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The Department of Defense's announcement, from this Saturday, is here; there's also this Saturday piece from the New York Times' Charlie Savage:
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Zivotofsky was a case about the recognition power, but it was also the first in quite a while to offer any insight into the Justices’ views on the nature of the President’s power to communicate with fore...
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It appears that the United States conducted an airstrike in Libya yesterday, targeting and killing Mokhtar Belmokhtar--a notorious Algerian terrorist who was once a member of GIA and GSPC, continued as a...
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At their simplest, both Judge Henderson's 85-page dissent from the D.C. Circuit's decision in al Bahlul v.
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Friday’s D.C. Circuit decision on military commissions, Al Bahlul v. United States, rests on a narrow, grudging reading of Congress’s war powers.
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Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s latest victories in Iraq have been met by teeth-gnashing in Iraq and hand-wringing in Washington. U.S. military officials expressed disgust and disappointment with the ...
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The data breach of OPM’s personnel records system is a privacy and security disaster for the U.S. Government and for the 4 million (and possibly as many as 14 million) current and former federal employee...
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On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Lawfare Founding Editor Jack Goldsmith and Marty Lederman—Georgetown law professor, Just Security blogger, and former Justice Department official—sat down to discuss the S...
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The NYT reports that the Obama administration is “considering financial sanctions against the attackers [from China] who gained access to the files of millions of federal workers” in from Office of Perso...
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On Monday, Lawfare readers awoke to find the new and improved Lawfare site. Bobby, Jack, and Ben introduced the site, and Ben announced the beginning of Omphalos, a Lawfare subsidiary site devoted to int...
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The Central Intelligence Agency has released five newly declassified documents. The release states that each document related to a 2005 Office of Inspector General (OIG) report examing the Agency's accou...
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I have been consumed for the past week with Lawfare’s relaunch, but I have not forgotten that I promised to address Charlie Savage’s response to my critique of his recent story on NSA cybers
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The U.S. Department of Defense's Office of the General Counsel has released its long-awaited Law of War Manual. The greatly anticipated tome is the product of a multi-year effort by military and civilian...
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The Obama administration’s trade agenda suffered a massive blow earlier today, according to Politico, as the House of Representatives voted against the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill, a $1.8 billion me...
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Published by Oxford University Press (2011)
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As I explained in this legal primer, the South China Sea dispute has primarily revolved around two distinct legal quarrels: a dispute over territory and a dispute over the substance and application of ma...
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I have only flipped through the three-judge panel's 2-1 ruling in this quite important military commissions case.
It seems Judges Judith Rogers (who authored today's opinion for the majority) and Davi...
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One of the noteworthy disagreements in Zivotofsky concerns the significance of foreign perceptions of U.S. law.
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The Hoover Institution's D.C. office and Lawfare are having a reception for our recent book, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law (Hoover Institution Press Publ...