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“Ending the Forever War”: A Progress Report

This past May, President Obama gave an historic speech at the National Defense University framing his counterterrorism strategy. In that speech, he committed himself to a concept…

Oct. 28, 2013 Harold Hongju Koh

A New War?: The United States Involvement in Yemen’s Internal Armed Conflict [Updated]

In an op-ed in the Guardian last week, I argued that the United States appears to have become militarily directly involved in fighting a domestic insurgency in Yemen as an ally…

Oct. 28, 2013 Ryan Goodman

Kenya in a Global Non-International Armed Conflict Linked to September 11?

A brief recently filed by the President of Kenya before the International Criminal Court makes a provocative claim: Kenya is involved “in a war with radical Islamist groups”…

Oct. 26, 2013 Ryan Goodman

Invented (and Real) Criticisms of the Human Rights Watch Report on Targeted Killings in Yemen

The major reports by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) on targeted killings make valuable contributions to public debate (see Sarah Knuckey’s Guide to the…

Oct. 25, 2013 Ryan Goodman

Ghailani: Constitutional “Cross-Ruffing,” and Why I Worry…

I’ve now had a chance to read yesterday’s Second Circuit decision in Ghailani, affirming the conviction of the one terrorism suspect transferred from Guantánamo to…

Oct. 25, 2013 Steve Vladeck

Second Circuit Affirms Ghailani’s Conviction and Sentence

This morning’s Second Circuit decision unanimously affirming the conviction and sentence of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is not surprising, but it may well be significant, especially…

Oct. 24, 2013 Steve Vladeck

IHL, Transparency, and the Heyns’ UN Drones Report

In his critique of Christof Heyns’ new UN report on the right to life in the context of lethal drone strikes, Eric Jensen erects two straw men and then proceeds to knock them…

Oct. 23, 2013 Philip Alston

The Report of the UN Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial Executions: Law or Advocacy?

As has already been discussed in several postings, the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions has been published and deserves close attention. To the…

Oct. 23, 2013 Eric Jensen

Targeted Killings — The US Power to Kill and the Yemeni Power to Capture

[For Just Security’s other coverage of yesterday’s Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports on targeted killings, see Sarah Knuckey’s guide to the…

Oct. 23, 2013 Ryan Goodman

The Problematic “Belonging To” Analogy: A Response to Goodman

[Editor’s note: Ryan Goodman replies to Professor Heller in a subsequent post.] In a recent post here at Just Security, Ryan Goodman offered a novel – and characteristically…

Oct. 23, 2013 Kevin Jon Heller

The Charles Taylor Appeal & The Scope of Accomplice Liability

I earlier flagged the release of the Charles Taylor appeals judgment. This post deconstructs the opinion more closely in light of the Perišić precedent and also addresses the…

Oct. 22, 2013 Beth Van Schaack

Human Rights Groups Release Investigation Reports into US Targeted Killings: A Guide to the Issues

Today, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) released two detailed studies of US targeted killings in Yemen and Pakistan, putting forward specific evidence of…

Oct. 22, 2013 Sarah Knuckey

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