I know, I know! A goodly number of Lawfare readers are having a good smirk at my expense following the release of Bobby's and Larkin's and my new detention tome. Didn't I promise, one reader was graciou...

Well, at least we learned something about fisheries. Following this morning's lengthy oral argument in Oceana, Inc. v. Locke, the D.C. Circuit had an oh-so-brief brief discussion of Khan v. Obama in ope...

(By Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Larkin Reynolds) It is with great pleasure that we announce the second edition of the The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking. As...

On Friday morning the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in Khan v. Obama (Case No.

A reader writes in to point out that, in my earlier post, I have given away the store on behalf of the administration--and, what's worse, on matters on which I wholeheartedly agree with the administration.

I have now had a chance to read through House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon's new detention and AUMF language, released yesterday as part of the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorizatio...

The House Armed Services Committee just released the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill. I have not looked at it yet, but it apparently contains new language on detention and AUMF...

Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning-News has an article that will be of interest to anyone trying to come to grips with whether a state of armed conflict can be said to exist in some areas of Mexico. ...

In a recent post, Bobby raised the question of what impact, if any, Bin Laden’s death would have on the legal effect of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or “AUMF.”  As I noted in a post earli...

Last week, amidst the flurry of interest occasioned by the wikileaks disclosure of GTMO detainee assessment documents, I was asked to join a group of folks offering opinions on the matter for Foreign Pol...