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About a month ago, I asked what had happened to the UN’s effort to develop a set of standard operating procedures to govern detentions that arise during the course of UN operations. It appears that such...
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Over at opinio juris, Duncan Hollis has an interesting post about whether the agreement reached with Iran on early Sunday morning is legally binding. (I do disagree with Duncan’s title: the “new U.S.-Ir...
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Clive Walker of the University of Leeds writes in with the following update on national security law news from Britain:
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A few hours ago, the United States and five world powers reached an agreement with Iran to freeze and even roll back aspects of its nuclear program. Iran pops up on Lawfare from time to time, in part bec...
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As I mentioned the other day, I have asked my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman to curate a new feature on Lawfare: A weekly essay, to run on Sundays, on foreign and military affairs topics of interest to...
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Tahrir Square, November 19, 2013.
As you enter Mohamed Mahmoud Street from Tahrir Square, a sign reads, “The borders of Egypt. Entry is prohibited for Muslim Brotherhood, Army and remnants of the Mubara...
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Over at the Brookings Iran@Saban blog, my colleague Daniel Byman---who has agreed to curate a foreign policy essay feature for Lawfare (more on that later)---has this interesting essay on "Iran's Terrori...
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Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today. By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h...
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On Monday, the Senate approved in a 91-0 vote to proceed to debate on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, and floor debate began today.
We've covered the competing bills on Lawfare, one passed ...
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Georgetown University political scientist C. Christine Fair has been a leading voice in challenging much of the conventional wisdom about the nature of conflict in Pakistan, including the role of US dron...
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Over at Just Security, David Cole rounds out our exchange on global international privacy rights. I'm going to let him have the final word here and merely link to his post as a reader service. As I think...
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As I’ve discussed previously, I am finishing a forthcoming paper on constitutional war powers and “The Power to Threaten War.” In the meantime, the Yale Law Journal Online has published my essay, drawin...
