Lawfarers are by now steeped in this news: the White House apparently intends to diminish the CIA's responsibility for drone strikes, and to transfer that responsibility, over time, to the Department of ...

Matt Waxman has just published a new cyber paper that’s well worth reading. The piece picks up on an earlier article of Matt’s that explored when states might treat cyber-attacks as "force" or "armed att...

As Jack mentioned, Dan Klaidman of the Daily Beast reported today that “the White House is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the Defense Department." Over at Fo...

While we appreciate Ben's answer to our question (and share his view that we’re reaching the point of the conversation where everything has been said and everyone has said it), we still fail to understan...

That is the title of Dan Klaidman’s important story: Three senior U.S. officials tell The Daily Beast that the White House is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to t...

It’s quickly becoming apparent that we and Jack appear to be talking past each other on the merits of the Chesney/Goldsmith/Waxman/Wittes (CGWW) proposal for a new framework statute for “extra-AUMF threa...

Our colleague Ashley Deeks has just published "The Geography of Cyber Conflict: Through a Glass Darkly," as part of the Naval War College's volume of International Law Studies on the geography of war. T...

Over at the D.C. Exile blog, Ben Farley has this thoughtful post on U.N. Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson’s recent statement on drone strikes in Pakistan. It concludes:

I, for one, welcome our eagle-claw grasping robot overlords…

In the very first days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration asked Congress for broad statutory authorization to use military force to “deter and pre-empt any future a...