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:

By Marty Lederman and Steve Vladeck* [Cross-posted at OpinioJuris] Editorial pages and blogs have been overrun in the past couple of weeks with analyses and speculation about the detainee provisions in...

There's been a fair amount of media and blog attention to the proposed new rules governing (and substantially widening) the government's access to communications between military commission defendants an...

Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al-Kandari has filed a petition for rehearing en banc with the D.C. Circuit Court in his case against the U.S. His singular question is whether the Federal Rules of Evidence apply to...

A dispatch from the Lawfare North Pole: the White House seems to be using more aggressive language, in opposing Congress’s recent efforts to limit the executive branch’s authority over detainee affairs. ...

On Thursday, Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court in D.C. issued a little-noticed decision granting dismissal in Al Janko v. Gates. The case is noteworthy, however, because Al Janko–unlike other...

David Glazier (Loyola Los Angeles) writes in with the following guest post in response to my earlier musings on the distribution of blame for the outcome in the Ali Musa Daqduq case: I think the analysis...

Counsel for Guantanamo habeas petitioners Uthman, Almerfedi, and Latif--all of whom have cert petitions pending or imminent--have asked the Supreme Court to hold off on deciding whether to grant until th...

As Lawfare readers know only too well, I don't engage with He Who Must Not Be Named on this Blog. I do, however, engage with Seema Saifee, who represents four Guantanamo Uighurs (three of whom are no lon...

Another bad development in the Daqduq situation (see here if you don't know whom I'm talking about).  According to the AP, Iraqi officials have indicated that the only charge they plan to bring against A...

We've previously covered the Fourth Circuit's pair of decisions in September dismissing tort suits against various contractors arising out of claims of torture at various detention facilities in Iraq--in...

What an interesting day for the question of how to address cases involving participation in the insurgency in Iraq. Earlier today we learned that Ali Musa Daqduq, the last American military detainee in ...