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The beginnings of a Maryland autumn can be discerned outside Fort Meade’s Smallwood Hall. Inside, the by-now familiar CCTV screen comes to life and displays an empty judicial bench, the Joint Task Force...
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Tuesday morning, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Al Janko v. Gates, an appeal of a damages action brought by a former Guantanamo detainee against various government of...
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One theme of Ben Emmerson’s interim report on remotely piloted aircraft and targeted killings is that governments must be more transparent with regard to any civilian deaths they cause. It’s easy to fin...
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For reasons that won’t surprise anyone, Lawfare deals a lot with automation and robotic technologies, ranging from cyber to big data to military robotics. So readers might be interested to learn of next...
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Guantanamo detainees have filed their response brief in the D.C. Circuit appeal of Hatim v. Obama, the "counsel access" case.
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Here’s a read-out from today’s oral argument in Aamer v.
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Over at TNR's Security States, Matt and I have a new piece about international calls to ban autonomous weapon systems. It begins like this:
What if armed drones were not just piloted remotely by humans ...
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You can find the interim report---the final won't be submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council until 2014, apparently---here.
There's a good bit to pore over in the paper authored by Emmerson, with who...
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Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., D.C. Circuit Judges David S. Tatel and Thomas B. Griffith, and Senior Judge Stephen F. Williams will hear oral arguments in Aamer v.
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Although the Federal Aviation Administration has been tasked by Congress to come up with regulations for the use of drones in domestic airspace, it is running late on that mandate. Even small, light mo...
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My colleague at The George Washington University Law School, Lori Fossum, has just published a Cyber Conflict Bibliography. For those interested in cybersecurity (and particularly cyber warfare) it is a...
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Mary DeRosa and Marty Lederman, both of whom were senior national security lawyers in the Obama administration, have a helpful if somewhat hopeful post at Just Security on the significance of the recent ...