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With Anwar al-Awlaki dead, one hears relatively little these days regarding the progress of events in Yemen in relation to AQAP and U.S.
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Thomas B. Nachbar is a most remarkable law professor. A few years ago, after having achieved wide recognition as a senior University of Virginia scholar known for his work in technology and regulation, ...
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The cert petition in Latif has been filed. So far, only the questions presented have been released publicly. They are as follows:
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Last week, Ben was perplexed by the government's reply in opposition to a motion for a preliminary injunction in a mysterious case brought by Mustafa al Hawsawi over Rear Adm. Woods' recent order regardi...
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The ICRC recently published this report on its visits to detainees being held in U.S. facilities in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Iraq, and South Carolina. The report opens:
Although terrorism is not new, Sta...
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If Ben needs something to tear into, there's also this--my guest post over at the ACSblog, which uses Judge Brown's disturbing rhetoric in Latif as a foil through which to evaluate this "anniversary." Re...
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Never fear, Ben! While the Times may have disappointed you today, NPR has stepped into the breach this morning with its Guantanamo anniversary story.
To be frank, I'm more than a little surprised by th...
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Here is Part II of Peter Margulies's reporting from AALS:
AALS Federal Courts Debate II: Military Commissions and Material Support
The lively federal courts panel at the American Association of Law Scho...
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law has sent in two accounts of panel discussions at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. Here is the first:
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And oddly, the notional issue seems to be abuses at the side of the facility already controlled by Afghan, not international, forces.
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The New York Times published two op-eds this weekend by former Guantánamo detainees -- one by Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, which extended a constitutional right to the wr...
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At one point prior to 2009, [Update: In my haste this morning, I erred by referring to 100,000 detainees in Iraq at a single point in time, when instead I meant to refer to the volume of detainees we hel...