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The End of the M23, Will Justice Follow?

In the last few days, we have witnessed some important and welcome developments in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—a region of the world in desperate need of some…
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Pakistan Test Fires Missile to Take Down Drones

It might have been easy to doubt the veracity of the Pakistan government’s public protestations against US drone strikes in light of secret agreements between the two governments…
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Spy v. Spy?: The coming push to create an EU spy agency to counteract the NSA

In an interview on Monday, a senior EU official, Commissioner of Justice Viviane Reding unveiled, in broad brushstrokes, a proposal to create a spy agency to counteract the NSA.…
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Newsweek’s Wayward Cover Story on Snowden and Chinese Cyber Hacking

Newsweek’s current cover story, “How Edward Snowden Escalated Cyber War with China” by Kurt Eichenwald, is an important read. Eichenwald makes two claims: Snowden’s impact:…
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African Commission Emerges as New Forum in Quest for Justice for Rendition Victims

[This post is authored by Roxanne Moore (NYU LLM ’14), Daniella Raveh (NYU JD ’15), Meg Satterthwaite, Amanda Bass (NYU JD ’15), in Banjul, Gambia] Today, we appeared alongside…
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A Deus Ex Machina Postpones the Kenya Cases

Just a quick update to close the loop on a prior post.  There, we noted speculative press reporting that Western diplomats were considering options for delaying the Kenyatta and…
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We Are All Foreign Nationals — Even Orin Kerr

The always thought-provoking Orin Kerr has responded, on Lawfare, to my plea here for respecting the privacy rights of foreign nationals.  Kerr finds my arguments unpersuasive,…
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A World Court for Human Rights is Not a Good Idea

Regional courts have played an important role in addressing the challenges of reconciling the protection of national security and respect for human rights.  The European Court…
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Report to the General Assembly on Armed Drones and the Right to Life (or drones should follow the law, not the other way around)

[Editorial note: Last week, the United Nations discussed two major reports on drones. Just Security’s coverage included posts by Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman (here, here), Kevin…
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“The Juice Wasn’t Worth the Squeeze” in Kyrgyzstan Fuel Contracts

The Pentagon recently announced the end of its use of the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan for logistical support of the war in Afghanistan. The arrangement unraveled due to…
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Belonging to a Party to a Non-International Armed Conflict: A Reply to Kevin Jon Heller [Updated]

In a recent post, I argued that an unexplored and independent legal basis exists for the US practice of targeting “associated forces” of al-Qaeda: the rules governing armed…
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International Humanitarian Law v. International Human Rights

Note: December 19 “Early Edition” Readers – click here for John Sifton’s guest post, Torture Is Still on the Table. We apologize for the error in the link.…
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