...

Here is the prepared text, released by the White House, of John Brennan's speech at the Harvard Law School-Brookings conference now under way in Cambridge. I will post video, including of the very intere...

Professor Blum welcomes the audience back and invites Professor Dan Meltzer to introduce John Brennan. Meltzer provides a short biography for Brennan and notes that he has been a key actor in shaping the...

It looks like I missed a habeas decision a few weeks ago. According to a docket entry of which I only became aware this morning, federal district Judge Royce Lamberth has ruled on the remand in the case ...

Charlie Savage has a story about a dispute between DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson and State Legal Advisor Harold Koh over the scope of the president’s legal authority to target members of al Qaeda-affil...

That is the title that the editors of the New York Times Magazine gave to an essay I wrote in reaction to former Vice-President Cheney’s book, In My Time.  The thrust of the essay is that early Bush unil...

As noted previously, I testified in late July before House Armed Services regarding detention policy, with a focus on the Warsame situation.  I've seen received a handful of QFRs from committee members, ...

The next episode in the D.C. Circuit’s Guantanamo detention saga: Suleiman v. Obama (Case No. 10-5292), an appeal set for oral argument this Friday before the D.C. Circuit.