Lawfare's Coverage of Legal Issues Regarding Military Action in Syria
The situation in Syria being fluid, and our writers having authored a good number of posts on the subject, I thought it might be useful to compile the blog's work on legal issues, international and domestic, regarding military action in Syria.
Thus we'll take a page from our military commissions coverage, and below note links to our recent and Syria-related entries. Look for this page to be updated and refreshed intermittently, in the coming days, as authors add further commentary.
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The situation in Syria being fluid, and our writers having authored a good number of posts on the subject, I thought it might be useful to compile the blog's work on legal issues, international and domestic, regarding military action in Syria.
Thus we'll take a page from our military commissions coverage, and below note links to our recent and Syria-related entries. Look for this page to be updated and refreshed intermittently, in the coming days, as authors add further commentary. (For general background on war powers issues, have a look at the blog's Wiki page)
Jack Goldsmith, A Quick Primer on AUMFs
Jack Goldsmith, Obama's Request to Congress Will Not Hamstring Future Presidents (Except for Some Humanitarian Interventions)
Bruce Riedel, Guest Post on Obama's Syria Decision
Jack Goldsmith, Congratulations President Obama
Matt Waxman, Restoring the Smeared Red Line
Jack Goldsmith, Philip Bobbitt on Syria
Jack Goldsmith, British Bow Out of Syria Intervention, USG Plunging Ahead
Wells Bennett, UK Parliament Votes Down British Military Action in Syria
Robert Chesney, The War Powers Resolution and Using Force in Syria
Matt Waxman, Intervention to Stop Atrocities: Kosovo as Predictive
Jack Goldsmith, Akande on the Legality of Humanitarian Intervention
John Bellinger III, The UK Legal Position on Humanitarian Intervention in Syria: Kosovo Redux
Jack Goldsmith, UK Legal Position on Humanitarian Intervention in Syria
Rick Pildes, Creating New International Law "Justifications" for Using Military Force Against Syria
Ben Wittes, Vacancies at the Top
Jack Goldsmith, Hathaway and Shapiro on Syria and the U.N. Charter
Wells Bennett, Letter From the Speaker of the House to POTUS Regarding Legal Justification for Action in Syria
Jack Goldsmith, Why Doesn't President Obama Seek Congressional Approval for Syria?
Wells Bennett, Two Thoughts on Syria and Kosovo
Jack Goldsmith, George Friedman on Obama's Bluff
Jack Goldsmith, Secretary of State Kerry on UNSCRs and Legality
Jack Goldsmith, General Dempsey on Syria Intervention
Rick Pildes, Kosovo, Syria: When it Comes to Military Force, What's the Proper Relationship Between Law and Political Judgment?
Jack Goldsmith, More on the Impact of Kosovo + Syria
Ashley Deeks, The Value of Kosovo as a Non-Legal Precedent
Jack Goldsmith, How Administration Lawyers Are Probably Thinking About the Constitutionality of the Syria Intervention (and a Note on the Domestic Political Dangers of Intervention)
Jack Goldsmith, The Kosovo Precedent for Syria Isn't Much of a Precedent
Ashley Deeks, Arming Syrian Rebels: Lethal Assistance and International Law
Ashley Deeks, Chemical Weapons and Syria: Enough to Justify the Use of Force?
Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.