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As Wells mentioned, a recent U.S. strike in northwest Pakistan may have been aimed at Abu Yahya al-Libi, Al Qaeda's #2.
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George Washington University Law School's Laura A. Dickinson's book from Yale University Press (2012), Outsourcing War & Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs, is quite...
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Lawyers for the accused in the September 11 case want George Bush and Barack Obama to testify, according to the Associated Press. In addition to the current and former president, Joe Biden, Eric Holder, ...
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Published by Oxford University Press (2012)
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Consider two views about what went wrong after 9/11 (if you think anything did).
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Lawfare's own Alan Rozenshtein has just published a short Note in the most recent Harvard Law Review explaining and critically discussing controversies surrounding the National Defense Authorization Act ...
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Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out our readership survey. Nearly 300 people did so, and the result is a rich dataset of feedback, suggestions, concerns, criticism and gratifyingly, a great ...
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My personal favorite response to our reader survey came from a "government lawyer" in response to our question of whether we should make Lawfare-branded merchandise available. "You are right to be sensit...
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Our friends over at Opinio Juris are hosting a neat online symposium discussion of Professor Laura Dickinson's book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Af...
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For those who may have missed this, I'm moving it back to the top of the blog. The more responses we get, the more useful it will be.
We'd love to get feedback on the site. We'd also like to learn more...
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Back in March, I posted a guest post by Haridimos Thravalos on the history of conspiracy prosecutions in military commissions.
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Another man wearing an Afghan uniform opened fire on NATO troops today, killing one. Graham Bowley at the New York Times reports,
Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy has the scoop on the U.S.
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According to iTunes, "We have not received enough ratings to display an average for [The Lawfare P]odcast." This seems like a problem that listeners who access the podcast through iTunes ought to fix.
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A great many thanks to everyone--and there were a lot of you--who sent me thoughtful comments, criticisms, and praise concerning our military commission coverage in response to my request of yesterday. H...
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Announcing the inaugural paper of the Lawfare Research Paper Series
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Lawfare is pleased to announce that it is beginning publication of occasional papers, under title of the Lawfare Research Paper Series. Papers published in this series are ones that the Lawfare editors ...
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In the next few days, the Naval War College will be devoting a workshop to the topic of the legal geography of the battlefield. That includes the question of whether there is one, separate from where th...
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I'm stoked to announce an exciting change in Lawfare's staffing. Wells Bennett, who has long been a Contributor to the site, is becoming a Special Correspondent, having left his law firm to devote himsel...
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Back in March (so, well before John Brennan's new remarks on the issue), my friend and colleague Mike Lewis from Ohio Northern and I participated in a "teleforum" debate for the Federalist Society on the...
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The predominance today of "international criminal law" within public international law has meant a corresponding demotion of other areas of PIL - the law of international organizations, for example. But...
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For New York-area readers, the American Constitution Society and the Brennan Center for Justice are co-sponsoring an "intra-progressive" debate tonight at the Brennan Center, featuring Marty Flaherty fro...