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Here is your moment of Not-Zen for the day (with thanks to my student Daniel). (With apologies to the senior editors of Lawfare for momentarily lowering the tone.)
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With the Supreme Court scheduled to hear arguments over corporate liability in the Alien Tort Statute later this month, this short book chapter makes for a good, useful read. Dr. Eric De Brabandere is a...
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[Update: Mary replies to this post here.]
Ben's commentary on Mary Dudziak's NYT piece has generated this reply from Mary, in which she raises several interesting questions. As a general proposition, I...
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I hope it is not snarkish to hope that by the time I hit "publish" on this post, the director of the National Constitution Center's "Peter Jennings Project," Todd Brewster, will have corrected his articl...
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In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facili...
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NPR had a story today concerning the process of selecting between civilian and military commission prosecution options. It's an important topic. Unfortunately, the story included the following mistaken...
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I have only flipped through the House Armed Services subcommittee report entitled, "Leaving Guantanamo: Policies, Pressures, and Detainees Returning to the Fight," and I find I have little to say about it.
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House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon released the following statement on the detainee recidivism report:
House Armed Services Committee Releases
Report on Risk Levels in the Release of Detainees fr...
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Back in March 2011, House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon and Ranking Minority Member Adam Smith instructed the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to examine transfers and releases of detai...
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An interesting ruling from the 9th Circuit yesterday in Ibrahim v. DHS (Judge W. Fletcher, joined by Judge Nelson, dissent by visiting Judge Duffy (the latter appearing by designation)).
Rabinah Ibrahim...
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Further to the prior exchange between myself and Kevin Jon Heller regarding allegations of drone strikes targeting persons in the context of funerals or post-strike rescue activity, Jens David Ohlin has ...
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The Governments of Germany, the