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Guess what? They're still illegal outside of Afghanistan:
Targeted killing with drones in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan have generally violated the right to life because the United States is rarely part o...
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In response to my inquiry about drones that could capture rather than kill ("Robot Rendition?"), Greg McNeal writes in with these very illuminating comments on the technological prospects.
It probably g...
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One of the many difficulties that arise when a state employs its military to conduct operations within its own borders is the question of whether alleged abuses committed by the military should be tried ...
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With a hat tip to Bobby, I wanted to flag that the Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld the conviction of Sean Brehm, a non-citizen convicted under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA) for an...
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Over at the Emptywheel blog, the estimable Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has posted a transcribed excerpt of a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing dealing with Senator John Cornyn's proposal to com...
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Late on a Friday afternoon, I take a break from other work in order to bring you the following food-for-thought:
We often think about the policy and legal issues that will arise when the jump is made fr...
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As usual, Ellen Nakashima has the latest details in connection with the long-running debate over standing rules of engagement for CYBERCOM operations in connection with more active forms of defense, part...
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From Courthouse New Service:
Invoking the mass detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a federal judge on Tuesday appeared ready to uphold her injunction against the law that lets the U.S. ...
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U.S. Policy Toward Yemen
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I am on vacation, and blogging only minimally, so I missed this week's hearing before Judge Katherine Forrest on the plaintiff's request for a permanent injunction in Hedges. Seeing as how the argument t...
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Pepperdine law professor Greg McNeal, whose work Lawfare follows closely, is attending the 2012 North America exhibition of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (#AUVSI) in Las Vegas...
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Just noticed this: It seems that the Open Society Foundations has brought suit in the European Court of Human Rights against at least two Eastern European countries on behalf of suspected USS Cole bomber...