Back in October, we linked to a very interesting "green paper" produced by the UK Ministry of Justice addressing issues associated with secrecy, intelligence, security, and justice.  Clive Walker (Leeds)...

Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law has sent in two accounts of panel discussions at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. Here is the first:

The New York Times published two op-eds this weekend by former Guantánamo detainees -- one by Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, which extended a constitutional right to the wr...

As Raffaella mentioned earlier, the Ninth Circuit released three opinions on Thursday relating to class action litigation against the government and major telecommunications companies (AT&T, Verizon, etc...

We've previously covered the Fourth Circuit's pair of decisions in September dismissing tort suits against various contractors arising out of claims of torture at various detention facilities in Iraq--in...

Back in May, I noted that the House version of the NDAA contained a very interesting section addressing “military activities” in cyberspace.  Section 962 of that bill would have “affirmed” that DOD may c...

Canadian forces may be largely on their way out of Afghanistan, but for a Kabul-based contingent focused on training Afghans, but the prospect that they might nonetheless in the position of capturing a p...

Some things are just too ridiculous to be anything other than true.

Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post, whose reporting on cybersecurity issues (including counterespionage and offensive computer network operations) is indispensible, had an extraordinary piece yesterd...

The Senate passed the NDAA (S. 1867) last night on a 93-7 vote. The seven senators who voted against final passage are: Coburn Harkin Lee Merkley Paul Sanders Wyden The bill now moves on to a co...