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Yesterday, I wrote about the consequences of congressional inaction over the next two months with respect to Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Today, I want to focus on another area where Congress is poise...
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Since last week’s announcement of a “framework agreement” on the Iranian nuclear program, I’ve been bothered by a handful of troublesome ambiguities.
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Twitter and YouTube have been blocked in Turkey. The move comes after the sites failed to comply with an order issued last week by the Istanbul First Criminal Courts of Peace to take down footage of an I...
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Editor’s Note: Since 9/11, the United States has sought to prevent terrorists from enjoying safe havens from which they can build their organizations and plot attacks. Yet the term “safe haven” means dif...
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For those who want the key primary source materials on yesterday's Iran nuclear deal, here they are.
The US Government issued a fact sheet on the parameters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JC...
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Yesterday there was a small ceremony at the International Criminal Court to mark Palestine becoming the 123rd State Party to the Rome Statute. For all the attention this event received, what might ultim...
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Remember these words the next time the New York Times runs a pious editorial decrying---with a spurious combination of selective facts and distorted law---some morally complicated aspect of U.S.
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We have not paid enough attention to the significance of the administration’s legal argument in support of the Bergdahl trade for President Obama’s goal of closing GTMO. The Article II logic in the admi...
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The recent “2014 Gaza War Assessment: The New Face of Conflict” deserves careful reading and consideration by all LOAC scholars and practitioners. The report was written by five richly experienced retir...
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This evening, at 6:45 pm, Intelligence Squared US is holding a debate on the resolution: "The president has exceeded his constitutional authority by waging war without congressional authorization." Argui...
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A British think tank called Policy Exchange has released a very interesting report on judicialization of British warfare. Entitled "Clearing the Fog of Law: Saving Our Armed Forces from Defeat by Judicia...
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Ten years ago today, on March 31, 2005, the U.N. Security Council adopted resolution 1593, which referred the situation in Darfur, Sudan, to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for investi...