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What Happens if American-Trained Rebels Commit War Crimes?
It is widely known that the US is facing numerous challenges in arming and training a select number of fighters as part of a group known as the “New Syrian Forces,” which are…
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…
News Roundup and Notes: August 18, 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 Syrian government…
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…
News Roundup and Notes: August 17, 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 Syrian government…
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…
The Dark Side of Peace Enforcement: Sexual Exploitation in CAR
Media reports continue to trickle through detailing rape and indiscriminate killing by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR). Despite condemnation by UN Headquarters…
Warrantless Phone Tracking: The Fourth Amendment and Circuit Splits
Last week, a divided three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled in United States v. Graham that the government must obtain a warrant to obtain from a phone user’s historical…
News Roundup and Notes: August 14, 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 suspects…
News Roundup and Notes: August 13, 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…
A Readers’ Guide to our Mini-Forum on DOD’s new Law of War Manual
As you’ve probably noticed this summer, we’ve been hosting a mini-forum on the Defense Department’s Law of War Manual that was published earlier this summer. As Marty Lederman pointed…
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…