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New Paths to Accountability for Crimes in Syria and Iraq (Including ICC Jurisdiction Over Foreign Fighters)

Horrific crimes in Syria during the Syrian Civil War and more recent ones in Iraq have led to widespread frustration at the present lack of a clear accountability mechanism. …

Nov. 12, 2014 Jennifer Trahan

Due Process and Detention at Guantanamo: Closing the Constitutional Loopholes

The D.C. Circuit recently heard argument in Al Bahlul v. United States, where the defendant has made a series of constitutional challenges to the Guantanamo military commissions. …

Nov. 4, 2014 Jonathan Hafetz

Does International Law Matter?

Editors’ Note: The following post is the ninth installment of a new feature, “Monday Reflections,” in which a different Just Security editor will take an in-depth look…

Nov. 3, 2014 Daphne Eviatar

Gideon’s Army at Guantanamo

Despite enormous logistical and legal hurdles, defense attorneys for high value detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison, say they press on for the judgment of history,…

Oct. 30, 2014 Phil Hirschkorn

UN Panel: Blackwater Convictions are the “Exception, not the Rule”

Last week’s Blackwater convictions highlight an urgent need for an international treaty ensuring that private security contractors are held accountable if they commit human rights…

Oct. 29, 2014 Abby Zeith

The Blackwater Trial: Part 2 – Two Legal Issues

In the first part of this summary, we introduced the individuals in Blackwater’s Raven 23 team and set out their contrasting arguments about what took place at Nisour Square…

Oct. 27, 2014 James G. Stewart and Sara Gray

The Blackwater Trial: Part 1 – Two Factual Issues

Earlier this week, a jury in Washington D.C. convicted four Blackwater guards for a shooting at Nisour Square, Baghdad. The sniper Nicholas Slatten was convicted of premeditated…

Oct. 24, 2014 James G. Stewart and Sara Gray

Chemical Weapons and Secrecy: a Terrible Combination

Last week’s New York Times article detailing the fact that, between 2004 and 2011, American troops in Iraq “secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells…

Oct. 21, 2014 Faiza Patel

Military Commissions After Guantánamo

This Wednesday morning at 9:30 (EDT), a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Henderson, Rogers, & Tatel, JJ.) will hear oral argument in al Bahlul v. United States–a Guantánamo…

Oct. 20, 2014 Steve Vladeck

One More Thing on Goldsmith & Waxman

There is not much to add to my colleague Shalev Roisman’s response to Jack Goldsmith and Matthew Waxman’s essay in The New Republic arguing that it is President Obama, and…

Oct. 17, 2014 Brett Max Kaufman

Rejecting the Bush Comparison: A Response to Goldsmith & Waxman

Jack Goldsmith and Matthew Waxman have written an interesting essay on President Obama’s war powers legacy, boldly titled “Obama, not Bush, is the Master of Unilateral War.”…

Oct. 17, 2014 Shalev Roisman

The Third Time’s The Charm? SCOTUS CVSGs in Samantar

Amidst all the recent activity (and non-activity) at the Supreme Court this term, it might have been missed that the Court invited the Solicitor General to express the views of…

Oct. 15, 2014 Beth Van Schaack

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