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Riddle me this: At what point does official acknowledgment of a covert action become so strong that it can no longer be justified as a covert action--which is statutorily defined as action in which the r...
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Drone strikes in Yemen raise important questions regarding the field of application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the extraterritorial applicability of International Human Rights Law (IHRL), a...
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It is a great pleasure to announce the first episode of the Lawfare Podcast:
The Lawfare Podcast quite literally speaks for itself, so I won't spend a lot of time introducing it. Like a lot of things w...
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[The following guest post, from Geoff Corn (South Texas College of Law), extends the discussion of the Gotovina decision from Laurie Blanks's guest post yesterday]
On April 15, 2011, the Internatio...
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[This is the first of two posts concerning the ICTY's Gotovina decision (the ICTY summary of which appears here, and two volumes of trial documents are available here]
Professor Laurie Blank, Director o...
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The government has filed its opposition to cert in the case of Al Madhwani v. Obama--a Guantanamo habeas case. Al Madhwani's cert petition seeks review of this DC Circuit opinion affirming his detention.
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As Ben pointed out yesterday, the Washington Post report about the possibility that non-Afghan detainees held at Parwan will be repatriated to their home countries is significant news. Apart from its imp...
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Daniel Klaidman at Newsweek, whose forthcoming book on the Obama Administration's counterterrorism policies promises to be must-read material, reports that the decision has been made to go public with so...
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Opinion here. Commentary later, hopefully.
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Former Guantanamo detainee Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko has also filed a notice of appeal in the D.C. Circuit concerning a December decision by Judge Richard Leon throwing out his civil suit.
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On Friday, December 30, while much of the world, human rights groups, and the press were out on holiday, the State Department without fanfare submitted the fourth U.S. periodic report required under the ...
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Against the al-Nashiri backdrop, the government has now filed its brief on the merits in United States v. Hamdan (the first post-conviction appeal under the Military Commissions Acts of 2006 and 2009), w...
