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Immunities and Criminal Prosecution within the United States & Beyond

The African Union’s controversial effort to grant sitting heads-of-state and “other senior state officials” immunity before the proposed new African criminal chambers (see…

Jul. 9, 2014 Beth Van Schaack

Social Science Data on Public Reactions to Drone Strikes and Civilian Casualties

One of the hats I wear is that of a social scientist. I don’t often write at Just Security in that capacity, but recent empirical research — on public attitudes toward…

Jul. 3, 2014 Ryan Goodman

The Stakes of al-Bahlul, Nine Months Later…

This past Monday marked nine months since the en banc oral argument in al-Bahlul v. United States, in which the D.C. Circuit is considering whether military commissions at Guantánamo…

Jul. 3, 2014 Steve Vladeck

Fifth Circuit on Extraterritorial Application of Fourth and Fifth Amendments

On the heels of this morning’s Fourth Circuit decision in the Abu Ghraib case comes another significant circuit-level decision–this one from the Fifth Circuit. The…

Jun. 30, 2014 Steve Vladeck

The importance (and difficulty) of the Stimson Task Force transparency recommendations . . . and a couple of legal corrections

Like Steve, I strongly recommend to Just Security readers the report on drone policy that the Stimson Task Force published yesterday. The report is very thoughtful and balanced,…

Jun. 27, 2014 Marty Lederman

Analysis of the Stimson Drone Task Force Report

The Stimson Center Drone Task Force report published yesterday is a forceful critique of key aspects of current U.S. drone strike policy and practice. Importantly, and unlike…

Jun. 27, 2014 Sarah Knuckey

Report and Recommendations from the Stimson Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy

Later this morning, the Stimson Center’s Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy is scheduled to formally release a report and series of recommendations to the Obama Administration…

Jun. 26, 2014 Steve Vladeck

You Can’t Have an “Associated Force” with No Core

There has been lots of commentary already on the newly-released (but heavily-redacted) OLC opinion, so I’ll focus mine on a key point I haven’t yet seen made. The OLC memo…

Jun. 24, 2014 Daphne Eviatar

The OLC’s Drone Memo and International Law’s Ascendance

The long-awaited release of the redacted July 16, 2010 OLC memo is anticlimactic in important respects. Much is still unknown to the point that it is difficult, if not impossible,…

Jun. 24, 2014 Ryan Goodman

On the Benefits of Transparency: Why So Long to Disclose Drone Memo?

Monday’s release of the previously secret July 2010 Justice Department memo laying out the legal case for killing US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, has sparked a wide range of reactions,…

Jun. 24, 2014 David Cole

Reflections on What the Drone Memo Does and Doesn’t Say

There is already a lot of commentary on the OLC drone memo, and likely more to come. Here, I just want to highlight three key issues that should be part of the mix: #1: Issues…

Jun. 24, 2014 Jennifer Daskal

The Constitutional Question the Drone Memo Didn’t—and Couldn’t—Answer

Yesterday’s release of the Office of Legal Counsel’s “drone memo” (which, at some point, we should stop referring to in the singular) has provoked an understandable…

Jun. 24, 2014 Steve Vladeck

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