Armed Conflict

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Does the Administration consider the War Powers Resolution applicable in Iraq?

Some might think a recent report in the Washington Post provides significant information on the administration’s views on the applicability of the War Powers Resolution (WPR)…
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Cert. petition in Ali accepts Justice Breyer’s invitation

As I posted back in April, Justice Breyer issued a statement respecting denial of certiorari in the case of Hussain v. Obama in which he more or less invited Guantánamo habeas…
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UN Disarmament Board: New proposals to improve drone strike transparency and accountability

A new report of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (full text) contains a number of recommendations related to both autonomous weapons and current…
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Presidential Authority to Conclude an Iran Nuclear Agreement—and the Senate’s Self-Defeating Bill

The prospect of a successful conclusion to the ongoing negotiations with Iran over a nuclear deal promises to generate a debate over fundamental constitutional questions about…
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Did the U.S. drone strike and secretly compensate Yemeni civilians?

New documentary evidence has emerged indicating that the families of those killed in a controversial December 2013 U.S. strike in Yemen received upwards of $1 million dollars in…
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The Weapons Piece of the Proportionality Analysis in Gaza

Significant commentary (here and here) continues to be generated about proportionality and the legality of the use of force, including addressing the jus ad bellum (justification…
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Untold History of the Torture Program

In this morning’s Los Angeles Times, Larry Siems and I have an op-ed about the soldiers and public servants who tried to expose and end the torture program.  It begins: After…
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More focus on jus ad bellum in Gaza

More than 1900 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, hundreds of thousands are displaced and the material destructions are formidable. There have been several claims that Israel…
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Medical Repatriation of Aging Guantanamo Detainees: The case of Al-Adahi

Mohammed Al-Adahi, a Yemeni national who has been detained at Guantanamo for more than 12 years and was approved for conditional release in 2010, has been described by his lawyers…
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The important and difficult issues in the al-Nashiri case: When did the war begin? And was the COLE bombing a war crime?

The tragic bombing of the USS COLE by al Qaeda operatives in October 2000 was a heinous crime.  Even if it occurred as part of an armed conflict between the United States and…
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The ICRC’s Position on Human Shields (and Gaza)—A Reply to Professor Adil Haque

I agree with Professor Adil Haque’s description of the ICRC’s bifurcated position on voluntary human shields. I have accordingly added a note in my original post which now…
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Letter to the Editor: Human Shields in the DPH Guidance

[Editor’s Note: Ryan Goodman responds to Professor Haque’s letter to the editor in a subsequent post.] In his recent post, Ryan Goodman writes that the ICRC adopts the view…
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