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The DOD Law of War Manual and Command Responsibility: Is it Time for a “Necessary and Reasonable” Change to the UCMJ?
Editor’s Note: This post is the latest in Just Security’s “mini forum” on the new Defense Department Law of War Manual. This series includes posts from Sean Watts, Eric…
NY Times gets legislative and constitutional dynamic on Iran deal fundamentally wrong
John Harwood writes in the Times today: [T]he mechanism for congressional consideration, agreed on by Republican leaders and the White House, reverses the typical legislative…
The Gendered Dimension of High-Stakes Security Diplomacy – The Iran Deal from Another Perspective
This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (August 8-14)
I. Torture and the American Psychological Association Marty Lederman, What, Exactly, Does Yesterday’s American Psychological Association Resolution Prohibit? (Saturday, August…
Further on the constitutionality of the nonbinding Iran JCPOA (and the conspicuous absence of congressional disagreement about it)
For what it’s worth, and following up on my earlier post with Jack Goldsmith, over at Balkinization I’ve recently published a couple of posts–here and here–concerning…
The APA’s Watershed Move to Ban Psychologists’ Complicity in Torture
As Marty Lederman wrote about here, the APA Council of Representatives made waves on Friday by approving, with a near-unanimous vote, a resolution that (1) bans psychologists…
What, exactly, does yesterday’s American Psychological Association resolution prohibit?
By an overwhelming vote of 156-1 (with seven abstentions and one recusal)–so lopsided that it stunned even its proponents–the American Psychological Association’s…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (August 1-7)
I. Detention & Military Commissions Jonathan Horowitz, Guest Post: The Reason Why the UK Lost the Serdar Mohammed Case (Monday, August 3) Steve Vladeck, President…
Women, Peace and Security: A Review of the High Level Review
September 2015 marks the 15th Anniversary of the landmark UN Security Council Resolution (SCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. UNSCR 1325 prompted significant and important…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (July 25–31)
I. Detention Larry Siems, Guest Post: Skeptical of Guantánamo Diary? Question the US Government Instead (Tuesday, July 28) Nadia O’Mara, UK Court Invalidates British…
D.C. District Court to GTMO Detainees: War with Taliban Continues
Judge Lamberth handed down an opinion today denying the claim made by Guantnamo detainee al Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi (discussed by Marty here and here) that the conflict…
If You’re Teaching National Security / Counterterrorism Law Next Year…
One of the most exhilarating (and terrifying) things about teaching national security law is how thoroughly the field changes from year to year (and, lately, from month to month).…