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David Barron and the OTHER missing memos

David Barron was just confirmed to the First Circuit. To secure that vote, the Administration announced it would not appeal the Second Circuit’s order to turn over a redacted…
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5 Key NDAA Amendments to Watch For

Congress is considering the National Defense Authorization Act this week, and several proposed amendments in the House to this annual authorization bill would have significant…
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Is the CIA Drone Program More Accurate than the DOD’s—and if so, why?

Some commentators suggest that we have the data: CIA-directed drone strikes appear to involve fewer civilian casualties (e.g., less collateral damage) on average than DOD-directed drone…
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United States War Crimes Statute & Sri Lanka

Ryan Goodman’s post on Sri Lanka calls for the prosecution under U.S. law of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. In prior posts, we’ve discussed the way in which international crimes (including…
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Sri Lanka’s Greatest War Criminal (Gotabaya) is a US Citizen: It’s Time to Hold Him Accountable

Monday, May 19th marks the five-year anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, which claimed the lives of 40,000 to 70,000 civilians in its “catastrophic”…
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Governments Conclude First (Ever) Debate on Autonomous Weapons: What Happened and What’s Next

This week at the United Nations in Geneva, the 117 states parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) held the first inter-governmental debate on autonomous…
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The Limits of the Logic that the Power to Kill includes the Power to Detain

I will soon have a longer post on the UK High Court judgment in Mohammed v. Ministry of Defense, but here I want to consider a specific argument that implicates the authority of…
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Serdar Mohammed: A View onto U.S. Detentions

[Editor’s Note: This post is part of a“mini forum” hosted by Just Security that analyzes different elements of the judgment in Serdar Mohammed v. Secretary of State for…
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Backgrounder: Preliminary Examination into Abuses by United Kingdom Personnel in Iraq

As we reported earlier, the ICC Office of the Prosecutor has reopened the preliminary examination into crimes committed by United Kingdom personnel in Iraq from 2003-2008  during…
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Do women have anything to say about autonomous weapons? [Updated on October 25, 2016]

Update (October 25, 2016) — Mary Wareham of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots maintains a regularly updated “Binder of Women,” listing the names and bios of…
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Start of first inter-governmental expert meeting on autonomous weapons

Today, the 117 states parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) held their first expert meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems – weapons that can…
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Assessing Serdar Mohammed through the Prism of Derogation and Detention

Last week the High Court of England and Wales, per Mr Justice Leggatt, delivered a comprehensive judgment in Serdar Mohammed v. Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 1369 (QB). The case…
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