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.

The New York Times published two op-eds this weekend by former Guantánamo detainees -- one by Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, which extended a constitutional right to the wr...

At one point prior to 2009, [Update: In my haste this morning, I erred by referring to 100,000 detainees in Iraq at a single point in time, when instead I meant to refer to the volume of detainees we hel...

Last year, at this time, I wrote a hot-headed little post objecting the signing statement President Obama issued in connection with last year's defense authorization act. This year's signing statement, w...

By Marty Lederman and Steve Vladeck* [Cross-posted at OpinioJuris] Section 1021 of the NDAA and the Laws of War In our companion post, we explained that section 1021 of the NDAA will not have the dram...

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...

According to the AP, President Obama signed H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act, into law this morning in Hawaii. Below the fold is the text of the signing statement accompanying the bill: ...

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...