Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (Oct. 14-20)

ISIS, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen

• Amarnath Amarasingam, Jade Parker, and Charlie Winter, ISIS’s Vegas Claim Tells Us More about the Group Than About the Attacker
• Nadim Houry, What Next for Raqqa?
• Kate Brannen, On the Ground with FRONTLINE in Mosul and Yemen

Russia Investigation

• Ryan Goodman and Artin Afkhami, AG Sessions’ Shifting and False Statements to Congress on Russia
• Artin Afkhami, Sessions Changes his Story on Russian Contacts in Senate Testimony
• Artin Afkhami, Timeline of Trump and Obstruction of Justice: Key Dates and Events

Guantanamo Military Commissions and Legal Ethics

• David Luban, Indefensible: Why Guantánamo defense lawyers can’t ethically participate any longer

International Human Rights Mobilization

• Philip Alston, Human Rights in the Populist Era

Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy, and Encryption

• Kristen Eichensehr, Would the United States Be Responsible for Private Hacking?
• Jennifer Daskal, Where is Congress? The Supreme Court’s Cert in Microsoft Ireland Case Should Spur Lawmakers to Act
• Robyn Greene, Responsibility and the Encryption Debate: A Response to DAG Rosenstein
• Riana Pfefferkorn, The Rhetoric of “Responsible Encryption”
• Patrick Eddington, Surveillance “Reform”: The Fourth Amendment’s Long, Slow, Goodbye

Drone Strikes

• Luke Hartig, Pluses and Minuses of the Imminence Standard in Counterterrorism Strikes

Climate Change and Military Posture

• Mark Nevitt, Military Planning for the Climate Century

Presidential Pardon Power

• Joshua Geltzer, The Arpaio Decision: When the World Is Extraordinary But the Law is Ordinary

Civil-Military Relations

• Benjamin Haas, Widening the Gap: John Kelly and the Civil-Military Divide

Extraordinary Rendition

• Róisín Pillay, Exporting the Rendition Project: From the U.S. to Central Asia?

National Security Law Podcast

• Steve Vladeck, “Han Shot First”: Episode 41 of the National Security Law Podcast