Recent Articles
Memorial Day
Just Security will be on an abbreviated schedule for Memorial Day with a lower volume of posts than normal. Be sure to check out a post later today by Marty Lederman on the declassification…
Recap: A Guide to Recent Posts on Just Security (May 17-23)
I. Future of the AUMF Harold Koh, Ending the Forever War: One Year After President Obama’s NDU Speech (Friday, May 23) Nathalie Weizmann, Guest Post: Summary of Key Developments…
Taking on “Killer Robots”
New weapons that could revolutionize killing are on the horizon. Lethal autonomous weapons systems, also called fully autonomous weapons or “killer robots,” would go beyond…
Ending the Forever War: One Year After President Obama’s NDU Speech
Today, May 23, 2014, marks the one-year anniversary of President’s important speech at the National Defense University (NDU) setting forth his proposed framework for post-9/11…
News Roundup and Notes: May 23, 2014
The News Roundup will be back on Tuesday morning, after Memorial Day. Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments…
NDAA Followup: Outcome on Amendments a Mixed Bag
Here’s a quick follow-up on what happened to the five proposed amendments to the House version of the FY2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that I flagged yesterday.…
David Barron and the OTHER missing memos
David Barron was just confirmed to the First Circuit. To secure that vote, the Administration announced it would not appeal the Second Circuit’s order to turn over a redacted…
Summary of Key Developments from Yesterday’s SFRC Hearing
[Editor’s Note: Nathalie Weizmann, an Associate Research Scholar and Senior Director of the Counterterrorism and Human Rights Project at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights…
Options for Accountability in Syria
The Security Council is poised today to vote on a resolution referring the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This would be the third such referral following…
Does the U.N. General Assembly have the authority to establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Syria?
By all accounts, the U.N. Security Council session this morning will not result in a referral of the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Because Syria…
News Roundup and Notes: May 22, 2014
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. Guantánamo Bay U.S. District…
The one news item from today’s AUMF hearing
Consistent with the President’s recent War Powers reports, DOD General Counsel Stephen Preston confirmed that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is the only “associated…