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Someone pointed out to me yesterday that in the recent Al Kandari cert petition, there is exactly one secondary source site: a Lawfare post. (See pp. vii and p. 12).
Neato.
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The narrow question presented in the Kiobel v.
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There's been a lot of buzz in the press on the plea bargain reached between Majid Khan and the prosecution in his Military Commission case--and a lot of it has focused on the mere four years before Khan ...
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Oral argument transcripts from the Supreme Court hearing this morning: Kiobel and Mohamad. Update: Opinio Juris is posting several posts and guest posts on the oral argument, including this one by Chim...
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The Kiobel case will be argued next Tuesday before the Supreme Court. I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post (headlined in the print edition "A Noble Cause That Goes Too Far") about the foreign poli...
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It is always an awkward spectacle when a court has to climb down, having issued an opinion that it has no real power to effectuate. That's what has now happened in the British Court of Appeals in the cas...
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Fayiz Mohammad Al Kandari, a Guantanamo detainee, has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in his habeas case. This comes after the D.C. Circuit denied his petition for en banc review in late Januar...
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This just in: the Office of Chief Defense Counsel in the Military Commissions asked the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Ethics Advisory Committee for an advisory opinion on whether defe...
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Ben's two questions in response to my post yesterday on the D.C.
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Steve is quite right that yesterday's decision in Al Zahrani is no surprise.
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With the Supreme Court scheduled to hear arguments over corporate liability in the Alien Tort Statute later this month, this short book chapter makes for a good, useful read. Dr. Eric De Brabandere is a...
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Given Ben's report on the oral argument, today's fairly cryptic D.C. Circuit opinion in al-Zahrani v. Rodriguez, throwing out a damages suit arising out of the deaths of several inmates at Guantanamo, is...