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Power Wars Symposium: The Savage Effect

Editor’s Note: This is the first entry in a symposium Just Security is hosting in conjunction with this week’s release of Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency by…

Nov. 2, 2015 Oona A. Hathaway

Human Shields in the DOD Manual: A New Mistake or an Old One?

Since the Defense Department published its new Law of War Manual, major media outlets have scrutinized its treatment of journalists while ignoring its treatment of ordinary civilians.…

Oct. 29, 2015 Adil Ahmad Haque

The Imperative of a “Drone Court”

With the recent release of The Intercept’s Drone Papers, it is an apt time to revisit the imperative of creating a check on an executive branch exercising lethal force without…

Oct. 28, 2015 Steven J. Barela

The Investigation Into the Islamic State and Chemical Weapons

Reports of the presumed use of chemical weapons — chlorine and more recently mustard gas — by Daesh (also know as the Islamic State) in Northern Iraq and Syria have appeared…

Oct. 27, 2015 Ralf Trapp

Honor, Morality, and the DOD Law of War Manual

As faithful readers of Just Security’s “mini forum” on the new DOD Law of War Manual may recall, Prof. Adil Haque and I sparred last summer over several of the manual’s…

Oct. 26, 2015 Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Kunduz Update

The Afghan government is doubling down on its strong insinuations that a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital that US and Afghan forces bombed in Kunduz on October 3 was a legitimate…

Oct. 26, 2015 Jonathan Horowitz

After the NDAA Veto: Now What?

This time, he’s serious. After all these years of unexecuted veto threats, on October 22, 2015, President Obama finally vetoed the $612 billion National Defense and Authorization…

Oct. 23, 2015 Harold Hongju Koh

Human Shields: The Weapon of the Strong

In a series of interventions, Adil Ahmad Haque and Charlie Dunlap have debated the Defense Department Law of War Manual’s position on human shields (here, here, and here). Claiming…

Oct. 22, 2015 Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini

The Latest Stumbling Block in the 9/11 Case: Self-Representation and Classified Evidence

Can a military commission defendant represent himself if he can’t see the classified evidence against him? That’s the outstanding issue in the 9/11 case taking place at the…

Oct. 20, 2015 Daphne Eviatar

Drone Disclosures, Official and Not

As readers of this blog already know, last week The Intercept published a series of fascinating stories about the US drone campaign. The stories, and the official documents that…

Oct. 19, 2015 Jameel Jaffer

The Significant Firsts of an ICC Investigation in Georgia

Yesterday the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed a request seeking authority from its Pre-Trial Chamber to begin an investigation into possible war crimes and/or…

Oct. 14, 2015 Alex Whiting

The Obama Administration’s Misguided Opposition to Tariq Ba Odah’s Request for Judicial Relief

On October 15, a federal district court in Washington, DC, will hear argument in Ba Odah v. Obama, a habeas challenge by a Guantánamo detainee whose prolonged hunger strike has…

Oct. 13, 2015 Jonathan Hafetz

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