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The Imperative of a “Drone Court”
With the recent release of The Intercept’s Drone Papers, it is an apt time to revisit the imperative of creating a check on an executive branch exercising lethal force without…
News Roundup and Notes: October 28, 2015
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. IRAQ and SYRIA The US…
Video: Obama’s Drone Legacy, A Conversation With Scott Shane
What will be the legacy of President Obama’s drone program? How will the next president use armed drones and targeted killings? What was the political and legal significance…
The Investigation Into the Islamic State and Chemical Weapons
Reports of the presumed use of chemical weapons — chlorine and more recently mustard gas — by Daesh (also know as the Islamic State) in Northern Iraq and Syria have appeared…
News Roundup and Notes: October 27, 2015
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. IRAQ and SYRIA The Pentagon…
The All Writs Act, Software Licenses, and Why Judges Should Ask More Questions
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…
National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, October 26–30
Below is a calendar of congressional hearings on national security matters for this week. Tuesday, October 27, 2015 9:30am – Senate Armed Services – United States Military…
Honor, Morality, and the DOD Law of War Manual
As faithful readers of Just Security’s “mini forum” on the new DOD Law of War Manual may recall, Prof. Adil Haque and I sparred last summer over several of the manual’s…
Kunduz Update
The Afghan government is doubling down on its strong insinuations that a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital that US and Afghan forces bombed in Kunduz on October 3 was a legitimate…
News Roundup and Notes: October 26, 2015
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. IRAQ and SYRIA An alliance…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (October 17–23)
I. Classified Information & Transparency Jameel Jaffer, Drone Disclosures, Official and Not (Monday, October 19) Marty Lederman, Bart Gellman at Purdue: Is It Lawful to…
After the NDAA Veto: Now What?
This time, he’s serious. After all these years of unexecuted veto threats, on October 22, 2015, President Obama finally vetoed the $612 billion National Defense and Authorization…