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Palestine and the ICC: An (Imagined) View from Inside the Court
There has been considerable speculation about how the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) might react to the State of Palestine’s move to join the ICC. Some have sugg... -
The Palestinian Authority’s Lose-Lose-Lose Move on ICC
Just before the end of the year, the Palestinian Authority took steps to become party to the Rome Statute and thereby join the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is a lose-lose-lose move: it is bad... -
The Week that Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Welcome to the first full week of 2015! -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Will China’s Economy Dominate the 21st Century?
Editor’s Note: China’s huge population and spectacular economic growth since the 1980s at first gave rise to fears, and now a sense of inevitability, that China will surpass the United States in the 21st... -
The Holiday Fortnight that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As news broke of the cyberattack on Sony, Jack wrote of just how befuddled the US government seemed to be about how to respond. After years of thinking on cyberwar and perhaps thousands of roundtables, t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Palestinian mission to the United Nations delivered documents needed in order to join the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and more than a dozen other international treaties. The Pale... -
Al-Nashiri's Reply on the Appointments Clause
In December, attorneys for the Guantanamo detainee filed their reply brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. -
Coverage of Al-Nashiri’s Arraignment: Motions Hearing Part 3
At last, you have reached the final post in Lawfare’s coverage of the motions hearing portion of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s arraignment. -
A New Year's Message: Plans for 2015
First off, happy New Year to all our readers. The year 2014 was a great one for Lawfare--with continued growth in readership, and development of new content streams. I honestly did not believe we would ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday, the Pentagon released five Guantanamo detainees to Kazakhstan. The men---three Yemenis and two Tunisians---had been approved for repatriation in 2009; none of them had been charged with a crim... -
Five More GTMO Transfers
The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg has the scoop; apparently the five men are headed for Kazakhstan. The Pentagon freed five Guantánamo prisoners to resettlement in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, a day after the... -
Two Basic Problems With Abstention in <em>Nashiri</em>
Wells already flagged yesterday's D.D.C.
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