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The Convention Against Torture: Extraterritorial Application and Application to Military Operations
Belatedly, I want to join the discussion about the extraterritorial application of the Convention Against Torture (CAT), about which Jack commented on Friday, drawing on an article by Charlie Savage earl... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The Sectarian Apocalypse
Editor’s Note: The savage fighting in Syria and now Iraq seems to grow worse every month. As the U.S. role in the conflict grows, so too does the need to understand the motivations of the fighters, inclu... -
The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #97: Bahlul, Bahlul, Bahlul, Part Deux
By now you know: Wednesday morning saw oral argument in Al Bahlul v. United States---the first since the D.C. Circuit's en banc decision, and the matter's remand to a three judge panel consisting of Circ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Ben outlined all the many, surprising---and mutually contradictory---ways in which President Obama is “right.” Cody noted that ISIS and al Nusra appear to have obtained drone technology and shared some ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A doctor in New York who recently treated Ebola patients in Guinea has contracted the disease, the New York Times reports. -
The Debate About the Extraterritorial Scope of the Torture Convention’s Provisions on Cruelty is (Almost Certainly) Not About USG Interrogation Policy
A week ago Charlie Savage reported that the Obama administration “is considering reaffirming the Bush administration’s position that the [Convention Against Torture(CAT)] imposes no legal obligation on t... -
Look Who Else Has Drones: ISIS and Al Nusra
Since the introduction of drone technology to the battlefield, countless academics, policymakers, and military planners have pondered a disturbing question: what happens when other countries or non-state... -
On the Legal Reforms that Will, and Will Not, Come from the Fourth Plenum
The Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress kicked off two days ago in Beijing. -
Al Qaeda Has Set its Sights on Xinjiang---and China Isn't Happy About It
If you don’t follow the jihadi social media scene, you may not know that the first issue of Al Qaeda’s online English-language magazine, Resurgence, has just hit webstands across the terrorist world. For... -
President Obama Is Right
President Obama is right. He was right when he said, as a presidential candidate in 2007, that “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a ... -
Russian Bagram Detainee Set for Federal Prosecution in U.S.
Or so I gather from this Washington Post piece, which opens thusly: A Russian captured fighting with insurgents in Afghanistan and held for years at a detention facility near Bagram air base will be flow... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In Ottawa yesterday, a gunman “shot and killed a soldier,” Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, before entering Canada’s Parliament building, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with MPs. In a firefight that...
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