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I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years. Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...
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U.S. District Judge John Bates has entered the following order in Maqaleh, the case testing federal court habeas jurisdiction for detainees at Bagram:
MINUTE ORDER: The Court has received 81 petitioners'...
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Recent Harvard Law School grads William Marra and Sonia McNeil--authors of the first Lawfare Research Paper--have released a short Brookings briefing paper on the regulation of future drones in domestic ...
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The government has just posted a memorandum from March 12, 1945 in the Bahlul docket concerning the question of whether participation in a conspiracy to commit an offense against the law of war is punish...
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Haven’t read this yet, but U.S. v. Amawi, which came down yesterday, looks pretty interesting. The opinion is by Judge Danny Boggs, and while the disposition was unanimous, one of the judges wrote separa...
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On August 16, a judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a suit brought against the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, under the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim...
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Last week, D.C.
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Ben beat me to it, but this morning, the D.C Circuit issued a terse order removing United States v.
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This is interesting. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just entered the following docket order in the military commission appeal of Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul:
CLERK'S ORDER filed . . . , on the cou...
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The motions hearing that begins tomorrow in the 9/11 military commissions case is far too sprawling to preview motion by motion. Instead, we've broken it up thematically. Nearly all of the 25 motions on ...
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Over at SCOTUSblog, there's a terrific symposium underway to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Least Dangerous Branch, Alex Bickel's seminal work on the Supreme Court and judicial review.
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Here’s your read-out on this morning’s oral argument, before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, in what Lawfarers have come to know as the Guantanamo counsel access dispute. (Background can be found here, here...