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Editor’s Note: Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring in December 2010, commentators have regularly described relations between Washington and Riyadh as strained at best and near collapse at worst. The po...
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Very interesting and thoughtful comments over at Just Security by Marty Lederman on Justice Breyer's brief opinion in the Hussain cert denial the other day. Marty writes:
As Justice Breyer notes . .
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Not sure how I missed this, but a Periodic Review Board has recommended the transfer to Yemen of Guantanamo detainee Ali Ahmad Al-Razihi. The summary of its findings reports that the board found Al-Razih...
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On Monday, a three-judge Second Circuit panel ordered the Obama administration to disclose a redacted copy of the Office of Legal Counsel memorandum outlining its legal justification for the targeted kil...
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As Ben noted this morning, the Second Circuit has ordered the release of a redacted version of the OLC memorandum that justified the targeted killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.
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I begin with a paragraph from Wikipedia:
Self-organized criticality is one of a number of important discoveries made in statistical physics and related fields over the latter half of the 20th century, di...
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Debate continues to swirl around the proposed transfer of control of the internet's naming function (IANA) to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). But one of the grounds of c...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed a lower court opinion and ordered the government to release key portions of the legal memos that lie behind the targeted killing of Anwar Al ...
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Editor’s Note: The recent events in Ukraine have dredged up memories of an era of great-power competition and territorial conquest driven by imperialistic ambitions that many observers believed had been ...
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In a surprising decision issued on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel, Judge Scheindlin held, in the long-running Apartheid litigation, that corporations may be sued under th...
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President Obama’s decision to deny a visa to Iran’s would-be Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Aboutalebi, is based on U.S. law dating back to 1947 and has numerous historical precedents. Although...
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Editor’s Note: Drone warfare and its many implications is a favorite subject for Lawfare readers. Yet even as the United States develops policies for the use of drones on and off the battlefield, it must...