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Here is video of the plenary panel from last week's ASIL conference, entitled "International Law in the Obama Administration: The First Four Years." Moderated by Donald Donovan, the panel included former...
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From Zach Weiner over at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
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There are no major factual blunders in yesterday's New York Times editorial on the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes, and there's actually a fair bit in the editorial with which I agree.
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The New York Times has posted a lengthy and very interesting article by reporter Mark Mazzetti entitled "Rise of the Predators: A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood," which will appear on tomorrow's ...
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Peter Margulies recently discussed the effect of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA denying standing to plaintiffs challenging the NSA's warrantless wiretapping p...
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On Thursday, I participated in a particularly good discussion at Georgetown University Law Center on "Legal and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Weapons." Hosted by the school's National Security Law S...
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North Korea's social media accounts were hacked yesterday by Anonymous, not that any of that country’s citizens would know about it.
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On the "unusual coincidence" scale this one is pretty high. Just days after I post a short blog about the idea of changing liability rules for private sector actors in cyberspace, the New York Times pub...
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I hope you will forgive me a bit of self-congratulation. Today, The Great Courses released a video course that I did for them entitled Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare. ...
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Lawfare's Trevor Morrison has been appointed the next dean of NYU Law School. NYU is gaining in Trevor one of the very best scholars, teachers, colleagues, and leaders I know. Congratulations, Trevor!
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As the recent decisions by the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) in the Guantánamo military commission ACLU/media access cases suggests, there are a host of complicated and heretofore unresolved...
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Bad news from Farah, Afghanistan, where a deadly insurgent attack killed at least 44 and wounded more than 100. Nine Taliban fighters dressed as Afghan soldiers stormed a government compound, and a firef...
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Every year I try to draw particular attention to this terrific event, and for good reason: it is a wonderful occasion to take a deep dive into an array of topics that will interest any member of the lis...
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Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal, the author of the recent book, The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, has posted the following statement on the Facebook page associated with his new ...
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Seven years of negotiations yesterday came to a close, when the U.N.
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Those who follow the blog will know that I am skeptical of the government's ability to construct a regulatory system for enhancing cybersecurity standards. I am often asked, however: "well, then what do...
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Brian Foster of Covington & Burling, who represents several Guantanamo detainees, writes in with the following comments on my defense of CIA lawyer Jonathan Fredman---and the case of his former client, A...
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Jens David Ohlin (Cornell) has an interesting post up at LieberCode in which he discusses a range of LOAC issues raised by CIA involvement in drone strikes. Jens raises the question whether CIA personne...
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See this letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Lietzau, on behalf of Secretary Hagel...
At bottom, it seems increasingly clear that there are two very different accounts out there about what...
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Last week I noted that the House Judiciary Committee was circulating a proposal to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that was mostly a wish list for the Department of Justice. Yesterday a diverse...