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[Update - I've clarified some points below, at the bottom, in response to reader feedback]
Ben Emmerson QC is a British human rights law specialist who currently serves as the UN Human Rights Council's ...
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The Post ran an important story on Saturday, building on its earlier reporting concerning the development of a "disposition matrix" and other tools for the management of the counterterrorism enterprise. ...
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The American Society of International Law has released a new "ASIL Insight" on law applicable to autonomous weapon systems. (ASIL Insights are short, descriptive pieces on topical issues meant as non-te...
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What is the United States actually doing so far, and what else reportedly is on the table?
1. So far we have agreed to provide airlift support to the French, on their dime. That is, France is going to p...
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I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post entitled (in the print edition) "Aiding Syria: Easier said than done" in which I describe some of the international legal obstacles to intervening in Syria. H...
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in from The Hague with the following account of the Boundaries of the Battlefield symposium he has been attending there:
Although some members of Co...
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John Brennan, nominated by President Obama to become the next CIA director, will apparently face some tough questioning from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at his Senate confirmation hearings (reportedly set f...
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Former UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legal Adviser Daniel Bethlehem has just published an important piece in the latest issue of the American Journal of International Law. The article, entitled “Sel...
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Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations has just published this important report on U.S. drones policy. I disagree with Zenko on some aspects of it, but for now I want to summarize several of his...
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Back in October, I wrote about the claim in this Washington Post story that John Brennan supports shifting the CIA's operations involving the use of lethal force over to the military. Now that he is abo...
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Eric Posner and Alan Sykes have a new book entitled Economic Foundations of International Law. The book does what its title suggests: gives a comprehensive rational choice account of public internationa...
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Told you so. President Obama has signed this year's NDAA--along with a meek kind of signing (whining?) statement. Here is the statement's discussion of the detention-related provisions--an account of whi...