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Miranda: Blame Parliament Before Blaming the Courts

In August 2013, David Miranda, partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was transiting through Heathrow, on his way from Germany to Brazil when he was detained and searched under…
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Disturbing Findings of the North Korea Commission of Inquiry

The Commission of Inquiry (COI) focused on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) released its first report this week.  The report is a monumental depiction of the…
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More Executive-Minded than the Executive

The English judiciary continues to show its habit of subservience to the government on security matters. In August 2013, David Miranda, who was carrying a hard disk with files…
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The Muhtorov Constitutional Challenge to Section 702

Jamshid Muhtorov is a lawful permanent U.S. resident and a criminal defendant in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, charged with providing material support to…
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Luban in NYRBlog: “Syrian Torture: What the US Must Do”

Earlier today, I posted a piece on the New York Review of Books Blog entitled “Syrian Torture: What the US Must Do,”  regarding the evidence of Syrian mass murder…
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President Bashir Is No Michelangelo

Earlier this week, President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, announced a “political…
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Noor Khan: A missed opportunity?

Last week, the English Court of Appeal gave judgment in R (Noor Khan) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (full text). The claim was brought in an attempt…
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Don’t Close Your Eyes to Surveillance Dangers: A Response to Richard Epstein

Richard Epstein’s office at the Hoover Institution is less than a mile from mine at Stanford Law School, and I’ve had the pleasure to hear Richard speak to the faculty on a…
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Security, Uncertainty, and the National Security Administration: The President Should Defend, Not Revise, Current NSA Procedures

The question of national security and its relationship to individual privacy has always provoked a challenge for persons with strong libertarian inclinations, who rightly embrace…
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A $15 Million Dollar Torture Partnership

It has been common knowledge for a while that Poland hosted a secret CIA prison where Abd al Rahim al Nashiri and other prisoners now held in Guantánamo were detained and tortured. …
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Reflections on Russia’s Hunt for “Black Widows”

Media sources are reporting heightened attention by Russian security services to the threat of female suicide bombers in the lead up to the Winter Olympics. As I recently reported…
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A “Right to be Forgotten”

Readers may be interested in a past decision of the Italian Court of Cassation adjudicating whether former convicted terrorists have a “right to be forgotten.” The decision…
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