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Killing a Cleric: Many More Questions Than Answers

Yesterday, Ryan wrote about the killing, presumably by US drone, of Ibrahim al-Rubaysan, an alleged leading cleric of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Ryan presumes that…

Apr. 16, 2015 Gabor Rona

Drone Strike Kills al-Qaeda Cleric in Yemen—But are clerics lawful military targets?

A U.S. drone strike has reportedly killed a leading cleric of al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen. A religious theologian, Ibrahim al-Rubaysh had risen to the level of top cleric or Mufti…

Apr. 15, 2015 Ryan Goodman

The Targeted Killing That Wasn’t: What We Can Learn From the Case of Mohanad Mahmoud al-Farekh

A 2009 US Air Force photo titled “Ready to hunt” shows an armed MQ-9 Reaper drone taxiing in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Almost two weeks ago, we learned from the Washington…

Apr. 14, 2015 Brett Max Kaufman

No Asking and No Telling – A Quick Thought on Stephen Preston’s Speech at ASIL

As Marty Lederman and Jennifer Daskel have already noted, the Department of Defense’s General Counsel Stephen Preston gave an extensive and lengthy keynote speech on Friday last at…

Apr. 14, 2015 Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)

Whatever became of the Votel transparency proposal concerning drone strikes in Yemen?

The Open Society Justice Initiative yesterday released a report alleging that nine U.S. drone strikes in Yemen between May 2012 and April 2014 each resulted in civilian casualties,…

Apr. 14, 2015 Marty Lederman

Defeating ISIS in Iraq: We Cannot Fight Evil With Evil

News of the “liberation” of Tikrit, the city nearby the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, from occupation by ISIS militants two weeks ago was a welcome advance in the war to destroy…

Apr. 13, 2015 Dan Saxon

Further thoughts on the Preston ASIL speech

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…

Apr. 13, 2015 Marty Lederman

Two Questions for Stephen Preston

As Marty has already written, the Department of Defense’s General Counsel Stephen Preston gave a speech tonight at the American Society of International Law “the Legal…

Apr. 11, 2015 Jennifer Daskal

European Legal (In)Action and the Ukraine Crisis

While political responses, dispersed with rhetoric flourishes, continue to be dispensed by European leaders reacting to the sustained crises that follow from Russian annexation…

Apr. 10, 2015 Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)

The Unreal Secrecy About Drone Killings

Last year, after concluding that many passages in the document “no longer merited secrecy,” the Second Circuit published a redacted version of the Justice Department’s July…

Apr. 9, 2015 Jameel Jaffer

Give the Nuclear Framework a Chance

Based on an initial reading, I believe the framework for a nuclear agreement with Iran is worth trying to develop into a concrete deal, as long as the US-led coalition stays tough…

Apr. 8, 2015 Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Guest Post: To Ban New Weapons or Regulate Their Use?

In January, I highlighted the apparent anomaly of international law’s ban on laser weapons that are “specifically designed … to cause permanent blindness” while permitting…

Apr. 3, 2015 Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

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