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D.C. District Judge Sides with CIA in Drone FOIA Case
A D.C. District judge ruled yesterday that the CIA can keep nearly all information related to its drone activities and the legal basis for them secret, reports Josh Gerstein of Politico. U.S. -
Eliminating the Afghanistan Exception to the Oversight Regime for Military Kill/Capture Ops
A little-noticed provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 might expand Congressional oversight of kill/capture operations conducted by the U.S. military. The change argua... -
The Functional Case Against Military Commission Trials of "Domestic" Offenses
As I explained on Sunday, one way to understand the diffference between the majority and dissenting opinions in last Friday's D.C. Circuit decision in al Bahlul v. United States is as reflecting two diff... -
An Overview of the DC Circuit’s Opinion in <em>Al Bahlul v. United States</em>
On June 12, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit handed down its decision in the most recent iteration of Al Bahlul v. United States, vacating defendant Ali Hamza Suliman al Bahlul’s conviction for in... -
Magna Carta, Due Process, and the Prohibition against Arbitrary Imprisonment or Killing
Eight hundred years ago today, English barons obliged King John to sign Magna Carta. In honor of the anniversary, I thought I might share a brief passage on the subject from my book manuscript (I'm in t... -
Latest Guantanamo Disposition Numbers
A useful chart courtesy of Covington & Burling showing the disposition of Guantanamo cases since the beginning of the Obama administration: -
The Attack on Belmokhtar and the Scope of the AUMF
It appears that the United States conducted an airstrike in Libya yesterday, targeting and killing Mokhtar Belmokhtar--a notorious Algerian terrorist who was once a member of GIA and GSPC, continued as a... -
Military Courts and Article III Functionalism: <br> What <em>Al Bahlul</em> Should Have Said
At their simplest, both Judge Henderson's 85-page dissent from the D.C. Circuit's decision in al Bahlul v. -
CIA Releases Declassified Documents Related to 9/11
The Central Intelligence Agency has released five newly declassified documents. The release states that each document related to a 2005 Office of Inspector General (OIG) report examing the Agency's accou... -
Department of Defense Releases Law of War Manual
The U.S. Department of Defense's Office of the General Counsel has released its long-awaited Law of War Manual. The greatly anticipated tome is the product of a multi-year effort by military and civilian... -
"Diplomatic Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Bosnia and Hercegovina," by Philippe Leroux-Martin
Published by Cambridge University Press (2014) -
"Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict," by William Boothby
Published by Oxford University Press, 2009
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