I've been thinking about the recent Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports in the context of my Meta-Study of Drone Strike Casualties from this summer, in which I examined the different met...

Over at Security States today, Ken and I have a piece adapted in part from my post of Wednesday (to which Amnesty International responds here) on the recent Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch r...

Avner Gidron, senior policy adviser with Amnesty International, responds to my discussion of Amnesty's new report on drone strikes in Pakistan: Perhaps it is not surprising that Benjamin Wittes disagrees...

The Hoover Institution has released Chapter 3 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law. The Introduction and Chapter 1 came out in March.

I have now read both of the two major human rights reports released yesterday on civilian casualties in drone strikes---one by Amnesty International on strikes in Pakistan and the other by Human Rights W...

Over at TNR's Security States, Matt and I have a new piece about international calls to ban autonomous weapon systems.  It begins like this: What if armed drones were not just piloted remotely by humans ...

You can find the interim report---the final won't be submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council until 2014, apparently---here. There's a good bit to pore over in the paper authored by Emmerson, with who...

Although the Federal Aviation Administration has been tasked by Congress to come up with regulations for the use of drones  in domestic airspace, it is running late on that mandate.  Even small, light mo...

For those who are following the saga of Lavabit, the company has now filed its brief in the Fourth Circuit.

Over at Security States,  I have this piece up, about the proliferation of city- and state-operated surveillance technologies---and the need to pair collection rules for these technologies with effective...