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Just Security’s Summer Vacation Reading List
Just Security is on a reduced schedule this week for summer vacation, which means we will publish some commentary and analysis but at a lower rate than usual. Our pieces this week…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (August 7-11)
I. Afghanistan Laura Dickinson, A Legal and Policy Risk Analysis of the Erik Prince Plan to Privatize War in Afghanistan (Thursday, August 10) II. Foreign Intelligence Analysis:…
Bringing the AUMF Debate Back to its Constitutional Roots, and Recent History
A U.S. Army howitzer firing at Islamic State positions in Iraq in 2016. Last Friday, Rita Siemion published an insightful analysis of the Trump Administration’s first meaningful…
A Few Thoughts on the Manafort Raid
Alex Whiting has already written an excellent clarifying post on Wednesday morning’s news that the FBI had conducted an early morning raid of former Trump campaign chair…
No, the President Cannot Strike North Korea Without Congressional Approval
A CNN story on Wednesday asks: “Can the President launch a military strike on his own [on North Korea]?”–i.e., without further congressional authorization?…
D.C. Circuit Holds that 9/11 Appellate Judge Should Have Recused
In a curt and concise seven-page decision handed down this morning (one week after argument), a three-judge D.C. Circuit panel (Rogers, Tatel, & Griffith, JJ.) unanimously…
No, the U.S. Is Not Bombing ISIS Prisons on Some Theory Prison Labor Contributes to ISIS’s Economy
A recent post at Lawfare—titled “The Al-Mayadeen Prison Bombing and the Problem of War-Sustaining Targets”—suggests that the U.S. military may have struck a prison in Syria…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (July 29-August 4)
I. Transgender Military Ban Brenda S. “Sue” Fulton, Trump’s Trans Ban is Bad for Military Readiness (Thursday, August 3) Eugene R. Fidell, Your Tweet Is My Command (Monday,…
Fox’s Seth Rich Story, Don Jr’s Statement, and Legal Implications for the President
In the last 48 hours, the press has reported twice on the President’s, or the White House’s, involvement in putting out false or misleading information about Russia-Trump…
Representative Ted Lieu in Defense of Global Justice
As mentioned last week by Jane Stromseth in her terrific post “Why the U.S. needs the Office of Global Criminal Justice Led by a Senate-Confirmed Ambassador-at-Large,” the…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (July 23-28)
I. Government Lawyering Lisa Monaco, Help Wanted: Custodians for the Rule of Law (Friday, July 28) II. Trump Campaign – Russia Investigation Ambassador (ret.) Keith Harper, The…
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