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Over the past week there has been much talk about the President's invocation of the 2001 AUMF in connection with ISIS. Many (including me) expressed considerable surprise, and doubt, about the merits of ...
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“To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisors should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the President,” Chairman of the Joint Chi...
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Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) will introduce an authorization for the use of military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) today. The proposal comes as no surprise.
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To "jump the shark" is a symbol for when a phenomenon (usually a TV show) reaches its apex and begin declining in quality. It's named after a famous "Happy Days" episode where Fonzie gets on a water ski...
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This week's hearing in the military commission case of United States v. Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi turned out to be a quick one. Monday afternoon was evidently sufficient time for court and counsel to debate ...
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Military judge J. Kirk Waits begins Monday's session in the military commission case against Hadi with some housekeeping matters: the detailing of a new member of the defense team, Lt. Col. Thomas Jasper...
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We are pleased to share our recently published article on law and autonomous weapons, on which we teamed up with our good friend Daniel Reisner (formerly head of the Israel Defense Forces International L...
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Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, introduced an authorization for the use of military force against ISIS yesterday.
According to a press release from Rep.
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Readers likely recall that last week, documents from the In Re Directives litigation, regarding foreign intelligence surveillance directives issued to Yahoo!, were declassified.
Chief among them: a new ...
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Continuing our coverage of the Transatlantic Dialogue on International Law and Armed Conflict, Lawfare is pleased to publish the discussion paper for the conference that Geoff Corn (South Texas) produced...
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Our guest this week is Dr.
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“The peace and security we enjoy in Europe and North America are under threat like never before,” writes Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen in a rousing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Ras...
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The newest installment in the Transatlantic Dialogue series (see here) has gone live at EJIL:Talk!. It is from Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne (U.
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The House Rules Committee has released an amendment to the Continuing Resolution (CR) that would authorize the Department of Defense to begin arming and training moderate Syrian rebels as identified by t...
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Yesterday petitioner-appellees Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, Abdurrahman al-Shubati and Fadel Hentif filed a joint motion for en banc rehearing in Hatim v. Obama, the counsel access case. The detainees see...
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Last week appellees in Klayman v. Obama filed a motion for the court's leave to televise the oral argument, scheduled for November 4, 2014. The D.C.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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At the top of the hour, Ben will host a conversation at the Brookings Institution with Wells Bennett, John Villasenor, and Gregory McNeal on The Future of Civilian Robotics.
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A note to readers: business back at Brookings will keep your correspondent away from Fort Meade, and from observing, almost live and via CCTV broadcast, a two-day pre-trial hearing in the military comm...
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On the docket today and tomorrow at Guantanamo: argument on the government's motion to protect national security information in United States v. Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi. The Chief Prosecutor issued a statem...