David Remes---who, in addition to representing several Guantanamo detainees, is a member of the plaintiffs' legal team in Hedges v. Obama---sent in this note yesterday: The debate on this blog about Jud...

Raha Wala of Human Rights First writes in with the following response to my comments on Hedges. My thoughts follow his critique and very-cautious defense of Judge Forrest: Ben’s post on Judge Forrest’s o...

I don't have a lot to add to Ben's analysis of Judge Forrest's decision yesterday in Hedges v.

I have now read through Judge Forrest's opinion in Hedges---all 112 pages of it. I have done so only briskly, and I have surely missed things in my haste. But here are some initial thoughts. The opinion...

I have spent a lot of time publishing other people's statements on the death of Adnan Latif over the past couple of days and have refrained from expressing my own views---in part because I have been gath...

I haven't read it yet, but here it is.

The State Department has announced that it will, at long last, designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.  Apart from the rhetorical value of the designation, the main consequence...

On September 4, Judge Naomi Buchwald of the Southern District of New York dismissed an Alien Tort Statute suit against President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, on the basis of a Suggestion of Immunity f...

It’s now public—as required by the 2012 Intelligence Authorization Act. Here’s the chart:

Last fall, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a sweeping decision in the long-running Alien Tort Statute suit against Rio Tinto rejecting Rio Tinto’s defenses on nearly every issue and prompting dissent...

Those who recall my earlier, premature, sharing of the Tallin Manual will be pleased to learn that an authorized version is now available online and I am happy to provide this link to it with the permiss...

I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years.  Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...