As Ben says, there is a lot to talk about with respect to al-Aulaqi v. Panetta, a civil suit filed today by the ACLU and CCR in an attempt to obtain money damages for airstrikes conducted by the United S...

The ACLU has filed suit over the deaths in drone strikes of three U.S. citizens: Anwar Al-Aulaqi, his 16-year-old son, and AQAP propagandist Samir Khan. The complaint is available here. The ACLU's press ...

Ben already posted last week about the new battle a-brewing over the "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) that the Department of Justice is apparently requiring counsel in the Guantanamo habeas cases to s...

Daniel Cahen, the Legal Advisor to the ICRC's Regional Delegation for the United States and Canada, responds to my original post on Syria/LOAC with the following guest post: The publication of an intervi...

Gabor Rona responds to my earlier post (and Kevin Heller's reply) on Syria and LOAC:  1) I agree fully with Kevin. And let me know if I've misunderstood anyone here, but my understanding of the historic ...

Kevin Heller writes in with the following observation in response to my post yesterday on Syria/LOAC: I liked your post on Syria and the ICRC, but this statement gave me pause: "The ICRC’s past and prese...

In today's Washington Post, the paper reports that the United States has missed a statutory deadline of July 1, 2012 that required the government to scan all inbound cargo containers for radioactive mate...

As Ben noted last month, Judge Bates recently has shown some interest in possibly moving the Boumediene-at-Bagram case, Al Maqaleh v. Rumsfeld, along toward a resolution.  After several very quiet months...

[Update: a responsive post from ICRC's Daniel Cahen is here, and ones from Kevin Heller and Gabor Rona are here and here] Many papers and sites are today highlighting the fact that the ICRC has stated p...

An important news analysis piece from Scott Shane of the New York Times. I'm glad Shane took the time to lay this out. Though the point seems very obvious to me, it is decidedly non-obvious to many peopl...

Get your memo in support here. Government response due on July 23, I hear. The original opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA is available here. And no, I will not be participating in this pan...

Tom Junod wrote in with the following in response to Ben's earlier post: Point taken on the "lecture from the principal" criticism: you either like that or you don't, and you didn't.  But I don't think y...