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I'm pleased to announce that Paul Rosenzweig will be guest blogging for Lawfare while Congress considers the cybersecurity legislation that is now headed for the Senate floor. Paul has a great deal of ex...
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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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So amidst all of the gridlock in Congress and the presidential campaigning, there is actually a pretty good chance that Congress might get something significant and forward-looking done this year. The is...
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Well, that didn't take long. The government only submitted its opposition to Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari's petition for en banc review on January 19. But the D.C. Circuit today denied the petition. A...
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As Ben mentioned, we're still waiting for iTunes to approve the Lawfare Podcast. Even before approval, however, you can subscribe to it through iTunes by following these simple steps:
Open iTunes.
Go ...
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Eric Schmitt and Michael Schmidt write in the New York Times that the drones keeping watch in Iraq are less than welcome these days, despite their being operated by the State Department, not the military...
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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 Blog of Legal Times tells us that the Department of Justice has "filed court papers Wednesday in a public records suit in Washington asking U.S.
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No big surprise here: The D.C. Circuit has affirmed the judgment of the District Court in upholding the detention of Guantanamo detainee Abdul-Rahman Abdo Abulghaith Suleiman's appeal.
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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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Tomorrow morning, the en banc Fourth Circuit will hear oral argument in the two Abu Ghraib/contractor preemption cases about which we've blogged previously.
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My earlier post prompted the following reply from Cully Stimson, whom I thank for sending such a thoughtful response, and which I think it only fair to post in its entirety:
My friend Steve Vladeck takes...
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Further to the ongoing exchange (begun on Salon and continued on this blog here and here) between Laura Pitter from Human Rights Watch and Ben on the fairness vel non of the al-Nashiri military commissio...
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I don't normally agree on detention policy matters with Seton Hall's Mark Denbeaux--and there's certainly some rhetoric in this piece in Jurist that I would never use and conclusions I do not reach. That...
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Let's start with the Aghanistan news. There has been another suicide bombing in Helmand province, signifying the Taliban's continued unwillingness to negotiate with the United States and causing three de...
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For all D.C. readers, this upcoming event at Georgetown University Law Center may be of interest.
The Georgetown Center on
National Security and the Law
Cordially invites you to a critical discussion of ...
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The New York Times reports on NYPD police commissoner Raymond Kelly's decision to personally cooperate with the prooducers of "The Third Jihad," an anti-Muslim film that drew "angry condemnation from Mus...