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The False Choice of Opposing Torture or Endless War: A Response to Samuel Moyn

In a thoughtful guest post Samuel Moyn has continued and deepened a debate we began in the pages of the current issue of Dissent on the relative merits of opposing war itself and…

Oct. 13, 2015 David Cole

Toward a History of Clean and Endless War

It is idle — but interesting — to speculate on what future historians will say about our own time. True: We can never know, and would probably find ourselves shocked by what…

Oct. 9, 2015 Samuel Moyn

Public Access to Military Trials: The Increasingly Strange Case of Sergeant Bergdahl

I still don’t know what to make of the government’s case against Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (of Taliban detainee transfer fame) for charges of desertion and misbehavior before…

Oct. 8, 2015 Steve Vladeck

The Special Rapporteur on Torture’s Report on Extraterritoriality Speaks to Migrant Crisis

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan E. Méndez, has issued a new expert’s report (his 17th)—this one on extraterritoriality. (JustSecurity’s extensive…

Oct. 7, 2015 Beth Van Schaack

Amid Calls for UN Investigation Into Kunduz Strike, US Senator Suggests that the UN Does Not Investigate Taliban Abuses. He’s Wrong.

Today, following calls for an independent inquiry into the US airstrike on the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) – during a Senate Armed Services…

Oct. 6, 2015 Sarah Knuckey

Precision Weapons, Mistakes, and the Need for Transparency

This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…

Oct. 5, 2015 John Reed

Was the Kunduz Strike a War Crime?

As reports poured in over the weekend that the United States bombed a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing at least 12 MSF staff members and…

Oct. 5, 2015 Jonathan Horowitz

Rest Easy Professeurs de Trahison, You Are Not Targetable Under LOAC

William C. Bradford’s article Trahison des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamic Fifth Column, published last summer in George Mason Law School’s…

Oct. 1, 2015 Jason Coats

The Bass-Ackwards Detainee Transfer Provision in the FY2016 NDAA

There’s a lot to say about the 1,915-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2016 that was unveiled yesterday by the House and Senate Armed Services…

Oct. 1, 2015 Steve Vladeck

D.C. Circuit Grants Rehearing En Banc in al Bahlul (and Highlights My Poor Math Skills)

This afternoon, the D.C. Circuit granted rehearing en banc in al Bahlul v. United States, the constitutional challenge to the Guantánamo military commissions’ authority to try…

Sep. 25, 2015 Steve Vladeck

UK’s Legal Rationale for Drone Strikes Differs Fundamentally From US Rationale

Much of the public commentary concerning the UK’s targeted strike in Syria against a British national who had joined ISIS (along with other individuals with him at the time)…

Sep. 25, 2015 Kate Martin

Transitional Justice Deal Reached in the Colombian Conflict

Yesterday, the the Colombian government and FARC reached a preliminary agreement on transitional justice measures related to the conflict (here) in Havana, Cuba. This agreement…

Sep. 24, 2015 Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)

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