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What it Really Means to “Close Guantánamo”

[Editors’ Note: 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…

Jan. 26, 2015 Steve Vladeck

The Gov’t of Sri Lanka Responds to my NYT Op-Ed on U.S. War Crimes Probe of ex-Defense Secretary

The government of Sri Lanka’s Justice Deputy Minister has responded to an Op-Ed that I published in the New York Times in which I described the reasons that the United States…

Jan. 23, 2015 Ryan Goodman

Assessing (Again) the Defensive Operations in Syria

The military operations against the Islamic State and Khorasan group in Syria have already received a lot of attention among international lawyers. The conversation has focused…

Jan. 22, 2015 Monica Hakimi

2 Years and 55 Prisoners To Go: It’s Time for a Lot More Guantanamo Review Boards

In 2001, Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah, a veteran of the war in Bosnia who’d joined up with al Qaeda in Afghanistan, landed in U.S. custody. Injured by a cluster bomb in the Afghan…

Jan. 21, 2015 Daphne Eviatar

How the U.S. Can Help Sri Lanka Turn the Corner—with a targeted war crimes prosecution

The Obama administration helped catalyze the United Nations’ ongoing efforts to bring accountability in Sri Lanka for mass war crimes committed in that country’s civil…

Jan. 20, 2015 Ryan Goodman

Al-Marri’s End and the Failed Experiment of Domestic Military Detention

In the coming days, Ali al-Marri, former enemy combatant, is scheduled to be released from federal criminal custody, clearing the way for his removal by immigration officials to…

Jan. 16, 2015 Jonathan Hafetz

Ongwen Onward to the Hague: Lord’s Resistance Army Commander to Face Justice

Media are reporting that Dominic Ongwen, the Joseph Kony deputy who defected last week from the Lord’s Resistance Army, will be transferred to the International Criminal Court…

Jan. 14, 2015 Beth Van Schaack

Is it Really Better to be Dead than Blind?

Late last year, the U.S. Navy announced that its $40 million laser weapon is finally ready for combat aboard the special operations staging ship USS Ponce. The laser, which “zaps…

Jan. 13, 2015 Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

The Shrinking Military Commissions

Yesterday’s news that the Convening Authority for the Guantánamo military commissions has “disapproved the findings and sentence,” and dismissed the charges…

Jan. 10, 2015 Steve Vladeck

ICC Fugitive In US Custody?

[An update to this post is available here, confirming Ongwen’s transfer to The Hague to stand trial]. Media and the US State Department spokeswoman are reporting that a man…

Jan. 6, 2015 Beth Van Schaack

The Arms Trade Treaty Enters Into Force

On Christmas Eve, the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT, text here) entered into force in record time following the attainment of 50+ ratifications. The ATT is the first multilateral treaty…

Jan. 5, 2015 Beth Van Schaack

The Three Legal Questions Left Unresolved by al-Libi’s Death

Just 10 days before his trial on terrorism charges was set to begin in Manhattan federal court, accused al Qaeda operative Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruquai, from Libya, better known…

Jan. 3, 2015 Phil Hirschkorn

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