Today’s White House statement about last night’s spectacular Special Operations raid into Syria states that “This operation was conducted with the full consent of Iraqi authorities and, like our existing...

Books reviewed in this essay: @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, by Shane Harris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014)

Interested in the ongoing debate over the relationship between LOAC and Human Rights Law in general, or the intersection of those bodies of law in relation to non-criminal detention in particular? You wo...

In the last two weeks, three new reports have claimed to offer insight into this past summer’s bloody Gaza conflict. Each has been followed by a stream of articles and commentary as pundits rushed to rei...

I've long been a huge fan of (Retired) Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, not least because his prized possessions include a scorecard from Game 3 of the 1932 World Series--better known to baseball...

Published by Oxford UP (Paperback 2015) Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson

A new AP-GFK poll released today finds broad swaths of the American public continue to strongly support the U.S. targeted killing program. The poll was conducted in the days immediately following Preside...

A markup of the FY2016 defense bill---which includes, as per usual and among other things, provisions restricting transfers of Guantanamo detainees---will get underway at 10:00 a.m. at the House Armed Se...

Earlier this month, the government of the Netherlands hosted a Global Conference on Cyberspace, which was, apparently, fairly well received, as the Chair's Statement suggests. One important side event, ...