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The Shutdown and the Guantánamo Transfer Restrictions

Although folks disagree over how big an obstacle it really is, one of the bigger political (if not legal) obstacles to transferring detainees out of Guantánamo (to other countries)…

Oct. 2, 2013 Steve Vladeck

Debate (Round 2): A Reply to Rona and Corn

This post is the final post in a series from Gabor Rona, Geoffrey Corn, and Just Security’s Derek Jinks. The debate addresses a fundamental question for US national security…

Oct. 1, 2013 Derek Jinks

Debate (Round 2): A Reply to Rona and Jinks

This post is one in a series from Gabor Rona, Geoffrey Corn, and Just Security’s Derek Jinks. The debate addresses a fundamental question for US national security law: What…

Oct. 1, 2013 Geoffrey S. Corn

Debate (Round 2): A Reply to Corn and Jinks

This post is one in a series from Gabor Rona, Geoffrey Corn, and Just Security’s Derek Jinks. The debate addresses a fundamental question for US national security law: What…

Oct. 1, 2013 Gabor Rona

Transparency on Targeted Killings: Promises Made, but Little Progress

Since President Barack Obama’s May 2013 counter-terrorism speech, attention to and criticism of US targeted killings practice and policy has notably dropped off inside the US. …

Oct. 1, 2013 Sarah Knuckey

Response to Kevin Jon Heller on War/Not War with Al-Qaeda

Last week, I wrote a post describing how opposition to US counterterrorism policies has vacillated over the past twelve years. I showed how arguments that the conflict with Al…

Oct. 1, 2013 Ryan Goodman

Debate (Round 1): Against the Notion of Competing Legal Frameworks in the “War on Terror”

This post is the third in a series from Gabor Rona, Geoffrey Corn, and Just Security’s Derek Jinks. The debate addresses a fundamental question for US national security law:…

Sep. 30, 2013 Derek Jinks

Debate (Round 1): The Military Component of Counter-Terror Operations

This post is the second in a series from Gabor Rona, Geoffrey Corn, and Just Security’s Derek Jinks. The debate addresses a fundamental question for US national security…

Sep. 30, 2013 Geoffrey S. Corn

Debate (Round 1): The ‘Lutte’ Against Terrorism

This post is the first in a series from Gabor Rona, Geoffrey Corn, and Just Security’s Derek Jinks. The debate addresses a fundamental question for US national security law:…

Sep. 30, 2013 Gabor Rona

Al Bahlul Argument Post-Mortem

If one thing was clear from this morning’s oral argument before the en banc D.C. Circuit in al-Bahlul v. United States, it was the consistent skepticism from at least five…

Sep. 30, 2013 Jennifer Daskal and Steve Vladeck

The Other, Lurking Constitutional Question in al-Bahlul

I would add only one thing to Jen’s thorough summary of the al-Bahlul argument next Monday, about something she references at the very end of her post: Besides ex post…

Sep. 27, 2013 Marty Lederman

Are the Press Reports of the Security Council’s Draft Syria Resolution Accurate? How weak or strong is it?

After weeks of diplomatic wrangling, the permanent members of the Security Council emerged last night with a compromise draft resolution on chemical weapons in Syria. The key part…

Sep. 27, 2013 Ryan Goodman

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