Big news out of the House Armed Services Committee: Representative Mac Thornberry (a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, I proudly note) is going to introduce a bill enhancing oversight of...

From Harold Koh's speech to the Oxford Union yesterday: A third critical difference between this Administration and its predecessor is the Obama Administration’s determination not to address Al Qaeda and...

Hmmmm. From Harold Koh's speech to the Oxford Union: Congressional transfer restrictions with respect to Guantanamo detainees "must be construed in light of the President’s authority as commander-in chi...

Curtis Bradley and I have a casebook on foreign relations law that includes a heavy dose of national security law (including chapters on covert action and targeted killing) that might be of interest to L...

As Andrew Rosenthal noted in yesterday's New York Times, things seem to be heating up in Congress with respect to whether--and to what extent--the September 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (...

Earlier today, former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh gave a talk at the Oxford Union, entitled "How to End the Forever War?"  His remarks begin as follows: Thank you, Mr. President and Members...

I have been fretting for the last few weeks about the amount of misinformation that has been floating around the press coverage---and particularly the commentary---of the Guantanamo hunger strikes. But I...

In recent weeks, a coalition of NGOs launched a global campaign to ban "killer robots," or fully autonomous weapon systems (see reporting here).  Its statement calls "for urgent action to preemptively ba...

This morning, a gentleman named Sina Kashefipour, who tweets on national security-related matters under the improbable moniker @rejectionking, came by my office to interview me for a podcast he runs on n...

Next Thursday, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to grant certiorari in United States v. Ali--the case in which the highest court in the military justice system, the Court of Appeals for the A...

As Raff noted last week, the lawyers for the defendant-appellant in United States v. al-Bahlul--the military commission case in which the D.C.