This press release story in the Miami Herald announces that the British advocacy group, Reprieve, is in the midst of developing a litigation strategy designed to stop the United States from conducting dr...

As we’ve noted on this blog previously (here and here), continued U.S.

I noted yesterday that the United States may have resumed using lethal force against AQAP targets in Yemen.  Now, it appears, drone strikes seem also to have resumed in North Waziristan, in this case pos...

With all the was-it-legal-to-kill-UBL talk, I'm a bit surprised that this morning's news out of Yemen is getting so little attention.  Jeb Boone at the Washington Post reports that a missile struck a veh...

Analysis of the legality of the UBL operation continues to proliferate.  Among the many I've seen today, I would recommend Gabor Rona's fine piece defending the legality of the attack from the point of v...

The other night, with CNN reporting very tentatively that the Bin Laden operation had likely been a drone strike, Bobby and I got a little ahead of ourselves. Bobby said that it will "be interesting inde...

It is better to be lucky than to be good, and we might well find out here that President Obama has lucked into this one. But it's worth pausing for a moment over the possibility that a significant strate...

I'm not. I want to hear from Mary Ellen O'Connell on this. Was this strike--if it was, in fact, a drone strike--unlawful? Are the CIA personnel who conducted it war criminals?

[SECOND UPDATE: Not a drone strike, and probably not a test of the legal questions raised by drones...see here.] The President has not yet spoken to the public, but early reports indicate that UBL was k...

I have recently blogged about two issues:  whether congressional authorization is required as a constitutional matter for U.S.

The press coverage today of the leaked files concerning the Guantanamo detainees provides a dramatic contrast with public discussions over the operations in Libya.  The focus on the detainees is agonizin...

The Associated Press is reporting that U.S.