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Secrecy---of the sort that typically shrouds cyber-defense and cyber-attack capabilities and doctrine---complicates the development of international norms. Secrecy makes it difficult to engage in sustai...
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Today an interagency review panel will hear, by video hookup, the case of Guantanamo detainee Ali Ahmad al-Razihi. The issue is whether the Yemeni's further detention is necessary to protect a continuin...
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As I wrote earlier this week, the big news recently in cyberspace was the announcement by the Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, that it planned to effect...
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A disturbing news item: it appears that Russian soldiers have killed at least one Ukrainian soldier at a Ukrainian military base in the Crimea, possibly heralding a violent resolution to the tense armed...
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When the Obama administration invoked the 1999 Kosovo intervention as a precedent in the run-up to the planned Syria invasion, I wrote a post that argued that Kosovo was not a precedent for lawful intern...
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Editor’s Note: Although the “Israel lobby” and the support of the American Jewish community for Israel have long received considerable attention, the U.S. evangelical community and its strong backing for...
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It is almost axiomatic in Washington, that the bureaucracy buries news of which it is not proud with a release late in the day on a Friday afternoon. Though it is a bit harsh to say so, one suspects tha...
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Worth noting: There have been four reported drone strikes in Yemen over the past two weeks. Long War Journal provides the details on the latest one here; LWJ's drone coverage in general is simply invalu...
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The slow-boil debate regarding the fate of the 2001 AUMF continues. The subject came up on March 11 when Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) Michael Lum...
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For the Motion:
Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Michael Lewis, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University School of Law
Against the Motion:
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Another belated post: last week, a district court in Maryland dismissed a ATS and TVPA lawsuit filed in 2011 by members of the Chinese Falun Gong a group of Chinese dissidents against Cisco Systems, the ...
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I am late in reporting that last month the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the ATS and TVPA suit against former President Zedillo of Mexico, based on the Suggestion of Immunity signed by my succ...