I. The 2016 Presidential Election
- Ryan Goodman, Trump’s CEO’s Smear Campaign Against Gold Star Father Khizr Khan – Headlines and Excerpts
(Tuesday, Aug. 23)
II. The International Criminal Court
- Alex Whiting, The Significance of the ICC’s First Guilty Plea (Tuesday, Aug. 23)
III. The Law of Armed Conflict and the ICRC Updated Commentaries
- Kenneth Watkins, The ICRC Updated Commentaries: Reconciling Form and Substance
(Wednesday, Aug. 24)
IV. Discrimination Against Veterans
- Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. Why Doesn’t the ABA Consider Discrimination Based on Military or Veteran Status to be an Ethics Violation? (Wednesday, Aug. 24)
V. Mass Surveillance and Privacy
- Jake Laperruque, A Problematic Pseudo-Category of Surveillance Information and Promising Post-Collection Policy (Thursday, Aug. 25)
V. Saudi Arabia and Yemen
- Alex Whiting, Are Saudi-led Coalition Forces Committing War Crimes in Yemen?
(Thursday, Aug. 25)
VI. AUMF against ISIL
- Marty Lederman, More on Captain Smith’s “Following Orders” Theory of Standing (and Little v. Barreme) (Monday, Aug. 22)