From The Onion: MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN—According to CIA officials and sources on the ground in the region, an unlikely friendship has developed between a 9-year-old Pakistani boy and a U.S. MQ-1 Predator dr...

Does anyone have any idea what this is about? In March 2011, the government made classified filings in 10 cases involving high-value detainees. The filings have never become public, and I have been wond...

The British Supreme Court---in its Michaelmas Term---has handed down the case of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v. Rahmatullah. You might remember the Rahmatullah case, which we ...

Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller notes a new draft article he has posted on SSRN regarding the legality of signature strikes under international law. Kevin assures me that "Lawfare types certainly ...

Thanks to an unexpected pair of days off, I've finally had the chance to review Judge Bates's October 19 rulings in Al-Maqaleh v. Gates ["Al-Maqaleh II"] and Hamidullah v. Obama. As readers know, these a...

Gabor Rona of Human Rights First took some time out from today's hurricane to send me the following thoughts on my post from Friday engaging Glenn Greenwald on the subject of counting civilian casualties...

That is the headline in a story in Thursday’s Guardian, which begins: Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces in the Gulf, citing secret legal advi...

I am hereby ending my boycott of Glenn Greenwald. I'm doing it not because his latest post about me refrained from personal attack or adopted the sort of civil tone to which I think the public debate sh...

The official word from Guantanamo: our motions hearing has been cancelled on account of Hurricane Sandy.  We'll have an update once we know more about future sessions.

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit filed a per curiam order in the case of Bahlul v. United States, ordering the parties to file briefs addressing the implications of t...