National Public Radio has added its voice to that of the New York Times on the new Wikileaked Guantanamo files. NPR actually has a few stories, along with this database--done in conjunction with the Times.

The press coverage today of the leaked files concerning the Guantanamo detainees provides a dramatic contrast with public discussions over the operations in Libya.  The focus on the detainees is agonizin...

In my discussion earlier this week of some of the problems with relying on historical practice to support a constitutional claim of presidential authority to initiate military operations without congress...

The Associated Press is reporting that U.S.

Last Monday Harvard Law School conferred its medal of freedom on one of its graduates, General Mark Martins, Commander of the Rule of Law Field Force -Afghanistan.  The Harvard National Security Journal ...

We at Duke University are initiating a year-long project  in which a number of us will be considering and discussing the relationship between law and custom.  In connection with that project, I have star...

Every summer the International Law Department of the Naval War College puts on a don’t-miss IHL conference (here are the videos from last summer's event).  This year’s event will focus on IHL in the cont...

Michael Glennon, a longtime critic of presidential war unilateralism, has written a sharp critique of the April 1 OLC Opinion in support of the Libya intervention.  The conclusion (footnotes omitted): OL...

The United States is still bombing, under NATO command.  And Congress, which has not authorized this action, is still dithering.  If this pattern continues for another month (or two), the administration ...

Mike Schmitt (Durham) has an very interesting piece at the Yale Journal of International Law Online concerning UNSCR 1973 and the use of force in Libya.  Mike previously served as legal advisor to Operat...

OLC’s Libya memorandum (see here for Jack’s assessment, and here for a point-by-point overview) concludes as a matter of constitutional law that President Obama did not need approval from Congress in ord...